Mibew is a popular open-source live support chat system written in PHP and MySQL. It allows you to communicate with your website visitors in real-time.
In this tutorial, we will learn how to install Mibew on Alpine Linux latest version.
Before installing anything new, it is recommended to update the system. We will update our system by running the following command:
apk update && apk upgrade
Mibew is built on PHP and MySQL. To run Mibew, we need to install required packages. Run the following command to install required packages:
apk add nginx php7 php7-fpm php7-mysqli php7-json php7-xml php7-mbstring php7-gd php7-curl php7-zip php7-openssl php7-iconv
After installing required packages, we will now download the latest version of Mibew from the official website using the following command:
wget https://github.com/Mibew/mibew/releases/download/v3.2.2/mibew-apache_3.2.2.zip
Once the download is complete, we will extract the downloaded files using the following command:
unzip mibew-apache_3.2.2.zip
We can now move the extracted files to the web root directory. In this tutorial, we will move the files to /var/www/mibew using the following command:
mv mibew-3.2.2 /var/www/mibew
Mibew makes use of the webserver to serve its pages. In this tutorial, we will use the Nginx web server.
Open the Nginx configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf using your favorite text editor and append the following at the end:
server {
listen 80;
root /var/www/mibew;
index index.php;
server_name your_domain.com; # Change this to your actual domain
location / {
try_files $uri /index.php?$args;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php-fpm7.sock;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;
fastcgi_param QUERY_STRING $query_string;
include fastcgi_params;
}
}
Save and close the file.
Mibew requires PHP-FPM to run. We will configure PHP-FPM by opening the PHP-FPM configuration file /etc/php7/php-fpm.d/www.conf and making the following changes:
listen = 127.0.0.1:9000 and change it to listen = /run/php-fpm7.sock.listen.owner = nobody and change it to listen.owner = nginx.listen.group = nobody and change it to listen.group = nginx.listen.mode = 0660 and change it to listen.mode = 0666.Save and close the file.
Mibew stores its configuration in the file /var/www/mibew/configs/config.yml. Open this file and update the following settings:
host, username, password, and db under the database section according to your MySQL server configuration.webim_root_url under the webim section to the URL of your Mibew installation.Save and close the file.
We can now start our Nginx and PHP-FPM services using the following commands:
rc-service nginx start
rc-service php-fpm7 start
If the services start successfully, you should be able to access your Mibew installation from a web browser by navigating to http://your_domain.com (assuming your_domain.com is the domain name you configured in Step 4).
In this tutorial, we learned how to install Mibew on Alpine Linux latest version. Mibew is now ready to handle real-time communication with your website visitors.
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