Kiwi IRC is a popular web-based internet relay chat (IRC) client that is well-known for its sleek interface and extensive features. In this tutorial, we will be guiding you on how to install Kiwi IRC on your Manjaro system.
Before we proceed with the installation of Kiwi IRC, it's essential that we update our system to ensure all the necessary packages are up-to-date. To update your system, open a terminal and run the following command:
sudo pacman -Syu
Kiwi IRC is a web-based client, which means we will need an HTTP server to serve it on the web. In this tutorial, we will be using Nginx as our HTTP server and PHP as our server-side scripting language.
To install Nginx and PHP, you can run the following command:
sudo pacman -S nginx php-fpm
After installing Nginx and PHP, we need to configure Nginx to serve Kiwi IRC. To do this, create a new configuration file for Kiwi IRC by running the command:
sudo nano /etc/nginx/conf.d/kiwiirc.conf
Add the following lines into the file and replace "yourdomain.com" with your domain name or IP address:
server {
listen 80;
server_name yourdomain.com;
root /var/www/kiwiirc;
index index.html index.htm index.php;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
}
Then, save and exit the file by pressing "Ctrl + X", followed by the "Y" key, and then pressing "Enter".
Now, we need to download and configure Kiwi IRC. First, navigate to the web directory and create a new directory for Kiwi IRC by running the following commands:
cd /var/www
sudo mkdir kiwiirc
After that, download the latest stable version of Kiwi IRC by running the following command:
sudo wget https://kiwiirc.com/downloads/kiwiirc.zip
Unzip the downloaded file by running:
sudo unzip kiwiirc.zip -d kiwiirc/
Set the appropriate file permissions by running:
sudo chmod -R 755 kiwiirc/
sudo chown -R nginx:nginx kiwiirc/
After completing the above steps, we need to restart Nginx and PHP to apply the changes. Run the following command to restart Nginx:
sudo systemctl restart nginx
And then, run the following command to restart PHP:
sudo systemctl restart php-fpm
Kiwi IRC is now installed and configured on your Manjaro system. Open your web browser and type your domain name or IP address in the address bar to access Kiwi IRC. If everything was done correctly, you should be redirected to Kiwi IRC's login page.
In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install and configure Kiwi IRC on Manjaro Linux. With these simple steps, you can easily set up a powerful and modern IRC client on your Manjaro server.
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