Antville is a free and open source weblog hosting software that allows users to create and manage their own personal website or blog. In this tutorial, we will guide you step-by-step through the process of installing Antville on the latest release of MXLinux.
Before we begin with the installation of Antville, we need to make sure that the following prerequisites are met:
Antville is a java-based application, so we need to install java on our system. To install java, run the following command in your terminal:
sudo apt-get install default-jre
Antville requires Apache and MySQL to run. To install Apache and MySQL, run the following command in your terminal:
sudo apt-get install apache2 mysql-server
Go to the Antville website (https://antville.org) and download the latest version of Antville. You can use the following command in your terminal to download Antville:
wget https://antville.org/download/antville-1.3.3.tar.gz
After downloading Antville, we need to extract it. Use the following command to extract Antville:
tar -zxvf antville-1.3.3.tar.gz
This will extract Antville into a directory called 'antville-1.3.3'.
Next, we need to configure Apache to serve the Antville application. To do this, we need to create a virtual host for Antville.
Create a configuration file for Antville using the following command:
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/antville.conf
Add the following content to the file:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin admin@example.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/antville
ServerName antville.example.com
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Replace the ServerAdmin, ServerName and DocumentRoot with your own values.
Enable the site by running the following command:
sudo a2ensite antville.conf
Finally, reload Apache to apply the changes:
sudo systemctl reload apache2
We need to create a MySQL database for Antville. Login to MySQL with the following command:
sudo mysql -u root -p
Create a new database with the following command:
CREATE DATABASE antville;
Create a new MySQL user with the following command:
CREATE USER 'antville'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
Grant all privileges to the new user with the following command:
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON antville.* TO 'antville'@'localhost';
Replace 'password' with your own password.
Exit from the MySQL prompt with the following command:
exit
We are now ready to install Antville. Move the 'antville-1.3.3' directory to the DocumentRoot of the virtual host we created in step 5:
sudo mv antville-1.3.3 /var/www/antville
Change the owner of the directory to the Apache user:
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/antville
We need to configure Antville to use the MySQL database we created in step 6. Open the 'config.properties' file located in the 'antville-1.3.3' directory with the following command:
sudo nano /var/www/antville/config.properties
Replace the following values with your own values:
ANTVILLE_USER = root
ANTVILLE_PASSWORD =
ANTVILLE_DB = antville
ANTVILLE_DB_DRIVER = jdbc:mysql
ANTVILLE_DB_SERVER = localhost
ANTVILLE_DB_PORT = 3306
ANTVILLE_ROOT = ./
Save the file and exit the editor.
To start Antville, run the following command:
sudo /var/www/antville/bin/start
You can now access the Antville application by visiting http://antville.example.com in your web browser.
In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install Antville on the latest release of MXLinux. We hope this guide has been helpful to you. If you have any questions, please feel free to leave a comment below.
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