Mobilizon is an open-source platform that allows you to organize your events and group activities online without relying on data-harvesting social media networks. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Mobilizon on Manjaro Linux.
Before installing Mobilizon, make sure that your Manjaro system has all the necessary dependencies installed. To do this, enter the following commands in your terminal:
sudo pacman -S curl git postgresql rustup nginx gettext
The above command will install the PostgreSQL database, Nginx web server, and Rust programming language.
Next, we will clone the Mobilizon repository from Github. Open your terminal and run the following command to clone the Mobilizon repository:
git clone https://framagit.org/framasoft/mobilizon.git
This will download the required files to your local system.
Mobilizon is built on the Rust programming language, so we need to install it before we can proceed with installation. Run the following command to install Rust:
rustup install stable
This command will install the stable version of Rust on your system.
To install Mobilizon, navigate to the cloned repository and run the following command:
sudo make install
This command will install Mobilizon along with all the required dependencies.
Before we can start using Mobilizon, we need to create a new database. Enter the following command in your terminal to create a new database:
sudo -u postgres createdb mobilizon
To configure Nginx, you need to create a new server block configuration file. Run the following command to create a new configuration file:
sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/mobilizon.conf
Paste the following configuration in the configuration file:
server {
listen 80;
server_name your-domain.com;
root /usr/local/mobilizon/web;
index index.html;
location / {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:3000;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
}
}
Replace your-domain.com with your actual domain name, then save and close the editor.
Next, create a symlink to your new configuration file by running the following command:
sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/mobilizon.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
Finally, restart Nginx with the following command:
sudo systemctl restart nginx
To start the Mobilizon service, run the following command in your terminal:
mobilizon start
This command will start the Mobilizon server on port 3000.
In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install Mobilizon on Manjaro Linux. You can now start using Mobilizon to organize your events and group activities online without relying on data-harvesting social media networks.
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