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XGQT.Org gallery

2026-07-01 :: art, blog, net, sigal

By: Maciej Barć

Sigal script
See also

My image gallery is up on xgqt.org/gallery.

It is a million times better than Instagram and also it has no likes or comments - that’s a feature!

I build it with Sigal which outputs to static HTML pages.

Sigal script

out="/var/www/xgqt.org/htdocs/gallery"
mkdir -p "${out}"
sigal build                         \
      --config ./sigal.conf.py      \
      --title Gallery               \
      ./pictures/ "${out}"          \
      "${@}"

Config

First let’s prepare a suitable nginx configuration file.

This one is pretty bare but it works well for our case:

worker_processes 1;
daemon off;
pid ./nginx/temp/nginx.pid;

error_log /dev/stdout info;

events {
    worker_connections 1024;
}

http {
    client_body_temp_path ./nginx/temp/client 1 2;
    proxy_temp_path ./nginx/temp/proxy;
    fastcgi_temp_path ./nginx/temp/fastcgi;
    uwsgi_temp_path ./nginx/temp/uwsgi;
    scgi_temp_path ./nginx/temp/scgi;

    server {
        listen 127.0.0.1:8080;
        server_name localhost;

        access_log /dev/stdout;
        error_log /dev/stdout info;

        root ./;

        location / {
            autoindex on;
        }
    }
}

Server config is set up for serving all static files from the current directory.

Startup

Preparation

Based on how you want to store _temp_path files it might be necessary to create (or clean up) additional directories, for example:

1 2	rm -r ./nginx/temp mkdir -p ./nginx/temp

Run in current directory

1	nginx -c ./nginx.conf -p ./

BTW, you may want to replace ./ with "$(pwd)" and occurrences in the config with static paths.

Bonus: other simple servers

Some of no-dependency-except-itself http servers it’s good to know about:

Python http.server

1	python3 -m http.server -b 127.0.0.1 8080

Busybox

1	busybox httpd -f -p 127.0.0.1:8080 -v

You can read more about configuring busybox’s httpd on OpenWRT docs.

Old Access Point

2020-09-02 :: hardware, linux, net