Antville is a free, open-source content management system that allows users to create and manage a blog or website. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Antville on EndeavourOS Latest.
Before installing Antville, make sure your system meets the following requirements:
Antville is a Java-based application, so you need to install Java Runtime Environment (JRE) on your system.
Open the terminal and update the package list by running the following command.
sudo pacman -Syu
Now, install the JRE package.
sudo pacman -S jre-openjdk
Verify the installation of JRE by running the following command.
java -version
You should see the Java version installed on your system.
Antville requires a Java-based web server to run, so we will install the Tomcat server.
Install the Tomcat package by running the following command.
sudo pacman -S tomcat
By default, Tomcat is installed in /usr/share/tomcat directory. Verify the installation of Tomcat by running the following command.
sudo systemctl status tomcat
You should see the status of Tomcat service as active.
Now, download the Antville installation package from the official website.
wget https://github.com/antville/antville/releases/download/1.2.1/antville_1.2.1.tar.gz
Extract the downloaded package.
tar -zxvf antville_1.2.1.tar.gz
Copy the extracted antville-1.2.1 directory to the Tomcat webapps directory.
sudo cp -r antville-1.2.1 /usr/share/tomcat/webapps/antville
Open the server.xml file in the Tomcat conf directory.
sudo nano /etc/tomcat/server.xml
Find the following section:
<Host name="localhost" appBase="webapps"
unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true">
Add the following section just below it.
<Context path="/antville" docBase="/usr/share/tomcat/webapps/antville/" crossContext="true">
<Resource name="jdbc/antville" scope="Shareable" auth="Container"
type="javax.sql.DataSource"
driverClassName="org.postgresql.Driver"
url="jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/antville"
username="antville"
password="antville"
maxActive="20"
maxIdle="10"
maxWait="-1"/>
</Context>
Save and close the file.
Restart the Tomcat service to apply the changes.
sudo systemctl restart tomcat
Antville stores its data in a PostgreSQL database. Install the PostgreSQL database.
sudo pacman -S postgresql
Initialize the PostgreSQL database.
sudo su - postgres -c "initdb --locale $LANG -E UTF8 -D '/var/lib/postgres/data'"
Start the PostgreSQL service.
sudo systemctl start postgresql.service
Create a new user and database for Antville.
sudo -u postgres createuser -d -l -P antville
sudo -u postgres createdb -E UTF8 -O antville antville
Import the Antville database schema.
sudo -u antville psql -f /usr/share/tomcat/webapps/antville/sql/postgres/antville-schema-create.sql antville
sudo -u antville psql -f /usr/share/tomcat/webapps/antville/sql/postgres/antville-schema-data.sql antville
Now, open your browser and navigate to http://localhost:8080/antville.
You should see the Antville welcome page.
To login to the Antville admin panel, navigate to http://localhost:8080/antville/admin.
Use the default username and password to login:
Congratulations! You have successfully installed and configured Antville on EndeavourOS Latest.
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