Anahita is an open-source social networking platform that allows you to create your own social network or community with ease. In this tutorial, we will walk you through how to install Anahita on Linux Mint latest.
Before we begin, make sure you have the following installed on your Linux Mint system:
Download the Anahita package from the website: https://www.getanahita.com/
Extract the downloaded Anahita package to your Apache web server root directory. You can use the following command to extract the package:
sudo tar -xzvf anahita-x.y.z.tar.gz -C /var/www/html/
Change the Anahita package directory permissions to allow read/write from the web server user:
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/anahita
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/anahita
Create a MySQL database for your Anahita installation. You can use the following command to create a new database named anahita:
mysql -u root -p -e "CREATE DATABASE anahita;"
Note: Replace the database name anahita with your own preferred name.
Create a new MySQL user for your Anahita installation with privileges to the previously created database. You can use the following command to create a new user named anahitauser with the password password123:
mysql -u root -p -e "CREATE USER 'anahitauser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password123';"
mysql -u root -p -e "GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON anahita.* TO 'anahitauser'@'localhost';"
Note: Replace the username anahitauser and the password password123 with your own preferred values.
Copy the sample Anahita configuration file:
sudo cp /var/www/html/anahita/configuration.php.dist /var/www/html/anahita/configuration.php
Edit the configuration.php file and update the database connection details:
sudo nano /var/www/html/anahita/configuration.php
Update the following values:
define('A_CONFIGURATION_IS_EDITABLE',1);
define('A_DATABASE_HOSTNAME','localhost');
define('A_DATABASE_USERNAME','anahitauser');
define('A_DATABASE_PASSWORD','password123');
define('A_DATABASE_NAME','anahita');
Save and close the file.
Create a new virtual host configuration for Anahita by creating a new configuration file in the Apache sites-available directory:
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/anahita.conf
Add the following configuration:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin admin@example.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/anahita
ServerName example.com
<Directory /var/www/html/anahita>
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/anahita-error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/anahita-access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Note: Replace example.com with your own server domain name.
Enable the virtual host configuration by linking the configuration file from the sites-available to sites-enabled directory:
sudo ln -s /etc/apache2/sites-available/anahita.conf /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/
Restart the Apache web server for the changes to take effect:
sudo systemctl restart apache2
Open your web browser and visit your server domain name in the format http://example.com/. The Anahita installation wizard will guide you through the process of setting up your Anahita social network.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Anahita on Linux Mint.
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