Chyrp Lite is a lightweight and developer-friendly blogging platform. In this tutorial, we will walk you through the steps to install Chyrp Lite on Linux Mint.
Before installing Chyrp Lite, make sure you have the following prerequisites installed on your system:
You can download the latest version of Chyrp Lite from its official website. To download Chyrp Lite, use the following command or visit the website https://chyrplite.net/:
wget https://github.com/xenocrat/chyrp-lite/releases/latest/download/chyrp-lite-2021.07.31.zip
Chyrp Lite is downloaded in a zip file format, so you need to install unzip to extract it. In order to do that, run the following command:
sudo apt-get install unzip
After the download completes, extract the Chyrp Lite zip file using the following command:
unzip chyrp-lite-2021.07.31.zip
Once extracted, move the folder to your Apache web server root directory using the following command:
sudo mv chyrp-lite /var/www/html/
Create a new database and user to use with Chyrp Lite. You can use either MariaDB or MySQL for this task. Here we are using MariaDB. Login to MariaDB with the following command:
sudo mysql -u root -p
Enter the MySQL root password and create the new database with the following commands:
CREATE DATABASE chyrp;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON chyrp.* TO 'chyrpuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
exit;
Note: Here, "chyrp" is the name of the database, "chyrpuser" is the username, and "password" is the password for the user. You can use your own values.
Change the directory to the Chyrp Lite folder using the following command:
cd /var/www/html/chyrp-lite/
Copy the config.sample.php file to config.php using the following command:
cp config.sample.php config.php
Now edit the config.php file with the following command:
nano config.php
Set your database details according to your setup:
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');
define('DB_NAME', 'chyrp');
define('DB_USER', 'chyrpuser');
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'password');
Save and close the file by pressing Ctrl + X, then Y, and then Enter.
Set the appropriate file permissions for the Chyrp Lite folder using the following commands:
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/chyrp-lite/
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/chyrp-lite/
Now, access Chyrp Lite using your web browser by typing the following URL in the address bar:
http://localhost/chyrp-lite/
You will see the Chyrp Lite installer page. Proceed with the installation by following the on-screen instructions.
In this tutorial, you learned how to install Chyrp Lite on Linux Mint. Chyrp Lite is an easy-to-use and customizable blogging platform that runs smoothly on Linux Mint.
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