Buddycloud is an open-source, real-time chat platform developed on the XMPP protocol. It provides a decentralized social network platform that allows users to interact with each other in real-time. In this tutorial, we will walk through the installation process of Buddycloud on Fedora Server.
Before we move onto the installation process, let's make sure that we have all the prerequisites installed:
First, we need to ensure that our Fedora Server is up to date. To do so, run the following command:
sudo dnf update -y
To run Buddycloud on our Fedora Server, we need a few packages. Install them using the following command:
sudo dnf install git npm postgresql-server postgresql-contrib postgresql-devel -y
Next, we need to install Node.js and NPM on our Fedora Server. We can achieve this by running the following commands:
sudo dnf install nodejs -y
sudo npm install -g npm
sudo npm install -g n
sudo n stable
We need to prepare a PostgreSQL database to use with Buddycloud. Here are the steps to create a new PostgreSQL database:
sudo postgresql-setup initdb
sudo systemctl start postgresql
sudo su postgres
createdb buddycloud
exit
sudo su postgres
psql -d buddycloud
create user buddycloud with password 'password';
grant all privileges on database buddycloud to buddycloud;
exit
We are now ready to clone the Buddycloud repository onto our Fedora Server. Use the following command to clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/buddycloud/buddycloud-server-java.git
Navigate to the cloned directory and then install the required dependencies by running the following command:
cd buddycloud-server-java
npm install
Now it's time to configure the Buddycloud server. In the same directory as the cloned repository, create a config.json file:
{
"server": {
"domain": "localhost",
"user": "buddycloud",
"database": "buddycloud",
"password": "password"
},
"xmpp": {
"domain": "localhost",
"componentSecrets": {
"localhost": "buddycloud"
},
"port": 5222
}
}
Replace the values in the config.json file with the appropriate ones for your configuration.
We are now ready to start the Buddycloud server. Start it by running the following command:
npm start
If everything went well, you should see the server start up successfully, and you can now access Buddycloud by visiting http://localhost:7070 in a browser.
Congratulations, you have successfully installed Buddycloud on your Fedora Server.
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