FlatPress is a lightweight and user-friendly blogging platform that enables users to create and manage their own blogs. In this tutorial, we will walk you through the process of installing FlatPress on nixOS Latest.
Before you begin, you will need:
Log in to your nixOS Latest server as the root user.
Install the wget
package if it is not already installed:
nix-env -i wget
Download the latest version of FlatPress using the wget
command:
wget http://www.flatpress.org/files/flatpress-latest.zip
Extract the downloaded archive using the unzip
command:
unzip flatpress-latest.zip -d /var/www/
Navigate to the FlatPress installation directory:
cd /var/www/flatpress
Edit the fp-config.php
file and enter the database details:
nano fp-config.php
Replace the following parameters with your MySQL/MariaDB database credentials:
define('FP_DB_USER', 'username');
define('FP_DB_PASS', 'password');
define('FP_DB_NAME', 'database_name');
define('FP_DB_HOST', 'localhost');
define('FP_TABLE_PREFIX', 'fp_');
Save and close the file.
Change the ownership of the FlatPress directory and files to the web server user (www-data
for Apache, nginx
for Nginx):
chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/flatpress
Set the appropriate permissions for the FlatPress directories and files:
chmod -R 755 /var/www/flatpress
Start your web server:
systemctl start nginx (or apache2)
Open your web browser and enter the URL for your FlatPress installation (http://your-server-ip/flatpress). You should see the FlatPress installation wizard.
Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed FlatPress on nixOS Latest. You can now log in to the FlatPress admin dashboard and start managing your blog.
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