Live Helper Chat is a free and open source chat application that allows users to communicate with website visitors in real-time. It offers a wide range of features such as chat transcripts, file sharing, and chatbot integration. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Live Helper Chat on MXLinux Latest.
Before we start, make sure you have the following:
Visit the Live Helper Chat website https://livehelperchat.com/ and download the latest version of Live Helper Chat.
wget https://github.com/LiveHelperChat/livehelperchat/archive/master.zip
Extract the downloaded file to /var/www/html/ directory. You need to use sudo command to have administrative privileges.
sudo unzip master.zip -d /var/www/html/
After extraction, you need to rename the directory to something easy to remember or simpler:
sudo mv /var/www/html/livehelperchat-master/ /var/www/html/livehelperchat/
Now we need to change the ownership of the Live Helper Chat directory:
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/livehelperchat/
Log in to your MySQL server using the mysql command-line interface:
sudo mysql -u root -p
Create a new database for Live Helper Chat:
CREATE DATABASE livehelperchat_db;
Create a new user and grant permission to access the database:
CREATE USER 'livehelperchat_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'your_password_here';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON livehelperchat_db.* TO 'livehelperchat_user'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Make sure to replace your_password_here with a strong password.
Exit from the MySQL command prompt:
exit;
Open your web browser and navigate to http://localhost/livehelperchat/ to begin the installation process.
Follow the instructions in the wizard to complete the installation process. When prompted for database settings, enter the following:
After completing the installation process, remove the install directory for security reasons.
sudo rm -rf /var/www/html/livehelperchat/install/
And that’s it! You have successfully installed Live Helper Chat on your MXLinux Latest system. You can now start using the chat application to communicate with your website visitors.
In this tutorial, we explained how to install and configure Live Helper Chat on MXLinux Latest. If you have any questions, feel free to ask in the comments section below.
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