How to Install Web-Portal on Arch Linux

Web-Portal is a web-based application that allows you to manage your services and applications from a single interface. In this tutorial, we will walk you through the process of installing Web-Portal on Arch Linux.

Prerequisites

Before we start, you need to make sure that your Arch Linux server meets the following requirements:

• Arch Linux 64-bit operating system with the latest updates installed.
• A non-root user with sudo privileges.
• Node.js installed on your system.

Step 1: Installing Node.js

Web-Portal requires Node.js to be installed on your system. Run the following command to install Node.js on your Arch Linux system:

sudo pacman -S nodejs

After installation, verify the Node.js installation by running the following command:

node -v

This should output the Node.js version you just installed.

Step 2: Cloning the Web-Portal repository

You can clone the Web-Portal repository from Github using the git command:

git clone https://github.com/enchant97/web-portal.git

This will download the entire repository into a new directory named web-portal.

Step 3: Installing dependencies

Next, navigate to the web-portal directory and install all the dependencies required to run the application:

cd web-portal
npm install

Step 4: Configuring the environment variables

All the configuration settings for Web-Portal are stored in environment variables. You need to create a new .env file to store these variables. You can use any text editor of your choice to create this file.

nano .env

Copy the following contents into the file:

DATABASE_URL=sqlite:///database.sqlite
SESSION_SECRET=<some secret key>

Save the file and exit the text editor.

Step 5: Starting the Server

You can now start the Web-Portal server by running the following command:

npm start

This will start the server and you should see the following message in your terminal:

> web-portal@1.0.0 start /path/to/web-portal
> node server.js

Server listening on port 3000

You can now access the Web-Portal application by navigating to http://localhost:3000 in your web browser.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we walked you through the process of installing Web-Portal on an Arch Linux server. You can now use Web-Portal to manage your services and applications from a single interface.

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