Chyrp Lite is a lightweight and easy-to-use blogging platform that can be installed on many different web servers. Alpine Linux is a secure and reliable operating system that can be used as a base for web servers. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the steps of installing Chyrp Lite on Alpine Linux Latest.
Before starting, you need to have the following prerequisites:
Follow the steps below to install Chyrp Lite on your Alpine Linux server:
Go to the Chyrp Lite website (https://chyrplite.net/) and download the latest version of Chyrp Lite in ZIP format. You can either download it directly to your server or download it to your local machine and transfer it to your server using a Secure Copy (SCP) client.
$ wget https://github.com/xenocrat/chyrp-lite/archive/master.zip
Extract the downloaded ZIP file to your web server's document root directory. The document root directory is the root directory of your web server where your website content resides.
$ unzip master.zip -d /var/www/
Rename the configuration file and set the permissions for the cache and config directories inside the extracted Chyrp Lite directory.
$ cd /var/www/chyrp-lite-master/
$ cp cp_config.conf.php config.php
$ chmod 777 cache config
Edit the config.php file and provide the database details in the following code block:
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');
define('DB_NAME', 'chyrplite');
define('DB_USER', 'root');
define('DB_PASS', 'password');
Save and close the file.
Create a MySQL database and user for Chyrp Lite. You can do this via the command line or via a MySQL administrative tool such as phpMyAdmin.
$ mysql -u root -p
Enter password:
mysql> CREATE DATABASE chyrplite;
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON chyrplite.* TO 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
mysql> EXIT;
Replace password with a strong and secure password for your database user.
Finally, open your web browser and navigate to your server's IP address or domain name followed by the path of the extracted Chyrp Lite directory. For example, if your server's IP address is 192.168.1.100 and you extracted Chyrp Lite to /var/www/chyrp-lite-master/, you would navigate to http://192.168.1.100/chyrp-lite-master/ in your browser.
Follow the installation wizard to complete the installation of Chyrp Lite on your server.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Chyrp Lite on your Alpine Linux Latest server. You can now start creating blog posts and customizing your blog to suit your needs.
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