This tutorial will guide you through the steps required to install the Blog application from https://github.com/m1k1o/blog on NixOS Latest.
Before we begin, make sure you have the following:
Start by cloning the blog repository from GitHub. Open a terminal and run the following command:
git clone https://github.com/m1k1o/blog
This will clone the repository to your current directory.
If you have not yet installed Nix, you can install it by running the following command:
sudo sh <(curl https://nixos.org/nix/install) --daemon
Create a new NixOS configuration file by running the following command:
sudo nano /etc/nixos/configuration.nix
Add the following lines to the configuration file:
{ config, pkgs, ... }:
{
imports =
[ # Include the results of the hardware scan.
/etc/nixos/hardware-configuration.nix
];
environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
git
nodejs
vim
# Add any other packages you might need
];
services.httpd = {
enable = true;
documentRoot = "/var/www";
adminAddr = "admin@example.com";
virtualHosts."blog.example.com" = {
documentRoot = "/var/www/blog";
extraConfig = ''
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) http://localhost:3000$1 [P]
'';
};
};
systemd.services.blog = {
description = "Blog Service";
after = [ "network.target" ];
# Add any other environment variables you need
environment = {
PORT = "3000";
NODE_ENV = "production";
};
# Change this to the actual path of the cloned repository
execStart = "${pkgs.nodejs}/bin/node /path/to/cloned/repository/bin/www";
# Add any other dependencies you might need
requires = [ "network.target" ];
type = "simple";
user = "root";
};
}
Replace /path/to/cloned/repository/
with the actual path to the cloned blog repository.
The above configuration installs the required packages, sets up an HTTP server with a redirect to the blog service running on port 3000
, and starts the blog service as a systemd service.
Activate the new configuration using the following command:
sudo nixos-rebuild switch
This will rebuild and switch to the new configuration.
To run the blog application, navigate to the cloned repository directory and run the following command:
npm start
This will start the application on port 3000
.
In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install the Blog application on NixOS Latest. With this knowledge, you can easily host your own blog and customize it to your liking.
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