Castopod is a self-hosted podcast publishing platform that allows you to create, manage, and distribute your podcast content on your own website. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Castopod on OpenSUSE Latest.
Before starting with the installation process, make sure that you have:
First, you need to install some required packages on your OpenSUSE system. To do this, open the terminal on your system and run the following command:
sudo zypper install git curl ffmpeg php php7 php7-dom php7-tokenizer php7-mbstring php7-pdo php7-pdo_mysql php7-ctype php7-json php7-xmlwriter
This command will install Git, CURL, FFmpeg and all the required PHP extensions for Castopod on your OpenSUSE system.
Composer is a dependency manager for PHP that helps you manage your project dependencies. Castopod requires Composer to install its dependencies. To install Composer on your system, run the following command:
sudo zypper in composer
Once you have installed all the required packages, you need to clone the Castopod repository from GitHub to your system. To do this, run the following command:
git clone https://github.com/Castopod/Castopod.git castopod
This command will clone the Castopod repository to the castopod directory on your system.
After cloning the Castopod repository, navigate to the castopod directory and install Castopod dependencies using the following command:
cd castopod
sudo composer install --no-dev
This command will install all the required dependencies for Castopod.
Castopod requires a MySQL database to store podcast data. You need to create a database and a user with full permissions on that database.
To create a new database, run the following command:
sudo mysql -u root -p -e "CREATE DATABASE castopod CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;"
This command will create a new database named castopod.
Next, create a new user with full privileges on the database by running the following command:
sudo mysql -u root -p -e "CREATE USER 'castopod'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';"
Replace password with a secure password for your user.
Finally, grant all privileges on the castopod database to the castopod user by running the following command:
sudo mysql -u root -p -e "GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON castopod.* TO 'castopod'@'localhost';"
Before configuring Castopod, create a .env file in the castopod directory and add the following content:
APP_ENV=production
DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=castopod
DB_USERNAME=castopod
DB_PASSWORD=password
APP_URL=https://your-domain-name.com
Replace your-domain-name.com with your domain name.
Next, generate a new application key by running the following command:
php artisan key:generate
This command will generate a new application key and update the .env file with the key.
To migrate the database, run the following command:
php artisan migrate
This command will create the required database tables.
Set the appropriate file permissions by running the following command:
sudo chown -R wwwrun:www /path/to/castopod
sudo chmod -R 775 /path/to/castopod/storage
Replace /path/to/castopod with the actual path to your Castopod installation directory.
To allow access to Castopod from the web, you need to configure your web server. Here, we will show you how to configure Apache web server.
Create a new virtual host file for Castopod by running the following command:
sudo nano /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/castopod.conf
Add the following content to the file:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName your-domain-name.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/castopod/public
<Directory /var/www/castopod>
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/castopod-error.log
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/castopod-access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Replace your-domain-name.com with your actual domain name and /var/www/castopod with the actual path to your Castopod installation directory.
Save and close the file.
Next, enable the newly created virtual host and restart the Apache web server by running the following command:
sudo a2ensite castopod.conf
sudo systemctl restart apache2
After completing all the steps, you can access Castopod from your web browser by visiting http://your-domain-name.com. You will see the Castopod welcome message displayed on your screen.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Castopod on your OpenSUSE system. Now, you can start creating and publishing podcast episodes on your own website.
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