Omeka S is a popular content management system designed for museums, archives, and other cultural institutions. In this tutorial, we will go through the steps to install Omeka S on Void Linux.
Before you start, make sure you have the following:
First, update your system components by running the following command:
sudo xbps-install -Su
This will update all system components to the latest available versions.
To install all the required packages for Omeka S, run the following command:
sudo xbps-install nginx php-fpm php-mysql mariadb-server mariadb-client git wget
This command installs Nginx (our web server), PHP-FPM (the PHP FastCGI Process Manager), the PHP MySQL extension, MariaDB (our database server), Git, and Wget.
Once all the required packages are installed, download Omeka S by running the following command:
sudo wget https://github.com/omeka/omeka-s/releases/download/v3.1.1/omeka-s-3.1.1.zip
This command downloads Omeka S version 3.1.1. You can change the version to the latest available version as needed.
Unzip the Omeka S archive by running the following command:
sudo unzip omeka-s-3.1.1.zip
This will extract the Omeka S folder.
Copy the extracted Omeka S folder to the document root of your web server.
sudo cp -r omeka-s /var/www/
To configure Nginx to serve Omeka S, create a new server block file in the /etc/nginx/conf.d/ directory with the following content:
server {
listen 80;
root /var/www/omeka-s;
index index.php;
server_name example.com;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
include fastcgi.conf;
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.sock;
}
}
Change the value of the server_name directive to your own domain or IP address.
Save the file and restart Nginx by running:
sudo service nginx restart
Create a new database for Omeka S and a new user account with the following commands:
sudo mysql -u root -p
CREATE DATABASE omeka;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON omeka.* TO 'omeka'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'your_password_here';
Replace "your_password_here" with a strong password of your own.
Exit the MySQL prompt by typing exit.
To configure Omeka S, copy the .env.local.php.template file to .env.local.php and edit it with your favorite text editor:
sudo cp /var/www/omeka-s/.env.local.php.template /var/www/omeka-s/.env.local.php
sudo nano /var/www/omeka-s/.env.local.php
Change the following variables to match your MariaDB database and user configuration:
'database' => [
'host' => 'localhost',
'port' => '3306',
'name' => 'omeka',
'user' => 'omeka',
'password' => 'your_password_here',
],
Save the file and exit the text editor.
Open your web browser and navigate to http://your_domain_or_ip/omeka-s.
Follow the on-screen instructions to finish the installation process.
That’s it! You have successfully installed Omeka S on your Void Linux server!
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