The photos folder

Ingle can show photos from a folder (a NAS share, say) alongside the ones uploaded in Admin › Photos. It only reads that folder, checks it for new photos every 10 minutes, and keeps resized copies in photo-cache/ next to the database. Admin › Photos says how many it’s found.

Add or remove those photos in the folder itself. They aren’t included in backups: they’re your own files.

With Docker Compose

Set PHOTOS_PATH=/mnt/nas/photos and INGLE_PHOTOS_DIR=/photos in .env, uncomment the photos line under volumes: in compose.yaml, then run docker compose up -d.

With plain Docker

Mount the folder read-only:

docker run -d --name ingle -p 8080:8080 \
  -v ingle-data:/data \
  -v /path/to/photos:/photos:ro -e INGLE_PHOTOS_DIR=/photos \
  ghcr.io/lukeskelhorn/ingle:latest

The files need to be readable by UID 65532, or by everyone.

Without Docker

Set INGLE_PHOTOS_DIR in /etc/ingle/ingle.env. A folder under /home needs a small change to the service first: see Without Docker.