Movim is a free and open-source decentralized social platform that offers instant messaging, audio, and video communication, and blogging features. In this tutorial, we will see how to install Movim on Alpine Linux Latest.
Before we begin with the installation, make sure that you have the following:
The first step is to update the package manager using the following command:
sudo apk update
To install Movim on Alpine Linux, we need to install some required dependencies. Run the following command to install git, composer, curl, php and some PHP extensions.
sudo apk add git php7 php7-dom php7-json php7-mbstring php7-mysqli php7-openssl php7-session php7-xml php7-curl composer curl
The next step is to clone the Movim Git repository using the following command:
git clone https://github.com/movim/movim.git /var/www/movim
Now, navigate to the /var/www/movim/ directory and install the required dependencies using Composer.
cd /var/www/movim
composer install
Movim requires a MySQL database to run, so we need to create a new database using the following command:
sudo mysql -u root -p
Now, enter your MySQL password and execute the following command to create a new database for Movim:
CREATE DATABASE movim;
We also need to create a new user and grant it all privileges to the newly created database using the following command:
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON movim.* TO 'movimuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
Make sure to replace the username and password with the one of your choice.
We are now ready to configure Movim. Navigate to the /var/www/movim/config directory and edit the config.ini file using your preferred text editor.
cd /var/www/movim/config
nano config.ini
We need to set the following values in the config.ini file:
mysql_host - Set the MySQL host value to localhost.mysql_username - Set the MySQL database username to movimuser.mysql_password - Set the MySQL password to the one you set in step 5.mysql_database - Set the database name to movim.base_url - Set the base URL of your Movim installation. For example, https://example.com/movim/.Save the changes and exit the file.
Lastly, we need to configure the Nginx web server to serve our Movim installation. Navigate to the /etc/nginx/conf.d directory and create a new configuration file.
sudo nano /etc/nginx/conf.d/movim.conf
Add the following contents to the file:
server {
listen 80;
server_name example.com;
root /var/www/movim/www/;
index index.php;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$request_uri;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_param GATEWAY_INTERFACE CGI/1.1;
fastcgi_param SERVER_SOFTWARE nginx;
fastcgi_param QUERY_STRING $query_string;
fastcgi_param REQUEST_METHOD $request_method;
fastcgi_param CONTENT_TYPE $content_type;
fastcgi_param CONTENT_LENGTH $content_length;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param REQUEST_URI $request_uri;
fastcgi_param DOCUMENT_URI $document_uri;
fastcgi_param DOCUMENT_ROOT $document_root;
fastcgi_param SERVER_PROTOCOL $server_protocol;
fastcgi_param REMOTE_ADDR $remote_addr;
fastcgi_param REMOTE_PORT $remote_port;
fastcgi_param SERVER_ADDR $server_addr;
fastcgi_param SERVER_PORT $server_port;
fastcgi_param SERVER_NAME $server_name;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
}
}
Make sure to replace example.com with your domain name or IP address.
Save the file and exit.
To apply the changes, restart the Nginx and PHP-FPM services using the following commands:
sudo service nginx restart
sudo service php-fpm7 restart
You have successfully installed Movim on Alpine Linux Latest. You can now access your Movim installation by visiting the base URL you set in step 6. Happy chatting!
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