How to Install Shiori on Windows 11

Shiori is a bookmark manager written in Go language. To install Shiori on Windows 11, follow these steps:

Prerequisites

• Go programming language (version 1.12 or higher)
• Git command-line tool
• MySQL or SQLite database

Installation Steps

1. Open the command prompt or Git Bash and run the following command to get Shiori:

   go get -u github.com/go-shiori/shiori
   

2. Navigate to the Shiori source code directory by running the following command:

   cd %GOPATH%/src/github.com/go-shiori/shiori
   

3. Install required dependencies using the following command:

   go get ./...
   

4. Build the Shiori application using the following command:

   go build .
   

5. After the build process completes successfully, the Shiori binary will be available in the same directory as the source code.

6. To start the Shiori bookmarker, run the following command:

   ./shiori serve
   

7. To initialize the database, use the command:

   ./shiori init
   

   Depending on the database you chose (MySQL or SQLite), you might need to provide additional configuration parameters.

8. Once the initialization process is complete, you can access the Shiori web interface at http://localhost:8080.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we learned how to install Shiori on Windows 11. Shiori is a great bookmark management tool that you can use to organize your bookmarks easily.

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