In this tutorial, we will guide you through the installation process of Hubzilla on Arch Linux. Hubzilla is a powerful decentralized social network and communication platform that allows you to communicate and share content with your friends and followers easily.
So, let's get started with the installation process.
The first step before installing any package is to update your Arch Linux system to the latest packages. Open your terminal and execute the following command:
sudo pacman -Syu
This will update your system to the latest packages and will ensure you have all the necessary dependencies required for installing Hubzilla.
Hubzilla requires a web server, PHP, and a database server to function correctly. We will be using Apache web server, PHP, and MariaDB. To install these packages, execute the following command:
sudo pacman -S apache php php-apache mariadb
This will install all the packages required for running Hubzilla.
After installing Apache web server, you need to restart the Apache service. Execute the following command to restart Apache:
sudo systemctl restart httpd
Now that you have installed all the necessary packages, the next step is to install Hubzilla. You can download the latest version of Hubzilla from the official website (https://hubzilla.org/).
You can either download Hubzilla manually or use the git command to download it. Here is an example of downloading Hubzilla using git:
git clone https://framagit.org/hubzilla/core.git hubzilla
This will download Hubzilla to the hubzilla folder in your current directory.
Before you can install Hubzilla, you need to create a database for it. Execute the following command to create a database:
sudo mysql -u root -p -e "CREATE DATABASE dbname;"
Replace dbname with the name of your database.
Next, you need to create a user for Hubzilla to access the database. Execute the following command to create a user with full privileges:
sudo mysql -u root -p -e "CREATE USER 'username'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';"
Replace username with your desired username and password with your desired password.
After creating a user, you need to grant privileges to the user to access the database. Execute the following command to grant all privileges to the user:
sudo mysql -u root -p -e "GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON dbname.* TO 'username'@'localhost';"
Replace dbname with the name of your database and username with the username you created in the previous step.
After creating the database and user, you need to configure Hubzilla. Rename the boot.php.sample file to boot.php with the following command:
cd hubzilla
cp boot.php.sample boot.php
Next, open the boot.php file and enter your database credentials:
const DB_HOST = 'localhost';
const DB_NAME = 'dbname';
const DB_USER = 'username';
const DB_PASS = 'password';
Replace dbname, username, and password with your database credentials.
Now that you have configured Hubzilla, the next step is to install it. Open your browser and navigate to the following link:
http://localhost/hubzilla/
This will start the installation process for Hubzilla. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation process.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Hubzilla on Arch Linux. You can now use Hubzilla to communicate, share content, and connect with your friends and followers.
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