How to install Chevereto on macOS

Chevereto is a powerful and customizable image hosting script that can be installed on your own server. In this tutorial, we will walk you through the steps to install Chevereto on a macOS machine.

Prerequisites

Before we start, make sure your macOS machine has the following software installed:

• Apache Web Server
• MySQL Server
• PHP version 5.5 or higher

Installation steps

1. Download the latest version of Chevereto from https://github.com/chevereto/chevereto by clicking on the "Clone or download" button and selecting "Download ZIP".

2. Extract the ZIP file to a folder on your macOS machine.

3. Rename the folder to "chevereto" and move it to the document root of your Apache Web Server. You can find the document root in the "httpd.conf" file located in /etc/apache2/.

4. Open the Terminal app on your macOS machine and navigate to the "chevereto" folder using the "cd" command.

5. Run the following command to install the required dependencies:

   composer install --no-dev --prefer-dist
   

6. Create a new MySQL database for Chevereto with the following command:

   mysql -u root -p
   

   CREATE DATABASE database_name;
   

   Replace "database_name" with the name of your desired database.

7. Create a new user for the database with the following command:

   GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON database_name.* TO 'username'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
   

   Replace "database_name", "username", and "password" with your desired values.

8. Import the Chevereto database schema with the following command:

   mysql -u username -p database_name < app/install/chevereto.sql
   

   Replace "username" and "database_name" with the values you set in step 7.

9. Copy the "app/settings.php.example" file to "app/settings.php" and edit it to configure Chevereto to use your database. Set the "db_name", "db_user", "db_pass", and "db_host" values to match your database configuration.

   cp app/settings.php.example app/settings.php
   nano app/settings.php
   

10. Finally, open your web browser and navigate to http://localhost/chevereto/install to complete the Chevereto installation process. Follow the on-screen instructions to set up your administrator account and configure your site.

Congratulations, you have successfully installed Chevereto on your macOS machine.

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