Tutorial: Installing Atomia DNS on Arch Linux

Atomia DNS is a powerful and flexible DNS management system that can be used to manage large-scale DNS deployments. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing Atomia DNS on Arch Linux.

Prerequisites

• Arch Linux installed on the system
• Root access to the system
• Internet connectivity

Step 1: Installing Dependencies

Before we start the installation process, we need to install some dependencies which are required to run Atomia DNS:

sudo pacman -S mariadb mariadb-clients bind php php-fpm php-gd php-intl php-mbstring php-mysql php-pgsql php-sqlite php-xml gettext

Step 2: Adding Repository

We need to add the Atomia DNS repository to our system using the following command:

echo -e "[atomiadns]\nServer = https://packages.atomiadns.com/rpm/\$basearch/\n" | sudo tee /etc/pacman.conf.d/atomiadns.conf

Step 3: Import Public Key

Import the repository's public GPG key so we can verify the package signatures:

sudo pacman-key --recv-keys AD292C87009210C1D52425AFCBEBF04BCDC17A71
sudo pacman-key --lsign-key AD292C87009210C1D52425AFCBEBF04BCDC17A71

Step 4: Update Package Database

Update the package database to ensure that packages can be downloaded from the newly added repository:

sudo pacman -Syu

Step 5: Installing Atomia DNS and WebGUI

We can now install Atomia DNS and the WebGUI with the following command:

sudo pacman -S atomiadns atomiadns-webgui

Step 6: Starting Services

Now we can start the MariaDB and the PHP FPM Services:

sudo systemctl start mariadb systemd-php-fpm

Step 7: Initializing MariaDB

After the successful installation of MariaDB, we need to initialize the database with the following command:

sudo mysql_install_db --user=mysql --basedir=/usr/ --datadir=/var/lib/mysql

Step 8: Creating User and Database

To start using Atomia DNS, we need to create a database and user account. Enter the following commands:

sudo mysql -u root
CREATE DATABASE atomia;
CREATE USER 'atomia'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON atomia.* TO 'atomia'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
exit;

Step 9: Configuring Atomia DNS

We need to configure Atomia DNS using the atomiadns.conf file. Here is an example configuration file:

[settings]
apiurl = http://localhost/apidns/
apisecret = '
apigroup = dnsadmins
dburl = mysql://atomia:password@localhost/atomia
bindkeyfile = /var/named/run-root/etc/bind-keydata
bindconfdir = /etc/bind
bindrndcfile = /usr/sbin/rndc
bindrndcconfdir = /etc
bindversion = 9.11
doltversion = 0.19.7

Step 10: Starting Atomia DNS and WebGUI

Finally, we can start the Atomia DNS and WebGUI Services:

sudo systemctl start atomiadns atomiadns-webgui

Congratulations! You have successfully installed and configured Atomia DNS on Arch Linux. You can now start using Atomia DNS to manage your DNS infrastructure.

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