XBackBone is a web application that allows you to share files and manage them in a web-based environment. In this tutorial, we will walk through the steps to install XBackBone on Arch Linux.
Before installing XBackBone on your Arch Linux system, you should have:
Before installing any new packages, it is always a good practice to update the system's package repositories to ensure all packages are up to date:
sudo pacman -Syu
To get XBackBone working, we need to install some packages that are required by XBackBone itself. These packages can be easily installed using the following command:
sudo pacman -S unzip curl nginx mariadb php php-fpm php-gd php-mbstring php-zip php-mysql
Note: mariadb is not required, but it can be used to store XBackBone's data.
Once all the required packages are installed, we can proceed to download and install XBackBone. We will download the latest stable version of XBackBone from the official website using the following command:
curl -LJO https://github.com/skynetservices/xbackbone/releases/download/v0.11.0/xbackbone-0.11.0.zip
After the download is complete, we need to extract the zip file using the following command:
unzip xbackbone-0.11.0.zip
We can now move the extracted files to our web server's document root (e.g., /var/www/html/):
sudo mv xbackbone-0.11.0 /var/www/html/
Make sure that the web server has read and write permissions on the directory:
sudo chown -R http:http /var/www/html/xbackbone-0.11.0
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/xbackbone-0.11.0
Now that XBackBone is installed, we need to configure the web server to serve the application. Here's an example configuration file for NGINX:
server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
server_name example.com;
root /var/www/html/xbackbone-0.11.0/public;
index index.php;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
}
}
Save the configuration file and restart the web server:
sudo systemctl restart nginx
Now, we need to create a database and a user for XBackBone to store its data. Log in to the MariaDB using the following command:
sudo mysql
Create a new database:
CREATE DATABASE xbackbone;
Create a new user and grant all permissions on the new database:
CREATE USER 'xbackbone'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON xbackbone.* TO 'xbackbone'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Use the following command to exit the MariaDB console:
exit;
The final step is to configure XBackBone to use the newly created database. To do this, go to the XBackBone installation directory (e.g., /var/www/html/xbackbone-0.11.0/) and copy the .env.example file to .env:
cd /var/www/html/xbackbone-0.11.0/
cp .env.example .env
Open the .env file using your favorite text editor and update the following parameters:
APP_URL=http://example.com
DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=xbackbone
DB_USERNAME=xbackbone
DB_PASSWORD=password
Save the file and exit the text editor.
To finish the installation, run the following command:
php artisan xbackbone:install
This command will set up the database schema and create the first administrator account for XBackBone. Follow the on-screen instructions to set up the administrator account.
Now that XBackBone is installed and configured, you can access it by opening a web browser and navigating to the URL where you installed it. In our example configuration, the URL would be http://example.com/.
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