Wayback is an open-source tool that lets you browse websites even if they're offline. It allows you to access past versions of websites and see how they've changed over time. Here's how you can install it on Fedora Server Latest.
To get started, you need to install git which is a version control system for software development. Run the following command to install git:
sudo dnf install git
Once you have git installed, you can clone the Wayback repository from Github. Run the following command to clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/wabarc/wayback.git
This will create a Wayback directory in your current working directory which contains the source code for Wayback.
Before you can run Wayback, you need to install its dependencies. You can do this by running the following command:
sudo dnf install java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel maven wget
This will install Java 8, Maven, and Wget which are required by Wayback.
To build Wayback, navigate to the Wayback directory and run the following command:
mvn clean package
This will compile the source code and create a Jar file in the Wayback/target directory.
Wayback uses WARC files to store website data. You can download a sample WARC file from https://archive.org/details/example-items. Run the following command to download the WARC file:
wget https://archive.org/download/example-items/example.warc.gz
This will download the WARC file and save it in your current working directory.
To start Wayback, navigate to the Wayback/target directory and run the following command:
java -jar wayback-core/target/wayback-core-2.X.X-SNAPSHOT-dist.jar -p 8080 -d data -n
Replace 2.X.X-SNAPSHOT with the version of Wayback you downloaded. This command starts Wayback on port 8080 with the data directory set to "data".
Before you can start browsing websites with Wayback, you need to index the WARC file. Run the following command to index the WARC file:
java -Xmx16g -jar wayback-core/target/wayback-core-2.X.X-SNAPSHOT-dist.jar index data/example.warc.gz
This will start indexing the WARC file in the "data" directory.
Once the indexing is complete, you can start browsing websites with Wayback. Open your web browser and go to http://localhost:8080/wayback/. You should see the Wayback interface which lets you browse websites and see their past versions.
Congratulations, you've successfully installed Wayback on Fedora Server Latest!
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