Shaarli is a self-hosted bookmarking application that can help you manage and organize your bookmarks. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Shaarli on a macOS operating system.
Shaarli is hosted on GitHub, so you will need to install Git on your macOS machine to fetch the source code.
To install Git, open the Terminal app and run the following command:
$ brew install git
If you do not have Homebrew installed on your machine, you can install it from the official website: https://brew.sh/
After Git is installed, the next step is to clone the Shaarli repository from GitHub.
Open the Terminal app and navigate to the directory where you want to clone Shaarli. Then, run the following command:
$ git clone https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli.git
The above command will clone the Shaarli repository to your current directory.
To configure Shaarli, navigate to the root directory of the cloned repository and open the config.php file.
$ cd Shaarli/
$ cp config.default.php config.php
$ nano config.php
You can modify the configuration options according to your preference. The most important configuration options include the database connection details and security settings.
To run Shaarli, you need to set up a web server such as Apache or Nginx.
If you are using Apache, make sure that the mod_rewrite module is enabled. You can enable it by running the following command:
$ sudo a2enmod rewrite
Next, create a new virtual host configuration file for Shaarli:
$ cd /etc/apache2/sites-available/
$ sudo nano shaarli.conf
Paste the following configuration into the file:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName example.com
DocumentRoot /path/to/Shaarli/
<Directory /path/to/Shaarli/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/shaarli_error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/shaarli_access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Make sure to replace example.com with your own domain name and path/to/Shaarli/ with the actual path where Shaarli is installed.
Finally, enable the new virtual host configuration and restart Apache:
$ sudo a2ensite shaarli.conf
$ sudo systemctl restart apache2
If you are using Nginx, create a new virtual host configuration file for Shaarli:
$ cd /etc/nginx/sites-available/
$ sudo nano shaarli
Paste the following configuration into the file:
server {
listen 80;
server_name example.com;
root /path/to/Shaarli;
index index.php;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.1-fpm.sock;
}
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
}
Make sure to replace example.com with your own domain name and path/to/Shaarli/ with the actual path where Shaarli is installed.
Finally, enable the new virtual host configuration and restart Nginx:
$ sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/shaarli /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
$ sudo systemctl restart nginx
Next, create a database for Shaarli using MySQL or MariaDB. You can use the following commands to create a new database and user:
$ sudo mysql -u root -p
mysql> CREATE DATABASE shaarli;
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON shaarli.* TO 'shaarli'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'your_password';
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
mysql> EXIT;
Make sure to replace your_password with your own password.
Finally, navigate to the Shaarli installation page in your web browser:
http://example.com/index.php
Follow the instructions on the screen to complete the installation process. You will need to enter the database connection information and create a new admin account.
After the installation is complete, Shaarli should be up and running on your macOS machine.
In this tutorial, you learned how to install Shaarli on a macOS operating system. Shaarli is a powerful bookmarking application that can help you organize and manage your bookmarks.
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