OpenNote is an open-source web-based application for note-taking. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install OpenNote on the nixOS operating system.
Before we start, make sure you have the following:
Follow these steps to install OpenNote on your nixOS instance:
Nix is a package manager for nixOS. If you don't have it installed, run the following command to install it:
$ sudo wget https://nixos.org/nix/install -O install-nix.sh
$ sh ./install-nix.sh
We need to clone the OpenNote repository to access the required files.
$ git clone https://github.com/FoxUSA/OpenNote.git
OpenNote requires a database to store its data. We will install MySQL.
$ nix-env -i mysql
Create a new database and user for OpenNote:
$ mysql -uroot -p
mysql> create database opennote;
mysql> grant all on opennote.* to 'opennote'@'localhost' identified by 'yourpassword';
mysql> flush privileges;
mysql> exit;
Update the OpenNote configuration file with the database credentials:
$ cd OpenNote/src/application/config
$ cp database.sample.php database.php
$ nano database.php
Replace the database details with the following:
$db['default']['hostname'] = 'localhost';
$db['default']['username'] = 'opennote';
$db['default']['password'] = 'yourpassword';
$db['default']['database'] = 'opennote';
OpenNote is a web-based application, so we need to install an HTTP server. We will install Apache.
$ nix-env -i apache
We need to create a virtual host for OpenNote:
$ cd /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/
$ nano opennote.conf
Add the following lines to the file:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName yourdomainname.com
ServerAlias www.yourdomainname.com
DocumentRoot /path/to/OpenNote
<Directory "/path/to/OpenNote">
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Save and exit the file.
Run the following command to restart the Apache server with the new configuration:
$ sudo systemctl restart apache
Open a web browser and navigate to the following URL:
http://yourdomainname.com
You should see the OpenNote web interface. Login with the default username and password:
Username: admin
Password: admin123
In this tutorial, we learned how to install OpenNote on nixOS latest version. You can now start using OpenNote to manage your notes.
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