Tiny Tiny IRC is a web-based IRC client that allows users to connect and communicate with others through the Internet Relay Chat (IRC) network. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing Tiny Tiny IRC on a Fedora Server Latest.
Before starting with the installation, you will need:
To use Tiny Tiny IRC, we need to install some required packages on the server. Open the terminal and run the following commands as root:
sudo dnf update
sudo dnf install git unzip zip screen tmux -y
sudo dnf install php php-dom php-gd php-mbstring php-pgsql php-xml -y
Next, we need to download the Tiny Tiny IRC application from the GitHub repository. Run the following command to clone the repository:
sudo git clone https://github.com/levito/tt-irc.git /var/www/tt-irc
This will download the Tiny Tiny IRC files in the /var/www/tt-irc directory.
Now, we need to configure Tiny Tiny IRC by creating the configuration file. Navigate to the tt-irc directory and copy the example configuration file:
cd /var/www/tt-irc
sudo cp config/config.php.example config/config.php
Next, open the configuration file in a text editor:
sudo nano config/config.php
Update the following lines according to your server configuration:
define('TTIRC_DB_TYPE', 'pgsql'); // database type
define('TTIRC_DB_HOST', 'localhost'); // database host
define('TTIRC_DB_USER', 'ttirc'); // database username
define('TTIRC_DB_PASS', 'password'); // database password
define('TTIRC_DB_NAME', 'ttirc'); // database name
Save the changes and close the editor.
We need to create the database and user that will be used by Tiny Tiny IRC to store data. Run the following commands as root:
sudo su - postgres
psql
CREATE DATABASE ttirc;
CREATE USER ttirc WITH PASSWORD 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE ttirc TO ttirc;
\q
exit
Replace the password with a strong password of your choice.
Next, we need to set the correct permissions and ownership for the Tiny Tiny IRC files. Run the following commands as root:
sudo chown -R apache:apache /var/www/tt-irc
sudo chmod 755 /var/www/tt-irc
sudo chmod -R 777 cache data
This will set the Apache user as the owner of the files and give the appropriate permissions to the cache and data directories.
Finally, we need to configure the web server to serve Tiny Tiny IRC. If you are using Apache, create a new virtual host configuration file:
sudo nano /etc/httpd/conf.d/ttirc.conf
Add the following configuration:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin admin@example.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/tt-irc
ServerName irc.example.com
<Directory /var/www/tt-irc>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/ttirc_error.log
CustomLog /var/log/httpd/ttirc_access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Replace the ServerAdmin, ServerName, and DocumentRoot values with your own.
Save the file and reload the Apache configuration:
sudo systemctl reload httpd
If you are using Nginx, create a new server block configuration file:
sudo nano /etc/nginx/conf.d/ttirc.conf
Add the following configuration:
server {
listen 80;
server_name irc.example.com;
root /var/www/tt-irc;
index index.php;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php-fpm/www.sock;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $fastcgi_script_name;
}
}
Replace the server_name and root values with your own.
Save the file and reload the Nginx configuration:
sudo systemctl reload nginx
Open a web browser and navigate to the URL http://irc.example.com (replace with your own server name or IP address). You should see the Tiny Tiny IRC login page. Use the default username and password (admin/admin) to login.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Tiny Tiny IRC on a Fedora Server Latest.
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