Installing Quizmaster on Fedora Server Latest

Quizmaster is an open-source platform for creating and conducting quizzes online. In this tutorial, we'll show you how to install Quizmaster on Fedora Server Latest.

Prerequisites

Before installing Quizmaster on Fedora Server Latest, make sure that your system meets the following requirements:

• Fedora Server Latest with a non-root user with sudo privileges
• Apache or any other web server (nginx, lighttpd, Cherokee)
• PHP version 5.5 or higher
• MySQL or MariaDB

Step 1: Install Required Packages

First, you need to install some required packages on your Fedora Server. Open the terminal and run the following command to update your system's packages:

sudo dnf update

After updating your system, you can install the required packages by running the following command:

sudo dnf install php php-mysqlnd php-intl php-xml mariadb-server mariadb httpd

Step 2: Install Composer

Composer is a package manager for PHP that we'll use to install Quizmaster's dependencies. To install Composer, run the following command in your terminal:

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php -- --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer

Step 3: Clone Quizmaster's Repository

Now that you have Composer installed, you can clone Quizmaster's repository from Github by running the following command in your terminal:

cd /var/www/
sudo git clone https://github.com/nymanjens/quizmaster.git

Change the ownership of the files to the Apache user:

sudo chown -R apache:apache /var/www/quizmaster

Step 4: Run Composer

Now, in the Quizmaster directory, run the following command to install Quizmaster's dependencies:

cd /var/www/quizmaster/
sudo composer install --no-dev

Step 5: Configure MySQL or MariaDB

Create a database and a user for the Quizmaster installation:

mysql -u root -p

CREATE DATABASE quizmaster;
CREATE USER quizmaster@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON quizmaster.* TO quizmaster@localhost;

Step 6: Configure Quizmaster

In the Quizmaster directory, copy the .env.example file to .env:

cd /var/www/quizmaster/
sudo cp .env.example .env

Edit .env and set the database settings:

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=quizmaster
DB_USERNAME=quizmaster
DB_PASSWORD=password

Also, set the APP_URL variable to your domain or IP address:

APP_URL=http://your-domain.com/

Step 7: Migrate and Seed the Database

Finally, in the Quizmaster directory, run the following command to migrate the database:

cd /var/www/quizmaster/
sudo php artisan migrate

Then, run the following command to seed the database with some sample questions:

sudo php artisan db:seed

Step 8: Update the Web Server Configuration

Next, you need to update the web server configuration to point to the Quizmaster installation directory.

For Apache, create a new Virtual Host file and add the following configuration:

sudo vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/quizmaster.conf

Add the following configuration:

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName your-domain.com
  DocumentRoot /var/www/quizmaster/public

  <Directory /var/www/quizmaster>
    AllowOverride All
  </Directory>

  ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/quizmaster_error.log
  CustomLog /var/log/httpd/quizmaster_access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

For nginx, create a new server block in your configuration file:

sudo vi /etc/nginx/conf.d/quizmaster.conf

Add the following configuration:

server {
  listen 80;
  server_name your-domain.com;

  root /var/www/quizmaster/public;
  index index.php;

  location / {
    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
  }

  location ~ \.php$ {
    fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.sock;
    fastcgi_index index.php;
    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
    include fastcgi_params;
  }

  error_log /var/log/nginx/quizmaster_error.log;
  access_log /var/log/nginx/quizmaster_access.log;
}

Step 9: Restart the Web Server

Finally, restart the web server to apply the changes:

sudo systemctl restart httpd

or

sudo systemctl restart nginx

Conclusion

That's it! You have successfully installed Quizmaster on your Fedora Server Latest. You can now visit your domain or IP address in your web browser to start creating and conducting quizzes.

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