OMV8 - sample Photoprism yml

ruudm · Aug 14th 2026

After spending a lot of searching (photoprism help, community) and trying to get the Photoprism plugin to work (not) I have come up with a yml (thx to chat) which I wanted to share. It is only for normal, easy and light use, maybe if I have figured out howto connect to a MariaDB it might be better. Anyhow.... it is way better then Nextcloud photos!

Code

services:
  photoprism:
    container_name: photoprism
    image: photoprism/photoprism:latest
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - 2342:2342
    security_opt:
      - seccomp=unconfined
      - apparmor=unconfined
    volumes:
      - ${{ sf:"appdata" }}/photoprism/storage:/photoprism/storage 
      - ${{ sf:"media" }}/fotomap:/photoprism/originals #path to stored original photos
    environment:
      - PUID=${{ uid:"appuser" }}
      - PGID=${{ gid:"users" }}
      - TZ=${{ tz }}
      - PHOTOPRISM_UPLOAD_NSFW=true
      - PHOTOPRISM_ADMIN_PASSWORD=password

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jgyprime · Aug 15th 2026

I gave up on photoprism some time ago because my "photo folder" is big (over 600k photos and movies and a lot of duplicates).

For example, the cache folder reached 170 gb and it indexed a little over half of the photos, when it stopped indexing with some errors that did not point me to any solution.

But I will try again, maybe with your config, some magic happens and it starts working.

ruudm · Aug 15th 2026

You definitely need MariaDB, SQLite, MariaDB or MySQL?

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The main advantage of SQLite is that you don't need to run a separate database server. It is therefore well suited for testing and can also be sufficient for small libraries with a few thousand files. If you are looking for scalability and high performance, it is not a good choice.

ryecoaaron · Aug 15th 2026

Quote from ruudm

I have come up with a yml

I added your yml as an example to the compose plugin. Thanks.

larrybob · Aug 22nd 2026

Thanks I am going to try this. Just to understand:

- ${{ sf:"media" }}/fotomap:/photoprism/originals #path to stored original photos

The above is pointed to my source drive of photos/videos which is about 300gb

- ${{ sf:"appdata" }}/photoprism/storage:/photoprism/storage

I have a separate SSD (about 60gb) for my containers for config files. If I point to my SSD, will this fill up pretty quickly?

The first part says 'appdata' but the second part refers to storage

ruudm · Aug 22nd 2026

I followed this guide for setting up OMV8 Docker and explains the use of appdata.

Size of my fotomap is 108 GB, size of my appdata/storage is 11 GB, about 10%.

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