Open Source Social Network (OSSN) is a PHP-based social networking tool for building online communities. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install OSSN on Manjaro using the Apache web server.
Before proceeding with the installation, you need to have the following prerequisites:
To install PHP on Manjaro, open the terminal and run the following commands:
sudo pacman -Syu php
This command will update the package list and install the PHP package on your system.
OSSN requires a database to store its data. Therefore, you need to install a database server. In this tutorial, we will use MySQL. To install MySQL, run the following command:
sudo pacman -Syu mysql
This command will update the package list and install the MySQL package on your system.
Install the dependencies OSSN requires. To do this, open the terminal and run the following command:
sudo pacman -Syu git php-gd php-intl php-mysqli mono imagemagick php-mbstring apache
This command will install git, php-gd, php-intl, php-mysqli, mono, imagemagick, php-mbstring, and apache.
To download OSSN, you need to clone the OSSN Git repository. To do this, run the following command in the terminal:
git clone https://github.com/opensource-socialnetwork/opensource-socialnetwork.git
This command will download the OSSN code from the Git repository to your local system.
Before installing OSSN, you need to create a database for OSSN to use. To do this, log in to MySQL using the following command:
mysql -u root -p
This command will prompt you for the MySQL root password. After entering the password, you will see the MySQL prompt.
Create a new database for OSSN using the following command:
CREATE DATABASE ossn;
This command will create a new database named ossn.
Navigate to the OSSN directory using the following command:
cd opensource-socialnetwork
Run the following command to install OSSN:
sudo ./autogen.sh
sudo ./configure
sudo make
sudo make install
These commands will configure and install OSSN on your Manjaro system.
To access OSSN from a web browser, you need to create a virtual host in the Apache configuration file. To do this, open the following file using a text editor:
sudo nano /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
Add the following lines to create the virtual host:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName ossn.example.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/ossn/
<Directory /var/www/ossn/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Replace ossn.example.com with your own domain name.
Save and close the file.
To apply the changes, you need to restart the Apache web server. To do this, run the following command:
sudo systemctl restart httpd
Now, you can access OSSN from a web browser by visiting http://ossn.example.com or http://localhost/ossn/.
Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the setup process.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed OSSN on Manjaro.
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