In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing Orange Forum on nixOS Latest using the official website https://www.goodoldweb.com/
Before we begin, you must have a nixOS Latest system with a valid internet connection. You must also have administrative privileges to install packages and system dependencies.
Since it is always a good practice to update the system, we will do the same by running the following command in the terminal:
sudo nixos-rebuild switch
This command will update the system and download the necessary packages.
Orange Forum requires several dependencies that are not present in the default nixOS Latest installation. To install these dependencies, run the following command:
sudo nix-env -i python python2 python2-pip python3 python3-pip postgresql
This command will install Python 2 and 3, Pip, and Postgresql.
Now we will download and extract the Orange Forum package from https://www.goodoldweb.com/
sudo mkdir -p /var/www
cd /var/www
sudo wget https://www.goodoldweb.com/items/orangepy-1.3.3.zip
sudo unzip orangepy-1.3.3.zip
Next, we will create a virtual environment for the Orange Forum application.
sudo pip2 install virtualenvwrapper
echo "export WORKON_HOME=$HOME/.virtualenvs" >> ~/.bashrc
echo "export VIRTUALENVWRAPPER_PYTHON=/usr/bin/python2" >> ~/.bashrc
echo "source /usr/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh" >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc
mkvirtualenv orangeenv
Now we will install the dependencies required by Orange Forum.
workon orangeenv
cd /var/www/orangepy/app/
sudo pip install -r requirements.txt
Orange Forum requires a Postgresql database. Let's create a new user and database for this purpose.
sudo su postgres
createuser orangeuser
createdb orangeforum
sudo psql
ALTER USER orangeuser WITH PASSWORD 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE orangeforum TO orangeuser;
\q
exit
Finally, we will configure Orange Forum by editing the configuration files.
cd /var/www/orangepy/app/
cp local_settings.py.template local_settings.py
nano local_settings.py
Change the following lines in the file with your database settings:
DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2',
'NAME': 'orangeforum',
'USER': 'orangeuser',
'PASSWORD': 'password',
'HOST': 'localhost',
'PORT': '',
}
}
We are now ready to run Orange Forum.
cd /var/www/orangepy/app/
workon orangeenv
python manage.py syncdb
python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000
Open your browser and go to http://localhost:8000/ to access the Orange Forum application.
We have successfully installed Orange Forum on nixOS Latest. You can now customize and use it for your needs.
If you want to self-host in an easy, hands free way, need an external IP address, or simply want your data in your own hands, give IPv6.rs a try!
Alternatively, for the best virtual desktop, try Shells!