Octave Online is a web-based integrated development environment (IDE) for Octave, a free and open-source numerical computation software. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the installation process of Octave Online on Alpine Linux Latest.
Before we begin, please make sure that you have the following:
To ensure that we are installing the latest version of Octave Online and all its dependencies, we need to update our package repository first. Open your terminal and run the following command:
sudo apk update
Octave Online relies on several packages and libraries to operate correctly. We need to install all these dependencies before proceeding with the installation.
In your terminal, execute the following command:
sudo apk add bash nginx php7 php7-fpm php7-curl php7-json php7-mbstring php7-opcache php7-openssl php7-session php7-xml php7-zip
This command will install the necessary packages and modules. Wait for the installation to complete before moving on to the next step.
Now that we have all the dependencies, we can proceed with the installation of Octave Online. In your terminal, execute the following commands:
sudo mkdir /var/www/octave-online
cd /var/www/octave-online
sudo git clone https://github.com/octave-online/octave-online.git .
sudo chown -R nginx:nginx /var/www/octave-online
sudo chmod -R 775 /var/www/octave-online
These commands will create the directory for Octave Online and download the source code from the official GitHub repository.
We need to make some changes to our PHP and Nginx configurations. Open your Nginx configuration file by running the following command:
sudo nano /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
Locate the server block and add the following line inside the location / block:
try_files $uri /index.php?$query_string;
Save and exit the file. Then, open your PHP configuration file by running:
sudo nano /etc/php7/php-fpm.conf
Find the user and group directives, and ensure that they point to nginx instead of apache. Replace them with the following lines:
user = nginx
group = nginx
Save the file and exit.
Next, we need to start Nginx and PHP-FPM services by running the following commands:
sudo rc-service nginx start
sudo rc-service php-fpm7 start
After starting the services, confirm that they are running correctly by executing:
sudo rc-service --list | grep nginx
sudo rc-service --list | grep php-fpm7
In your web browser, navigate to your server's IP address or domain name. You should see the Octave Online login page. If you encounter errors, check your configuration files and ensure that all the necessary services are running.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Octave Online on your Alpine Linux Latest instance. You can now start using Octave Online in your web browser to execute numerical computations and develop scripts.
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