Anchr is an open-source, self-hosted bookmarking app that allows you to save and categorize your favorite links. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Anchr on Alpine Linux Latest.
Before we begin, you'll need:
Before installing any new packages on your system, it's essential to update the system's packages to ensure that you have the latest version of the software. To do so, run the following command:
apk update && apk upgrade
To run Anchr on your system, you'll need to install the following packages:
To install these packages, run the following command:
apk add git nginx php php-fpm php-sqlite3 sqlite
Now we need to download the Anchr source code from the official GitHub repository. You can use the following command to clone the repo via Git.
git clone https://github.com/anchorhost/anchr.git /var/www/anchr
This command will clone the Anchr repository to the /var/www/anchr directory on your system.
Anchr requires a webserver to run, and Nginx is one such server that is fast and easy to configure. First, create a new Nginx server block for Anchr with the following command:
nano /etc/nginx/conf.d/anchr.conf
Add the following configuration to the file:
server {
listen 80;
server_name example.com; # Replace with your domain name
root /var/www/anchr/public;
index index.php;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock; # Change the PHP version as per your installation.
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
}
Replace example.com with your domain name or server IP.
Save and exit the file.
You need to configure PHP-FPM with the following command:
nano /etc/php7/php-fpm.d/anchr.conf
Update the following options in the file:
user = nginx
group = nginx
listen = /run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock # Change the PHP version as per your installation.
Save and exit the file.
To create the SQLite database, run the following commands:
cd /var/www/anchr
touch database/anchr.sqlite
chown nginx:nginx database/anchr.sqlite
chmod 664 database/anchr.sqlite
Start the required services with the following command:
rc-update add nginx default
rc-update add php-fpm7 default
service nginx start
service php-fpm7 start
You can verify if services are running fine with the following command:
rc-status
Open your web browser and navigate to http://your-domain.com/ or http://ip-address/. You should see the Anchr login page.
In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install Anchr on Alpine Linux Latest with Nginx, PHP, and SQLite. You can use Anchr to manage your bookmarks, and it's an excellent alternative to other bookmarking services.
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