Damselfly is a fast and lightweight web server that serves static files. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing Damselfly on OpenSUSE Latest.
Before installing Damselfly, it's important to ensure that your system is up to date. To do this, use the following command:
sudo zypper update
To install Damselfly, we will first need to add the Damselfly repository to our system. To do this, use the following command:
sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/cshorler:/damselfly/openSUSE_Leap_15.3/home:cshorler:damselfly.repo
Now we will install Damselfly using the following command:
sudo zypper install damselfly
After installation, we need to start the Damselfly service. To do this, use the following command:
sudo systemctl start damselfly
We can also check the status of the Damselfly service using the following command:
sudo systemctl status damselfly
If the status is "active (running)", it means that Damselfly has started successfully.
Finally, we need to configure Damselfly to serve our static files. To do this, create a directory where you will store your static files. Let's call this directory "static".
mkdir static
Now, create an index.html file inside the static directory, with some basic HTML code to test that Damselfly is serving the file correctly.
echo "Hello, World!" > static/index.html
Next, we need to tell Damselfly where to look for our static files. To do this, edit the Damselfly configuration file using the following command:
sudo nano /etc/damselfly.conf
In the configuration file, add the following lines:
documentroot /path/to/static
Replace "/path/to/static" with the path to your static directory, which in this example is "static".
Congratulations, you have successfully installed and configured Damselfly on OpenSUSE Latest. You can now start serving your static files with Damselfly.
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