Live Helper Chat is a free customer support chat software that allows businesses to communicate with their customers in real-time. In this tutorial, we will guide you on how to install Live Helper Chat on NixOS Latest operating system.
Before we begin, you need to ensure that you have:
sudo privileges.The first step is to install the required packages for Live Helper Chat to work. Open your terminal and run the following command as a sudo user:
sudo nix-env -iA nixos.php nixos.phpPackages.php-fpm nixos.nginx-full
The above command installs PHP and NGINX as dependencies.
In this step, we will configure PHP for Live Helper Chat to work correctly. Run the following commands in your terminal as a sudo user:
sudo nano /etc/nixos/configuration.nix
Add the following line to your configuration file:
php.memoryLimit = "256M";
Save and close the file.
Next, run the following command as a sudo user:
sudo nixos-rebuild switch
This command applies changes made to your configuration.nix file.
In this step, we will download and install Live Helper Chat. Open your terminal and run the following commands as a sudo user:
cd /var/www
sudo git clone -b master https://github.com/LiveHelperChat/livehelperchat.git
sudo chown -R nginx:nginx livehelperchat
sudo chmod -R 755 livehelperchat
The above commands create a directory for Live Helper Chat and change ownership and permissions.
In this step, we will configure NGINX for Live Helper Chat. Run the following command as a sudo user:
sudo nano /etc/nginx/conf.d/livehelperchat.conf
Add the following to the file:
server {
listen 80;
server_name chat.example.com;
root /var/www/livehelperchat;
index index.php;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
}
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
}
Make sure to replace chat.example.com with your domain name.
Save and close the file.
In this step, we will start the required services. Run the following commands in your terminal as a sudo user:
sudo systemctl enable php-fpm
sudo systemctl start php-fpm
sudo systemctl enable nginx
sudo systemctl start nginx
The above commands start PHP and NGINX services.
You can now access Live Helper Chat by visiting http://chat.example.com in your web browser. Make sure to replace chat.example.com with your domain name.
In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install Live Helper Chat on NixOS Latest operating system. Now you can communicate with your customers in real-time!
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