# Chevereto-Free

Generated on 26 Mar 2024 from [the Chevereto-Free catalog page](https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/chevereto-free)

Chevereto-Free allows you to create a full-featured image hosting website on your own server. It’s your hosting and your rules, say goodbye to closures and restrictions.

This is the Chevereto-Free DigitalOcean Marketplace application, it provides Chevereto-Free ready to be one-click installed.

## Software Included

| Package | Version | License |
|---|---|---|
| [Chevereto-Free](https://github.com/chevereto/chevereto-free) | [latest](https://github.com/rodber/chevereto-free/releases/latest) | [AGPL-3.0-only](https://github.com/chevereto/chevereto-free/blob/master/LICENSE) |
| [PHP](https://php.net/) | [7.4](https://www.php.net/downloads) | [PHP v3.01](http://www.php.net/license/3_01.txt) |
| [Apache HTTP Server](https://httpd.apache.org/) | [2.4](https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/apache2) | [Apache 2](https://www.apache.org/licenses/) |
| [Certbot](https://certbot.eff.org/) | [0.39.0](https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/python3-certbot-apache) | [Apache 2](https://github.com/certbot/certbot/blob/master/LICENSE.txt) |
| [MySQL](https://www.mysql.com/) | [8.0.21](https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/mysql-server) | [GPL 2 with modifications](https://www.mysql.com/about/legal/licensing/oem/#5) |

## Creating an App using the Control Panel

Click the **Deploy to DigitalOcean** button to create a Droplet based on this 1-Click App. If you aren’t logged in, this link will prompt you to log in with your DigitalOcean account.

[![Deploy to DO](https://www.deploytodo.com/do-btn-blue.svg)](https://cloud.digitalocean.com/droplets/new?image=chevereto-cheveretofree)

## Creating an App using the API

In addition to creating a Droplet from the Chevereto-Free 1-Click App using the control panel, you can also use the [DigitalOcean API](https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/api). As an example, to create a 4GB Chevereto-Free Droplet in the SFO2 region, you can use the following `curl` command. You need to either save your [API access token](https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/api/create-personal-access-token/index.html.md) to an environment variable or substitute it in the command below.

```shell
curl -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
         -H 'Authorization: Bearer '$TOKEN'' -d \
        '{"name":"choose_a_name","region":"sfo2","size":"s-2vcpu-4gb","image":"chevereto-cheveretofree"}' \
        "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/droplets"
```

## Getting Started After Deploying Chevereto-Free

**In addition to the package installation, this one-click deploy also**

- Enables the UFW firewall to allow only SSH (port 22, rate limited), HTTP (port 80), and HTTPS (port 443) access.
- Sets the MySQL root password.
- Sets up the debian-sys-maint user in MySQL so the system’s init scripts for MySQL will work without requiring the MySQL root user password.

**Chevereto-Free Server Details**

Your Chevereto-Free website will be accessible at:

[http://your\_droplet\_public\_ipv4/](http://your_droplet_public_ipv4/)

This is an Apache HTTP server based provisioning. PHP runs with `mod_php` using `mpm_prefork`. You can run Chevereto-Free under any configuration, check our [documentation](https://chevereto-free.github.io/) for more information.

**Credentials**

The database credentials are at `/etc/apache2/envvars`. Root mysql password is at `/root/.mysql_password`.

**Extra-steps**

1. Provide HTTPS.

```
certbot --apache -d example.com -d www.example.com
```

1. Disable non-HTTPS access.

```
ufw delete allow 80/tcp
```

3. Secure MySQL.

```
mysql_secure_installation`
```

**Updates**

Chevereto-Free can update itself, simply open [http://your\_droplet\_public\_ipv4/dashboard](http://your_droplet_public_ipv4/dashboard) and click “check for updates” button.