Homebox is a web-based application that lets you create your personal cloud system with a lot of features that are useful for home users or small businesses. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install Homebox on Ubuntu Server Latest.
Before installing any software, it's essential to ensure that the system is up to date. To do this, run the following commands:
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt upgrade
Homebox is built using Docker-based containers, and hence, we need Docker to be installed on the system.
To install Docker on Ubuntu Server, run the following command:
$ sudo apt install docker.io
Once Docker is installed, start the Docker service and enable it to start at boot time by running the following commands:
$ sudo systemctl start docker
$ sudo systemctl enable docker
Next, we need to clone the Homebox repository from GitHub. To do this, run the following command:
$ sudo git clone https://github.com/progmaticltd/homebox.git
Before we can start Homebox, we need to configure some settings. We can set these settings in the .env file located in the Homebox folder.
$ cd homebox/
$ sudo cp .env.example .env
$ sudo nano .env
In the .env file, we need to set the following:
APP_URL - The URL that Homebox will be accessible from (e.g., http://localhost/)DB_HOST - The database host. We will use the Docker container name, which is homebox_mysqlDB_DATABASE - The database name. We will use homeboxDB_USERNAME - The database username. We will use homeboxuserDB_PASSWORD - The database password. Set this to a secure password.Save and close the file.
We can now build and start Homebox by running the following command:
$ sudo docker-compose up -d --build
This will download all the necessary Docker images and start the Homebox containers in the background.
Once Homebox is running, we can access the web interface by opening a web browser and navigating to http://localhost. If you want to access Homebox from another device on the network, replace localhost with the IP address of the Ubuntu Server.
In this tutorial, we learned how to install Homebox on Ubuntu Server Latest using Docker. You can now configure Homebox to your liking and start using it to manage your personal cloud system.
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