Oddmuse is a wiki engine designed to support easy modification and extensibility. It is written in Perl and provides a simple, lightweight, and flexible platform for collaborative editing of pages. This tutorial will guide you through the installation process of Oddmuse on Debian latest.
Before you begin, you should have the following:
The first step is to update the system and packages to their latest versions. Run the following command in the terminal:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y
This command will update the repository and upgrade the installed packages to their latest versions.
Oddmuse is written in Perl and depends on some Perl modules. To install these dependencies, run the following command in the terminal:
sudo apt-get install perl libwww-perl libdatetime-perl libhtml-wikiconverter-perl libhtml-treebuilder-libxml-perl libfile-mimeinfo-perl libdigest-sha-perl libdigest-sha-perl libemail-address-perl
Oddmuse is not available in the Debian repositories, so we need to download and install it manually. Follow the steps below:
Download the latest version of Oddmuse from the official website using the command below:
wget https://oddmuse.org/files/odd/oddmuse-latest.zip
Unzip the downloaded file using the following command:
unzip oddmuse-latest.zip
Move the extracted directory to /usr/local/lib using the command below:
sudo mv oddmuse /usr/local/lib
Set permissions for the extracted directory:
sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/lib/oddmuse
Create a symbolic link to the main Oddmuse executable in /usr/local/bin using the following command:
sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/oddmuse/oddmuse /usr/local/bin/oddmuse
Oddmuse comes with a default configuration file, which you can customize according to your needs. The configuration file is located at /usr/local/lib/oddmuse/oddmuse.conf. Use your favorite text editor to open this file:
sudo nano /usr/local/lib/oddmuse/oddmuse.conf
Edit the file according to your requirements, then save and close it.
To start Oddmuse as a daemon service, create a startup script using the following command:
sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/oddmuse.service
Paste the following content into the file:
[Unit]
Description=Oddmuse wiki engine
After=network.target
[Service]
Type=simple
User=www-data
Restart=always
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/oddmuse -d /var/lib/oddmuse -p 8080
WorkingDirectory=/var/lib/oddmuse
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Save and close the file.
Start the Oddmuse service using the following command:
sudo systemctl start oddmuse
Enable the service to start on boot:
sudo systemctl enable oddmuse
Oddmuse is now up and running on your server. By default, it listens on port 8080. Open a web browser and access the URL http://your_server_ip:8080 to access your Oddmuse wiki.
In this tutorial, you have learned how to install and configure Oddmuse on Debian latest. Oddmuse is a flexible and lightweight wiki engine that can be customized for various use cases.
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