How to Install Moonmoon on macOS

Moonmoon is a web-based aggregator that helps you keep up to date with all of your favourite websites in one place. It's perfect for anyone who wants to stay up to date without having to constantly jump from website to website. In this tutorial, we'll walk you through the steps to install Moonmoon on macOS.

Prerequisites

To install Moonmoon on your macOS device, you'll need to have the following:

• A terminal (command line interface)
• PHP 5.6 or higher installed
• Git installed

If any of these are not already installed on your system, then you can easily download them from the internet.

Steps

1. Open your terminal application on your macOS device. You can do this by searching for "Terminal" in the Spotlight search bar, or by navigating to your Applications folder and opening it from there.

2. Once the terminal application is open, you'll need to navigate to the directory where you want to install Moonmoon. You can do this by typing the following command:

cd /path/to/directory

Replace /path/to/directory with the path to the directory where you want to install Moonmoon.

3. Once you're in the directory where you want to install Moonmoon, you'll need to clone the Moonmoon repository from Github. To do this, type the following command:

git clone https://github.com/mauricecruz/moonmoon.git

This will clone the entire Moonmoon repository into the current directory.

4. Next, you'll need to navigate to the moonmoon directory that was just created in the previous step. You can do this by typing the following command:

cd moonmoon

5. Now that you're in the moonmoon directory, you'll need to install the necessary dependencies. To do this, type the following command:

composer install

This will install all of the necessary dependencies required for Moonmoon to work.

6. Once that's done, you'll need to configure Moonmoon. To do this, you'll need to create a new file called .env in the moonmoon directory. You can do this by typing the following command:

cp .env.example .env

This will copy the example configuration file and create a new file called .env.

7. Now that the .env file has been created, you'll need to edit it and configure it for your system. To do this, open the .env file in your favourite text editor and modify the following settings:

APP_DEBUG=false
APP_ENV=production
APP_KEY=base64:<random string>
APP_NAME=Moonmoon

CACHE_DRIVER=file
SESSION_DRIVER=file
QUEUE_DRIVER=sync

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=moonmoon
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=

Replace DB_DATABASE, DB_USERNAME, and DB_PASSWORD with your own database details.

8. Save the .env file and close your text editor.

9. Next, you'll need to run the database migrations. To do this, type the following command:

php artisan migrate

This will create the necessary tables in the database.

10. Finally, to start Moonmoon, type the following command:

php artisan serve

This will start the Moonmoon server on your localhost. You can now access Moonmoon by opening your web browser and navigating to http://localhost:8000.

Congratulations! You've now successfully installed Moonmoon on your macOS device.

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