In this tutorial, we’ll be installing Antville – a free, open-source blog hosting engine written in Java – on Ubuntu Server. This tutorial assumes that you have a basic understanding of Ubuntu Server and how to use the command line interface.
Before we install Antville, we need to make sure our Ubuntu Server is up to date. We can do this by running the following command:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y
Antville is written in Java, so the first thing we need to do is install the JRE (Java Runtime Environment). We can do this by running the following command:
sudo apt-get install default-jre -y
Next, we need to download the latest version of Antville. You can download it from the official website at https://antville.org/download.html. Once you’ve downloaded the file (it should be a .tgz file), you can extract it by running the following command:
tar -xzf antville-x.x.x.tgz
(replace ‘x.x.x’ with the version number you downloaded)
Now that we’ve downloaded and extracted Antville, we can start it up by running the following command:
cd antville-x.x.x/bin
./antville start
(replace ‘x.x.x’ with the version number you downloaded)
In a few moments, Antville should start up and you can view it in your web browser by navigating to http://localhost:8080/.
By default, Antville is configured to run on port 8080. If you want to change this, you can do so by editing the site.properties file located in the antville-x.x.x/etc directory.
You can also configure Antville to use a database (MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc) by editing the database.properties file located in the same etc directory.
That’s it – you now have Antville up and running on your Ubuntu Server! As you can see, the installation process is relatively straightforward and should only take a few minutes. If you encounter any issues, be sure to consult the official Antville documentation or seek help from the community.
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