PixelFed is a free and open-source federated social media platform, which allows users to share photos and videos in a decentralized manner. In this tutorial, we will discuss how to install PixelFed on EndeavourOS latest.
To install PixelFed on EndeavourOS, you will need the following:
Before installing any new packages, we need to update the system packages to their latest version. To do that, run the following command:
sudo pacman -Syu
To install PixelFed, we need to install some dependencies on our system. Run the following command to install required packages:
sudo pacman -S curl git mariadb mcrypt nginx openssl php php-fpm php-gd php-intl php-mbstring php-mysqlnd php-redis redis
Composer is a dependency manager for PHP. We will use Composer to install PixelFed dependencies. Run the following command to install Composer:
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
After installation, move the "composer.phar" to the "bin" directory and create a symbolic link.
sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/composer /usr/bin/composer
Now, we are ready to install PixelFed. Go to the web directory of your server.
cd /var/www
Clone the PixelFed repository from Github.
sudo git clone https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed
Move to the pixelfed directory.
cd pixelfed
Use the composer to install PixelFed dependencies.
sudo composer install
After the installation is complete, create a new file named ".env" in the root directory.
sudo cp .env.example .env
Edit the ".env" file and update the following parameters with your system values:
...
APP_ENV=production
APP_DEBUG=false
DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=pixelfed
DB_USERNAME=pixelfed
DB_PASSWORD=your_db_password
APP_URL=https://your_domain_name
...
Note: Replace "your_db_password" with the actual password of your MySQL or MariaDB database.
Generate an application key for PixelFed.
sudo php artisan key:generate
Run the migrations to create the necessary database tables.
sudo php artisan migrate
Run the seeders to populate the database with initial data.
sudo php artisan db:seed
Change the ownership of the web directory and give it the necessary group permissions.
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/pixelfed
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/pixelfed
Now, we need to configure the web server to serve the PixelFed application. In our case, we will configure the Nginx web server.
Create a new server block file for PixelFed, like this:
sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/pixelfed.your_domain_name.conf
Insert the following Nginx configuration:
# Redirect HTTP traffic to HTTPS
server {
listen 80;
server_name pixelfed.your_domain_name;
return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri;
}
server {
listen 443 ssl;
server_name pixelfed.your_domain_name;
root /var/www/pixelfed/public;
index index.html index.htm index.php;
charset utf-8;
client_max_body_size 100M;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.sock;
}
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/pixelfed.your_domain_name/fullchain.pem;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/pixelfed.your_domain_name/privkey.pem;
ssl_trusted_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/pixelfed.your_domain_name/chain.pem;
}
Note: Replace "your_domain_name" with your actual domain name.
After creating the server block file, we need to enable it. To do that, use the following command:
sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/pixelfed.your_domain_name.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
Verify the Nginx configuration.
sudo nginx -t
If there are no errors, reload the Nginx service.
sudo systemctl reload nginx
Now, open your web browser and navigate to the following URL:
https://pixelfed.your_domain_name
You will see the PixelFed login page. Create a new account and start using PixelFed.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed PixelFed on EndeavourOS latest.
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