Commento is a self-hosted, privacy-focused, and modern comment engine. It is an open-source software that can be easily installed on NixOS.
This tutorial will guide you through the process of installing Commento on NixOS Latest.
If you haven't already, you need to install Nix on your system. Nix is a package manager that provides atomic upgrades and rollbacks, and it is used to install and manage packages on NixOS.
To install Nix, run the following command in your terminal:
curl https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh
You also need Git installed on your system to clone the Commento repository.
To install Git, run the following command in your terminal:
nix-env -i git
Now that you have Git installed, you can download the Commento code from its official repository.
To clone the Commento repository, run the following command in your terminal:
git clone https://gitlab.com/commento/commento.git
This command will clone the Commento repository to your current directory.
Before running Commento, you need to configure it to use your desired settings.
To configure Commento, navigate to the cloned repository and copy the commento.example.conf
file to a new file named commento.conf
:
cd commento/
cp commento.example.conf commento.conf
Then, edit the commento.conf
file using your favorite text editor and configure it to use your desired settings.
For example, you can change the port
setting to use 80
instead of the default 8080
:
[http]
port = 80
To build Commento, run the following command in your terminal:
nix-build
This command will build Commento and create a symlink to the resulting binaries at /nix/store/<hash>-commento/bin/commento
.
The <hash>
part of the path represents a unique identifier for the built Commento package.
To run Commento, execute the following command in your terminal:
/nix/store/<hash>-commento/bin/commento
Replace <hash>
with the unique identifier from the previous step.
This command will start Commento and make it available on your system at http://localhost
.
You have successfully installed Commento on NixOS Latest! You can now use Commento to host comments on your website or blog.
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