Noosfero is a free and open-source social networking and content management platform. It is written in Ruby on Rails and is used for building community-centered websites, intranets, and extranets.
In this tutorial, we'll outline the steps required to install Noosfero on EndeavourOS Latest, a rolling release distribution based on Arch Linux.
Before proceeding with this tutorial, you'll need:
Before installing Noosfero, we need to install some necessary dependencies. These include a database management system, web server, and additional libraries.
To install MariaDB run:
sudo pacman -S mariadb
Following the installation, we will enable and start the MariaDB service.
sudo systemctl enable mariadb
sudo systemctl start mariadb
To install Apache and its dependencies, run:
sudo pacman -S apache
Following its installation, we will enable and start the Apache service:
sudo systemctl enable httpd.service
sudo systemctl start httpd.service
Finally, install Ruby on Rails and additional libraries by running:
sudo pacman -S ruby rubygems
sudo gem update
sudo pacman -S ruby-rails
sudo pacman -S libjpeg-turbo libpng libxml2 libxslt sqlite imagemagick libffi
To clone Noosfero's repository, make use of git.
git clone https://gitlab.com/noosfero/noosfero.git
cd noosfero
To install Noosfero's requirements and build any necessary assets, run:
bundle install
bundle exec rake noosfero:setup
Now we will create a new database for Noosfero.
mysql -u root -p
Enter your MariaDB root user password when prompted. Once at the MySQL prompt, we'll create a new database, a database user, and grant that user necessary privileges.
MariaDB [(none)]> CREATE DATABASE noosfero;
MariaDB [(none)]> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON noosfero.* TO 'noosfero'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
MariaDB [(none)]> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
MariaDB [(none)]> exit;
Replace "password" with a secure password of your choosing.
Now that Noosfero and its dependencies are installed, we need to configure it to run on our system.
To generate a sample configuration, run:
bundle exec rake noosfero:generate_configs
Next, modify the config/environment.rb file, and add the following lines at the end of the file:
config.action_mailer.default_url_options = { host: 'your-server-name' }
config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :smtp
config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {
:address => 'smtp.domain.com',
:port => 587,
:authentication => :plain,
:user_name => 'username@domain.com',
:password => 'password',
:enable_starttls_auto => true
}
Replace 'your-server-name', 'smtp.domain.com', 'username@domain.com', and 'password' with appropriate values.
Finally, we are ready to run Noosfero. To do so, we need to run the following command in the project directory:
rails server
For production deployments, we recommend running Noosfero using a process manager like systemd.
Once the server is running, open a web browser and navigate to http://localhost:3000/ to access Noosfero.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Noosfero on EndeavourOS Latest.
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