How to Install Orange Forum on Fedora CoreOS

Orange Forum is an open-source forum software that allows you to create online communities where members can discuss topics and interact with each other. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to install Orange Forum on the latest Fedora CoreOS.

Prerequisites

• A server running Fedora CoreOS.
• A non-root user with sudo privileges.

Step 1: Install Git

First, we need to install Git on our server:

sudo dnf install git

Step 2: Download Orange Forum

Next, let’s download the Orange Forum source code using Git:

git clone https://github.com/goodoldweb/orangeforum.git

Step 3: Install Dependencies

Orange Forum has several dependencies that we need to install before we can run it. We can install them using the following command:

sudo dnf install nodejs postgresql postgresql-server

Step 4: Set Up PostgreSQL

Before we can run Orange Forum, we need to set up a PostgreSQL database. We can do this by running the following commands:

sudo postgresql-setup --initdb
sudo systemctl start postgresql
sudo systemctl enable postgresql
sudo -u postgres psql

This will launch the PostgreSQL command-line interface. In the interface, we need to create a new user and a database for Orange Forum:

CREATE USER orangeforum WITH PASSWORD 'password';
CREATE DATABASE orangeforum OWNER orangeforum;

Once we’ve created the user and database, we can exit the PostgreSQL interface by typing:

\q

Step 5: Configure Orange Forum

Before we can run Orange Forum, we need to configure it to connect to our PostgreSQL database. To do this, we need to edit the .env file in the Orange Forum directory:

cd orangeforum
nano .env

In the .env file, we need to replace the following lines:

DB_NAME=orangeforum
DB_USER=orangeforum
DB_PASSWORD=password

with the following:

DB_NAME=orangeforum
DB_USER=orangeforum
DB_PASSWORD=<your_database_password>

Save and exit the .env file.

Step 6: Build and Run Orange Forum

Now, we can build and run Orange Forum using the following commands:

npm install
npm run build
npm start

This will launch Orange Forum. You can access it by going to http://localhost:3000 in your web browser.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we showed you how to install Orange Forum on the latest Fedora CoreOS. By following these steps, you should have a fully functional Orange Forum installation that you can use to create online communities.

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