Coral is a set of open-source tools for journalism and community building. It offers features such as commenting, moderation, and analytics. In this tutorial, we will go through the steps to install Coral on Alpine Linux Latest.
Before we begin, make sure you have the following requirements:
First, we need to install the necessary dependencies to build and run Coral. Run the following command:
sudo apk add --no-cache git make nodejs npm
Coral requires a MongoDB database to store comments and other data. We will install it using apk. Run the following command:
sudo apk add --no-cache mongodb
Start and enable the MongoDB service:
sudo rc-service mongodb start
sudo rc-update add mongodb
We need to clone the Coral repository to our server. Run the following command:
git clone https://github.com/coralproject/talk.git
Go to the cloned directory and install Coral using npm:
cd talk
npm install
Coral uses environment variables to configure its settings. We will create a .env file in the talk directory and set the following variables:
DB_HOST=localhost
DB_PORT=27017
DB_NAME=talk
Now we can start Coral with the following command:
npm start
Coral will listen on port 3000. You can access it in your web browser at http://localhost:3000.
In this tutorial, we have installed Coral on Alpine Linux Latest. You can now configure it according to your needs and start using its features for community building and discussion on your website.
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