In this tutorial, we will guide you through the installation process of Wallabag, a self-hosted read-it-later app. We will be using OpenSUSE latest version as our operating system.
For this installation, we need:
First, update the system to the latest version by running the following command:
sudo zypper up
Wallabag requires a web server to function correctly. We will install the Apache HTTP server by the following command:
sudo zypper install apache2
After installation completes, start the Apache web server by running the following command:
sudo systemctl start apache2
Wallabag requires a database server to store its data. We will install MariaDB database server by running the following command:
sudo zypper install mariadb mariadb-client
After installation completes, start the MariaDB server by running the following command:
sudo systemctl start mariadb
Then, run the following command to secure the MariaDB installation:
sudo mysql_secure_installation
Wallabag is a PHP web application. We will install PHP and its required extensions by running the following command:
sudo zypper install php7 php7-mysql php7-mbstring php7-ctype php7-iconv php7-json php7-openssl php7-pdo php7-pdo_mysql php7-session php7-xml
After installation completes, restart the Apache web server by running the following command:
sudo systemctl restart apache2
Now, we will download the latest version of Wallabag from the official website. Go to the directory where you want to download the Wallabag application and run the following command:
sudo wget https://wllbg.org/latest-2.4.x -O wallabag.zip
After the download completes, extract the contents of the downloaded zip file by running the following command:
sudo unzip wallabag.zip -d /var/www/html/wallabag
Change the permissions of the wallabag directory to allow the web server to read and write to the directory:
sudo chown -R wwwrun:www /var/www/html/wallabag
Create a new database for Wallabag and a new database user with the following commands:
sudo mysql -u root -p
Enter your MariaDB root user password when prompted. Then, create a new database named wallabag by running the following command:
CREATE DATABASE wallabag;
Create a new user named wallabaguser with the password newpassword and give it permission to access the wallabag database by running the following commands:
CREATE USER 'wallabaguser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'newpassword';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wallabag.* TO 'wallabaguser'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;
Be sure to replace the password newpassword with a secure password of your choice.
Create a new parameters.yml file inside the app/config directory by running the following command:
sudo cp /var/www/html/wallabag/app/config/parameters.yml.dist /var/www/html/wallabag/app/config/parameters.yml
Open the parameters.yml file with a text editor and modify the following settings:
database_driver: pdo_mysql
database_host: 127.0.0.1
database_port: null
database_name: wallabag
database_user: wallabaguser
database_password: newpassword
Save and close the parameters.yml file.
Next, we need to create the database schema for Wallabag. Change to the wallabag directory by running the following command:
cd /var/www/html/wallabag
Then, run the following command to create the schema:
sudo php bin/console doctrine:schema:create
Finally, clear the cache by running the following command:
sudo php bin/console cache:clear --env=prod --no-debug
Open a web browser and navigate to http://your_server_ip/wallabag. You should see the Wallabag login page.
Enter the credentials you want to use for the Wallabag application and click on the "Register" button to create a new user.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Wallabag on OpenSUSE latest.
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