webtrees on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS by cloudimg

webtrees is a mature open source online collaborative genealogy application. It gives you and your family interactive family trees, pedigree and descendancy charts, individual and family records, reports, media galleries, and per user accounts, all through a clean web interface, so relatives can explore and contribute to a shared family history from any browser. This image is built and maintained by cloudimg on a hardened, fully patched Ubuntu 24.04 LTS base, with webtrees 2.2 served by nginx and PHP 8.3 and a bundled local MySQL 8.0 server, so the appliance is complete and useful on its own within minutes of launch.

The database schema is built and the first administrator is created for you, so there is no manual database import or setup wizard, and a small demo family tree is imported so the pedigree charts are populated the moment you sign in. Unique MySQL, application database and administrator passwords are generated on the first boot of every VM and written to a root only file, so no shared or default passwords ship in the image, and the administrator is a real database backed account with a hashed password rather than a known default. Public self registration is disabled by default.

The image is ready for a bare IP address: webtrees uses a host only session cookie, so signing in works over the VM public IP with no browser cookie rejection, and the base URL is set from the instance address at first boot. The bundled MySQL listens only on the loopback interface and is never exposed to the network, and nginx serves the site on port 80. Browse to the instance address, sign in, then import your own GEDCOM files or start building your family tree. For production, front port 80 with your own domain and TLS.

webtrees is free and open source software distributed under the GNU General Public License version 3. This image is an independent packaging of the open source webtrees software by cloudimg and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by the webtrees project or its maintainers. Backed by 24/7 cloudimg support.