How to Install MiAOU on NixOS Latest

MiAOU is a chat and forum software that runs on NodeJS. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install MiAOU on NixOS Latest using the command line.

Prerequisites

To install MiAOU, you will need:

• A server or VPS running NixOS Latest
• SSH access to the server
• An active internet connection

Step 1 - Install NodeJS

The first step is to install NodeJS on your NixOS server. NodeJS is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine.

To install NodeJS, open your terminal and run the following command:

$ sudo nix-env -i nodejs

This will install NodeJS on your server.

Step 2 - Download and Install MiAOU

Next, we need to download and install MiAOU on our server. To do this, run the following command:

$ git clone https://github.com/Canop/miaou.git

This will download the latest version of MiAOU from GitHub. Once the download completes, navigate to the miaou directory using the following command:

$ cd miaou

Now, we need to install the dependencies required by MiAOU. To do this, run the following command:

$ npm install

This will install all the required dependencies for MiAOU.

Step 3 - Configure MiAOU

After installing MiAOU, we need to configure it by creating a configuration file. You can choose any name for the configuration file, but we will use config.json in this tutorial.

To create the configuration file, run the following command:

$ nano config.json

This will open the Nano editor. Copy the following configuration code and paste it into the editor:

{
  "db": {
    "host": "localhost",
    "user": "miaou",
    "password": "miaou",
    "database": "miaou"
  },
  "httpPort": 8080,
  "cookieSecret": "your-cookie-secret-here",
  "mainRoom": "8",
  "feedbackEmail": "your-email@example.com"
}

Update the configuration values as per your requirements. Once done, save and close the file.

Step 4 - Start MiAOU

Finally, we are ready to start MiAOU using the following command:

$ npm start

This will start MiAOU and create the required database tables. Once the process completes, you can access your MiAOU instance by opening your web browser and navigating to http://your-server-IP:8080.

Conclusion

That's it – you now have MiAOU installed on your NixOS Latest server. Have fun chatting and posting on your new forum!

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