Movim is a free and open-source social networking platform that allows you to communicate with your friends, family, and colleagues. You can join public communities or create your own private ones.
In this tutorial, we will walk you through the steps to install Movim on Linux Mint Latest.
Before proceeding with this tutorial, you need to have the following:
Before installing Movim, you need to install some dependencies on your Linux Mint Latest system. Run the following command to update the system package repository and install the dependencies:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install wget unzip php php-dom php-curl php-xml php-intl php-mbstring php-sqlite3 php-zip sqlite3
Download the latest release of Movim from their official website using the following command:
wget https://github.com/movim/movim/releases/download/0.18.1/movim-0.18.1.zip
Once the download is complete, extract the Movim archive using the following command:
unzip movim-0.18.1.zip -d /var/www/
After extracting the Movim archive, you need to configure it. First, rename the extracted directory to movim:
sudo mv /var/www/movim-0.18.1 /var/www/movim
Next, create a new SQLite database for Movim:
sudo sqlite3 /var/www/movim/data/movim.sqlite < /var/www/movim/database.sql
Then, change the ownership of the Movim directory to the web server user:
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/movim/
In this step, we will configure Apache web server to serve Movim.
Create a new virtual host configuration file for Movim:
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/movim.conf
Paste the following configuration:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName your_domain.com # replace with your own domain name
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/movim/
<Directory /var/www/movim>
Options FollowSymLinks
DirectoryIndex index.php
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Save and close the file.
Next, enable the virtual host configuration and Apache rewrite module:
sudo a2ensite movim.conf
sudo a2enmod rewrite
Then, restart Apache for the changes to take effect:
sudo systemctl restart apache2
Now that you have installed and configured Movim, you can access it by opening a web browser and navigating to the domain name or IP address of your server.
For example, if your server's domain name is movim.example.com, you can access Movim by entering the URL http://movim.example.com in your web browser.
In this tutorial, you learned how to install and configure Movim on Linux Mint Latest. You can now start exploring Movim, create your own profile, join or create communities, and communicate with your friends and colleagues.
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