OpenNote is an open-source note-taking app that you can easily self-host, and it is a great alternative to Evernote or Google Keep. In this tutorial, we'll guide you step by step on how to install OpenNote on Kali Linux Latest.
Before installing OpenNote, we need to install the LAMP stack. LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. Enter the following command to install the LAMP stack:
sudo apt-get install apache2 mariadb-server php php-mysql libapache2-mod-php unzip
Next, we need to log in to the MariaDB database server with the following command:
sudo mysql -u root -p
Enter your root password when prompted. Once you're in the MariaDB prompt, create a new database for OpenNote:
CREATE DATABASE opennota;
Create a new database user and grant them permissions to access the database:
GRANT ALL ON opennota.* TO 'opennota_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
Replace 'password' with a strong password that you'll remember. Then, flush your privileges and exit the MariaDB prompt:
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
exit;
Go to the OpenNote GitHub repository here and download the latest release. Once you've downloaded the ZIP file, extract it to the /var/www/html folder with the following command:
sudo unzip OpenNote-vX.X.X.zip -d /var/www/html
Replace X.X.X with the version number you downloaded.
Change folder permission:
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/opennote/*
Open the config file for editing:
sudo nano /var/www/html/opennote/config.php
Set the database name, database username, and database password that you created in Step 2:
define('DB_NAME', 'opennota');
define('DB_USER', 'opennota_user');
define('DB_PASS', 'password');
Replace 'password' with the password you created for the 'opennota_user' database user.
Save and exit the file.
Set the folder permission:
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/opennote/
Create a new VirtualHost for OpenNote by creating a new configuration file:
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/opennote.conf
Add the following configuration:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin admin@example.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/opennote
ServerName example.com
ServerAlias www.example.com
<Directory /var/www/html/opennote>
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Replace 'example.com' with your own domain or IP address.
Enable the new VirtualHost:
sudo a2ensite opennote.conf
Restart Apache for the changes to take effect:
sudo service apache2 restart
Go to your website or IP address and complete the installation process by following the on-screen instructions.
In this tutorial, we showed you how to install OpenNote on Kali Linux Latest. OpenNote is a great note-taking app that you can easily self-host and customize. If you have any questions, feel free to leave them in the comments below.
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