Seafile is a file synchronization and collaboration platform that lets you store and manage your files on your own server. In this tutorial, we will guide you on how to install Seafile on NixOS latest.
Before starting the installation process, make sure that you have the following:
The first step is to install the required software packages that are needed to run Seafile. To do this, open a terminal and run the following command:
sudo nix-env -iA nixos.mysql nixos.libev nixos.redis nixos.python38 nixos.uwsgi
This command installs the required packages on your NixOS server.
After installing the required software packages, the next step is to download Seafile. To do this, visit the Seafile download page and download the latest version of Seafile for Linux:
wget https://bintray.com/artifact/download/seafile-org/seafile/seafile-server_{version}_x86-64.tar.gz
Replace {version} with the latest version of Seafile, which can be found on the download page.
Once the download is complete, unzip the downloaded file using the following command:
tar -xzf seafile-server_{version}_x86-64.tar.gz
Next, move the extracted seafile-server directory to the /opt directory:
sudo mv seafile-server /opt/
Create a new directory where Seafile can store its data:
sudo mkdir /var/lib/seafile
Change the permissions of the newly created directory to allow access to the user running Seafile:
sudo chown -R seafile:seafile /var/lib/seafile/
Copy the conf directory from the seafile-server directory to the /etc directory:
sudo cp -r /opt/seafile-server/conf /etc/seafile
Next, navigate to the /etc/seafile directory and edit the seafile.conf file:
sudo nano /etc/seafile/seafile.conf
Configure Seafile by modifying the values in the seafile.conf file as follows:
fileserver-port to 8082.database to mysql.mysql-host to localhost.mysql-port to 3306.mysql-user to your_mysql_username.mysql-password to your_mysql_password.id to your_seafile_account.name to your_seafile_account_name.server_name to your_server_name.Save and close the file.
Next, create a new database and user in MySQL for Seafile. To do this, log in to the MySQL console as root:
sudo mysql -u root -p
You will be prompted to enter the MySQL root user password. Once you have successfully logged in, create a new database and user with the following commands:
CREATE DATABASE seafile_db CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_general_ci;
CREATE USER 'seafile'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'your_seafile_password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON seafile_db.* TO 'seafile'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'your_seafile_password';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;
Replace your_seafile_password with a strong password for the Seafile user.
The final step is to start the Seafile server. To do this, navigate to the /opt/seafile-server/seafile directory and run the following command:
sudo ./seahub.sh start-fastcgi
This command starts Seafile and launches the Seafile web interface. You can now access the Seafile web interface by visiting http://your_server_name:8000 in your web browser.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Seafile on NixOS latest. You can now start using Seafile to store and manage your files.
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