Wallabag is an open-source software that allows users to save articles from the web to read later. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing Wallabag on EndeavourOS.
Before we begin, make sure that your system meets the following prerequisites:
We will start by installing the required dependencies for Wallabag. Open up a terminal window and run the following command:
sudo pacman -S php php-gd php-intl php-pgsql php-mysql php-curl php-xml php-pear composer
You may be prompted to enter your root password. Enter your password and wait for the installation to complete.
Next, we will download Wallabag from the official website. Open a web browser and navigate to the Wallabag website and click on the "Download" button under the Latest version.
Once the download is complete, extract the contents of the downloaded archive to the document root directory of your web server. For example, if you are using Apache on EndeavourOS, you can extract the contents to the /var/www/html directory:
sudo unzip wallabag.zip -d /var/www/html
Now that Wallabag is installed, we need to configure it. Navigate to the location where you extracted Wallabag and rename the .env.dist file to .env:
cd /var/www/html/wallabag
sudo mv .env.dist .env
Open the .env file with a text editor and modify the following lines to match your setup:
APP_ENV=prod
APP_SECRET=your_secret_key_here
DATABASE_URL=pgsql://user:password@host:port/database_name
MAILER_URL=smtp://localhost:25
Replace your_secret_key_here with a secret key that you generate. You can use any random string of characters for this.
Replace user, password, host, port, and database_name with the credentials for your PostgreSQL database. If you have not set up a PostgreSQL database yet, you can use the following command to install it:
sudo pacman -S postgresql
Enter your root password when prompted and wait for the installation to complete. Then, start the PostgreSQL service and enable it to start at boot:
sudo systemctl start postgresql
sudo systemctl enable postgresql
Finally, create a new PostgreSQL user and database by running the following commands:
sudo su - postgres
createuser --interactive
createdb wallabag
exit
Replace wallabag with the name of your database.
Wallabag requires several dependencies which can be installed using Composer. Navigate to the location where Wallabag is installed and run the following command:
cd /var/www/html/wallabag
sudo composer install --no-dev
In order to run Wallabag, we need to set the correct permissions for the files and directories. Run the following command to set the required permissions:
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/wallabag
sudo chmod -R 775 /var/www/html/wallabag/var/
sudo chmod -R 775 /var/www/html/wallabag/public/
Finally, we need to configure the web server to serve Wallabag. If you are using Apache, create a new virtual host configuration file by running the following command:
sudo nano /etc/httpd/conf/extra/httpd-wallabag.conf
Add the following configuration to the file:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName wallabag.example.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/wallabag/public
<Directory /var/www/html/wallabag/public>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/wallabag_error.log
CustomLog /var/log/httpd/wallabag_access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Replace wallabag.example.com with the domain name or IP address where you want to access Wallabag.
Finally, restart the Apache service to apply the changes:
sudo systemctl restart httpd
That's it! You have successfully installed Wallabag on EndeavourOS and configured it to use your PostgreSQL database. You can now access Wallabag by navigating to the domain name or IP address you specified in your web server configuration.
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