How to Install LinkWarden on Pop!_OS Latest

LinkWarden is a link shortener service that can be hosted on your own server. It's a lightweight and easy-to-use service that can help you manage your links effectively. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the installation of LinkWarden on Pop!_OS Latest.

Prerequisites

Before we start, you should have the following:

• A running instance of Pop!_OS Latest
• A user account with sudo privileges
• A terminal or SSH client

Step 1 – Install Dependencies

The first step is to install the required dependencies for LinkWarden:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git php7.4-cli php7.4-xml composer

Step 2 – Clone the Repository

Next, we need to clone the LinkWarden repository from GitHub:

git clone https://github.com/Daniel31x13/link-warden.git
cd link-warden

Step 3 – Install Dependencies for LinkWarden

Now, we need to install the required dependencies for LinkWarden using Composer:

composer install --no-dev --prefer-dist --optimize-autoloader

Step 4 – Configure LinkWarden

Copy the .env.example file to .env and update the values to match your configuration:

cp .env.example .env
nano .env

Here, you can edit the database connection, site name, and other settings.

Step 5 – Set up the Database

Next, we need to create a new database for LinkWarden:

sudo mysql
CREATE DATABASE link_warden;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON link_warden.* TO 'warden'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
exit;

In the above example, replace warden and password with the database username and password that you want to use.

Now, let's run the database migrations:

php artisan migrate

Step 6 – Configure Nginx

Finally, we need to configure Nginx as our web server:

sudo apt-get install nginx
sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/link.warden.com

Add the following configuration:

server {
   listen 80;
   server_name link.warden.com;
   root /var/www/link-warden/public;
   index index.php;

   location / {
      try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
   }

   location ~ \.php$ {
      include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
      fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock;
      fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
   }
}

Save and exit the file.

Enable the site and restart Nginx:

sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/link.warden.com /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
sudo systemctl restart nginx

Step 7 – Start LinkWarden

And that's it! LinkWarden is now installed and you can start the service:

php artisan serve --host=0.0.0.0

Now, you should be able to access LinkWarden by navigating to the URL specified in Step 6 in your web browser.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we showed you how to install LinkWarden on Pop!_OS Latest using Nginx as the web server. Now you can start using LinkWarden to manage your links effectively.

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