Gotify is an open-source and self-hosted notification service that helps you to send and receive simple push notifications. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Gotify on MXLinux Latest.
Before proceeding with this tutorial, make sure you have the following:
Gotify requires PostgreSQL as a database engine. To install PostgreSQL, run the following command in your terminal:
sudo apt install postgresql
After installing PostgreSQL, you need to create a new database for Gotify. To create a new database, run the following command:
sudo -u postgres createdb gotify_db
Now, download the latest version of Gotify from its official website using the following command:
wget https://github.com/gotify/server/releases/download/v2.1.0/gotify-linux-amd64.zip
Extract the downloaded package using the unzip command:
unzip gotify-linux-amd64.zip
Move the extracted Gotify directory to the /opt directory:
sudo mv gotify /opt
Before starting Gotify, you need to create a configuration file. To create a configuration file, run the following command:
sudo nano /opt/gotify/config.yaml
Paste the following configuration into the file:
database:
# You can change this to use for example MySQL.
driver: postgres
# Put here the Data Source Name (dsn) for your database.
# The format is postgres://user:password@host:port/dbname
# You can also use the environment variable DATABASE_URL instead of this field.
dsn: postgres://localhost/gotify_db
migrations: true
# The maximum number of connections in the idle connection pool
maxidle: 4
# The maximum number of open connections to the database
maxopen: 16
server:
# The host and port to listen to.
address: "0.0.0.0:80"
# TLS certificate file path
certfile: ""
# TLS key file path
keyfile: ""
# These are default values for the admin user that is created on startup.
# change them when you start the server the first time.
admin:
# The admin username
username: "admin"
# The admin password. Leave it empty to generate a random password on startup.
password: ""
Save and close the file.
To start Gotify, run the following command in your terminal:
sudo /opt/gotify/gotify
Now, open your web browser and navigate to http://localhost to access the Gotify login page.
After successfully logging in, you can create a new user and test the Gotify notification service.
Congratulations, you have successfully installed Gotify on MXLinux Latest!
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