Coral is an open-source tool that helps news organizations build better communities around their journalism. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install Coral on Debian Latest.
Before we proceed with the installation, let's update the system to ensure that we have the latest security patches.
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
Coral requires Node.js, MongoDB, and Redis to be installed on the server. Let's install these dependencies:
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_14.x | sudo bash -
sudo apt install -y nodejs
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv 0xd68fa50fea312927
echo "deb http://repo.mongodb.org/apt/debian buster/mongodb-org/4.4 main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org-4.4.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y mongodb-org
sudo apt install -y redis-server
We will use the Coral installer script to install Coral on the server. Let's download the script:
curl -o coral.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/coralproject/install/master/v1/install.sh
Let's make the script executable:
chmod +x coral.sh
Now, let's run the script to install Coral:
sudo ./coral.sh
The installer will ask you a few questions during the installation process, such as the domain name for Coral and the port numbers for MongoDB and Redis. Answer the questions as necessary.
After the installation is complete, start the Coral service:
sudo systemctl start coral
To check the status of the Coral service, run:
sudo systemctl status coral
By default, Coral listens on port 8080. To serve Coral on the default HTTP port (80), we need to use Nginx as a reverse proxy.
Let's install Nginx:
sudo apt install -y nginx
We need to create an Nginx configuration file for Coral:
sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/coral
Add the following configuration to the file:
server {
listen 80;
server_name example.com;
location / {
proxy_pass http://localhost:8080;
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
proxy_set_header Connection 'upgrade';
proxy_set_header Host $host;
}
}
Replace example.com with your own domain name.
Save and close the file.
Link the Nginx configuration file:
sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/coral /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
Test the configuration:
sudo nginx -t
If the configuration is valid, reload Nginx:
sudo systemctl reload nginx
Open your web browser and go to http://example.com, where example.com is the domain name that you configured. You should see the Coral login page.
In this tutorial, we learned how to install Coral on Debian Latest. Coral can help news organizations build better communities around their journalism.
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