LibreServer is a self-hosting web tools platform based on the LibertyBundle tools collection. It provides an all-in-one solution for hosting websites, email servers, instant messaging servers, and file shares among others. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing LibreServer on Arch Linux.
LibreServer uses Docker to deploy its applications, so we need to first install Docker and Docker Compose on Arch Linux.
sudo pacman -Syu
sudo pacman -S docker
sudo systemctl start docker
sudo systemctl enable docker
sudo pacman -S docker-compose
docker --version
docker-compose --version
Next, we need to clone the LibreServer repository:
sudo pacman -S git
git clone https://github.com/Libreserver/Libreserver.git
cd Libreserver
Before we can start the LibreServer services, we need to configure them by creating a .env file. LibreServer provides a sample .env file that we can use:
cp .env.sample .env
nano .env
In the file, you can modify the values of various parameters such as the domain name, email server credentials, and database credentials.
Finally, we can start LibreServer by running the start script:
sudo ./start.sh
This will start the Docker containers and run the necessary services.
You can access LibreServer by opening a web browser and going to the URL https://<your-domain-name>/
. You should see the LibreServer login screen.
Congratulations, you have successfully installed LibreServer on Arch Linux! You can now start using the various self-hosting web tools provided by LibreServer.
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