This tutorial will guide you through the steps of installing Revive Adserver on EndeavourOS Latest. Revive Adserver is a free, open-source ad serving software that enables website owners, publishers, and advertisers to manage their ad campaigns easily.
Before installing Revive Adserver, you need to make sure that your system meets the following requirements:
First, update the package list on EndeavourOS by running the following command:
sudo pacman -Syu
Next, install the required packages for Revive Adserver by running the following command:
sudo pacman -S apache mariadb php php-apache php-gd php-imap php-intl php-mbstring php-pecl-imagick php-pecl-memcache php-xml phpmyadmin git
After installing the packages, it's time to set up the database. To configure the database, log in to the MySQL shell as the root user:
sudo mysql -u root
Create a new database and user for Revive Adserver:
CREATE DATABASE revive_db;
CREATE USER 'revive_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'revive_password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON revive_db.* TO 'revive_user'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
exit;
To download and install Revive Adserver, navigate to the /var/www/html/ directory:
cd /var/www/html/
Clone the Revive Adserver repository from GitHub:
sudo git clone https://github.com/revive-adserver/revive-adserver.git
Change the ownership of the Revive Adserver directory to the web server user (either apache or nginx):
sudo chown -R apache:apache revive-adserver/
Next, configure Apache to serve the Revive Adserver web page. To do this, create a new virtual host configuration file for Revive Adserver:
sudo nano /etc/httpd/conf.d/revive.conf
Add the following lines to the file:
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "/var/www/html/revive-adserver/www"
ServerName your_domain.com
ServerAlias www.your_domain.com
ErrorLog "/var/log/httpd/revive_error.log"
CustomLog "/var/log/httpd/revive_access.log" combined
<Directory "/var/www/html/revive-adserver/www">
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Save and close the file, and then restart Apache to apply the changes:
sudo systemctl restart httpd
Finally, complete the installation by visiting http://your_domain.com/install.php in your web browser.
Follow the instructions on the screen to install and configure Revive Adserver. When prompted for database credentials, enter the database name, username, and password that you created in step 2.
Once installation is complete, delete the install.php file and you are ready to start using Revive Adserver.
sudo rm /var/www/html/revive-adserver/www/install.php
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Revive Adserver on EndeavourOS Latest.
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