Noosfero is an open source web platform that allows organizations to create and manage various types of web portals. It is designed to be customizable and easy to use. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the installation process of Noosfero on Kali Linux.
Before proceeding with the installation, make sure that you have the following prerequisites:
If you don't have any of these prerequisites, please install them before continuing.
First, let's clone the Noosfero source code from GitLab. To do this, run the following command:
git clone https://gitlab.com/noosfero/noosfero.git
This will create a new directory called noosfero in your current working directory.
Before running Noosfero, we need to install its dependencies. Run the following command to install them:
sudo apt-get install bundler libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev zlib1g-dev libsqlite3-dev libpq-dev nodejs
This command will install the required libraries and development headers needed to compile and execute Noosfero.
Noosfero uses PostgreSQL as its database. If you don't have PostgreSQL installed, you can install it by running the following command:
sudo apt-get install postgresql postgresql-contrib
After the installation, create a new PostgreSQL user by running the following command:
sudo su postgres
createuser -d noosfero -P
This will create a new user with the username 'noosfero'. You will be prompted to set a password for the user.
Now, create a new database for Noosfero by running:
createdb -O noosfero noosfero_production
This will create a new database with the name 'noosfero_production' and assign the owner as the 'noosfero' user.
Next, we need to configure Noosfero by creating a configuration file. Copy the example configuration file by running:
cp config/noosfero.yml.example config/noosfero.yml
Now, edit the config/noosfero.yml file and update the adapter, database, host, port, username and password settings to match your PostgreSQL configuration.
Finally, we can install Noosfero by running the following command:
bin/setup
This command will install all the required gems, create the database schema and load the default data.
Once everything is setup, you can start Noosfero by running:
bundle exec rails s
This command will start the Noosfero server at http://localhost:3000.
In this tutorial, we guided you through the installation process of Noosfero on Kali Linux. Noosfero is a powerful web platform that provides various tools to create beautiful and customizable web portals.
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