In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing ArchiveBox on Alpine Linux Latest. ArchiveBox is a powerful tool that allows you to archive websites and create a local, searchable archive of your web history.
Before we start, make sure you have the following prerequisites installed on your system:
First, we need to install the required dependencies for ArchiveBox. Open the terminal and enter the following command:
sudo apk add --no-cache curl git python3 postgresql postgresql-dev gcc musl-dev libxslt-dev libxml2-dev libffi-dev openssl-dev
Once the dependencies are installed, we can now proceed with downloading and installing ArchiveBox. Open the terminal and enter the following commands:
git clone https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox.git
cd ArchiveBox
sudo python3 setup.py install
Note: If you don't have Git installed, you can also download the archive from the ArchiveBox GitHub page and extract it manually.
Next, we need to set up a Postgres database for ArchiveBox. Open the terminal and enter the following commands:
sudo su postgres
psql
CREATE DATABASE archivebox;
CREATE USER archivebox WITH PASSWORD 'your_password_here';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE archivebox TO archivebox;
Replace 'your_password_here' with a strong and unique password for the ArchiveBox user.
Then exit the Postgres terminal by entering \q.
After setting up the Postgres database, we need to configure ArchiveBox to use it. Open the terminal and go to the ArchiveBox directory:
cd ~/ArchiveBox
Copy the example configuration file to archivebox.cfg:
cp docs/ExampleConfigs/postgresql.conf archivebox.cfg
Then edit archivebox.cfg using your preferred text editor:
nano archivebox.cfg
Under the [database] section, enter the following:
[database]
# ArchiveBox assumes you have a postgresql server running at host=127.0.0.1 port=5432
database_url = postgresql://archivebox:your_password_here@localhost/archivebox
Replace 'your_password_here' with the password you set up for the ArchiveBox user earlier.
Save the changes and exit the text editor.
Finally, we can run ArchiveBox using the following command:
archivebox manage init
archivebox server
This will initialize the ArchiveBox database and start the server. You can now access the ArchiveBox web interface by navigating to http://localhost:8000 on your web browser.
That's it! You have successfully installed ArchiveBox on Alpine Linux Latest. You can now start archiving websites and creating a private, searchable web history. For more information on how to use ArchiveBox, check out the official documentation on the ArchiveBox website.
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