How to Install LinkAce on macOS

LinkAce is an open-source bookmark manager that allows you to categorize and organize all your bookmarks in one place. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the installation process of LinkAce on macOS.

Prerequisites

Before you start, you need to ensure that the following components are already installed on your machine:

• PHP 7.4 or higher
• Composer
• MySQL or MariaDB
• Apache or Nginx

Installation Process

1. Download and extract the latest version of LinkAce from the official website.

2. Navigate to the extracted folder and install the required dependencies by running the following command:

composer install

3. Copy the .env.example file to .env and modify the necessary configuration options, such as the database credentials.

cp .env.example .env

4. Generate the application key by running the following command:

php artisan key:generate

5. Run the database migrations using the following command:

php artisan migrate --seed

6. Create a virtual host file for LinkAce.

If you are using Apache, open the httpd-vhosts.conf file and add the following lines:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName linkace.test
    DocumentRoot "/path/to/linkace/public/"
    <Directory "/path/to/linkace/public/">
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Note: Replace /path/to/linkace with the actual path to the folder where LinkAce is extracted.

If you are using Nginx, open your server block configuration file and add the following lines:

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name linkace.test;
    root "/path/to/linkace/public";
    index index.php

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
        try_files $uri =404;
        fastcgi_pass  127.0.0.1:9000;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        include fastcgi_params;
    }
}

Note: Replace /path/to/linkace with the actual path to the folder where LinkAce is extracted.

7. Restart Apache or Nginx to apply the changes to the configuration file.

If you are using Apache, run the following command:

sudo apachectl restart

If you are using Nginx, run the following command:

sudo service nginx restart

8. You can now access the LinkAce application by visiting the URL http://linkace.test in your web browser.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install LinkAce on macOS. You can now start using LinkAce as your bookmark manager to keep track of all your saved links in one place.

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