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How to Install Fider on Alpine Linux Latest

Fider is an open-source feedback platform that helps businesses and organizations to collect customer feedback, suggestions, and feature requests. In this tutorial, we will install Fider on Alpine Linux latest version.

Prerequisites

• A server running Alpine Linux latest version
• sudo access
• Docker and Docker Compose installed

Step 1: Install Docker

First, we need to install Docker on our Alpine Linux server. Docker is a containerization platform that allows us to run applications in isolated environments.

To install Docker, run the following commands:

sudo apk update
sudo apk add docker
sudo rc-update add docker boot
sudo service docker start

Step 2: Install Docker Compose

Next, we need to install Docker Compose. Docker Compose is a tool that allows us to define and run multi-container Docker applications.

To install Docker Compose, run the following commands:

sudo apk update
sudo apk add docker-compose

Step 3: Clone the Fider Repository

Now, we need to clone the Fider repository. Fider is hosted on GitHub, so we'll use git to clone it.

To clone the repository, run the following command:

git clone https://github.com/getfider/fider.git

Step 4: Configure Fider

Before we can run Fider, we need to configure it. Fider uses environment variables to specify configuration options.

Create a new .env file in the fider directory by running the following command:

cd fider
cp sample.env .env

Open the .env file using a text editor, and modify the following options:

• FIDER_DB_HOST: The hostname of your MySQL server (use localhost if the server is on the same machine).
• FIDER_DB_USER: The username for your MySQL database.
• FIDER_DB_PASSWORD: The password for your MySQL database.
• FIDER_DB_NAME: The name of the MySQL database to use for Fider.
• FIDER_HOST: The hostname or IP address that Fider should bind to.
• FIDER_PORT: The port that Fider should listen on (default is 3000).

Save and close the file.

Step 5: Start Fider

Now that we've configured Fider, we can start it using Docker Compose.

To start Fider, run the following command:

docker-compose up

If everything is configured correctly, Fider should start successfully. You can verify this by visiting http://<fider-host>:<fider-port> in your web browser.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Fider on Alpine Linux Latest using Docker.

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