BuddyPress is a free and open-source social networking software. It comes with various features, such as user profiles, activity streams, and user groups. If you want to install BuddyPress on Fedora CoreOS, follow these steps:
SSH into your Fedora CoreOS instance and update the system.
ssh <your_username>@<your_Fedora_CoreOS_instance_ip>
sudo dnf update -y
Install Apache, MariaDB, and PHP on the instance using the following command:
sudo dnf install httpd mariadb mariadb-server php php-mysqlnd php-gd php-xml php-mbstring php-intl php-opcache -y
Start and enable MariaDB and Apache services.
sudo systemctl enable mariadb
sudo systemctl enable httpd
sudo systemctl start mariadb
sudo systemctl start httpd
Create a new database and user for BuddyPress.
sudo mysql -u root -p
create database buddydb;
create user 'buddyuser'@'localhost' identified by 'password';
grant all privileges on buddydb.* to 'buddyuser'@'localhost';
flush privileges;
exit;
Download the latest version of BuddyPress from https://buddypress.org/about/.
cd ~
wget https://wordpress.org/wordpress-5.8.tar.gz
tar -zxvf wordpress-5.8.tar.gz
mv wordpress /var/www/html/buddy
Set the appropriate permissions for the BuddyPress folder.
sudo chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/buddy/
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/buddy/
Configure Apache to serve BuddyPress.
sudo nano /etc/httpd/conf.d/buddy.conf
Add the following configuration in the file:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName your.domain.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/buddy/
<Directory /var/www/html/buddy/>
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/buddy_error.log
CustomLog /var/log/httpd/buddy_access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Save and exit the file.
Restart Apache.
sudo systemctl restart httpd
Complete the BuddyPress setup by accessing your website on a web browser and following the installation wizard.
http://your.domain.com/
Congratulations! You have successfully installed BuddyPress on your Fedora CoreOS Latest.
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