Installing Serendipity on Alpine Linux Latest

Serendipity is a popular blogging software that can be easily installed on Alpine Linux Latest. Follow the steps below to get Serendipity up and running on your Alpine Linux system.

1. Install Apache and PHP

The first step is to install Apache and PHP on your Alpine Linux system. You can do this using the following command:

apk add apache2 php7 php7-apache2

2. Install Serendipity

Download the latest version of Serendipity from https://docs.s9y.org/. Once you have the zip file, extract it to your Apache web directory, which is located at /var/www/localhost/htdocs/ by default:

unzip serendipity-2.3.5.zip -d /var/www/localhost/htdocs/

3. Configure Apache

Next, you need to configure Apache to serve Serendipity. Open the Apache configuration file with your favorite text editor:

nano /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

Add the following lines to the end of the file:

LoadModule php7_module modules/libphp7.so
<FilesMatch \.php$>
    SetHandler application/x-httpd-php
</FilesMatch>

Save and close the file.

4. Configure Serendipity

Serendipity comes with a sample configuration file that you can use as a starting point. Copy the sample file to serendipity_config_local.inc.php:

cp /var/www/localhost/htdocs/serendipity/config.inc.php /var/www/localhost/htdocs/serendipity_config_local.inc.php

Then, edit the configuration file to fit your needs. You will need to set the $serendipity['db'] and $serendipity['dbName'] variables to match your database configuration.

5. Create the Database

Create a new database for Serendipity:

mysql -u root -p -e "CREATE DATABASE serendipity;"

You will need to replace root with the username of your MySQL user and serendipity with the name you want to give your database.

6. Install the Database Tables

Finally, you can install the database tables for Serendipity:

mysql -u root -p serendipity < /var/www/localhost/htdocs/serendipity/bundled-libs/compatibility/mysql/s9y_create_tables.sql

7. Access Serendipity

You can now access Serendipity by visiting your server's IP address in your web browser. For example:

http://192.168.0.100/serendipity/

Conclusion

That's it! You should now have Serendipity up and running on your Alpine Linux Latest system. You can now start creating blog posts and customizing your site to suit your needs.

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