Revive Adserver is a popular open-source ad server that enables publishers and advertisers to serve and manage ads on their websites. If you're looking to install Revive Adserver on NixOS, this tutorial will walk you through the process step-by-step:
Open a terminal window on your NixOS system, and log in as the system administrator.
Run the following command to update the package repositories:
nix-shell -p nixos-rebuild -p wget --run "sudo nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade && sudo nix-channel --update"
nix-env -i mariadb php nginx
sudo systemctl start mariadb
/usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation
When you run the second command, it will prompt you to set the password for the root user. Once you have set the password, follow the on-screen prompts to secure your installation.
wget https://download.revive-adserver.com/revive-adserver-5.0.5.tar.gz
tar -zxvf revive-adserver-5.0.5.tar.gz
sudo mv revive-adserver-5.0.5 /var/www/revive-adserver
revive-adserver
directory to the system's webserver user:sudo chown -R nginx:nginx /var/www/revive-adserver
sudo nano /etc/nginx/conf.d/revive.conf
server {
listen 80;
server_name example.com; #Replace with your domain name
root /var/www/revive-adserver/www;
index index.php;
error_log /var/log/nginx/revive.error.log;
access_log /var/log/nginx/revive.access.log;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.sock;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;
}
}
Save the file and exit the editor.
Now, reload Nginx to apply the new configuration:
sudo systemctl reload nginx
example.com
, go to http://example.com/www/admin/install.php
and follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation.Congratulations! You have successfully installed Revive Adserver on NixOS Latest.
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