Squidex is an open-source headless CMS that enables users to create, manage and publish content to any platform. In this tutorial, we'll show you how to install Squidex on the latest version of NixOS.
Before we begin, make sure your NixOS system has the following:
To install Squidex on NixOS, we need to add the Squidex repository as a channel in the system's configuration file. Open the terminal and enter the following command:
sudo nix-channel --add https://github.com/squidex/squidex-nixpkgs/archive/master.tar.gz squidex
Next, update your NixOS system:
sudo nixos-rebuild switch
Alternatively, you can install Squidex via the command line:
sudo nix-env -iA nixos.squidex
Once Squidex is installed, we need to configure it to work with our system. To do that, create the directory /etc/nixos/:
sudo mkdir -p /etc/nixos/
Then, create a new configuration file for Squidex:
sudo nano /etc/nixos/squidex.nix
Add the following content to the file:
{
services.squidex = {
enable = true;
domain = "example.com";
};
}
(Note: Change the domain name to your domain name.)
Save and exit the file.
Restart your NixOS system to load the new configuration:
sudo nixos-rebuild switch
After the reboot, start Squidex as follows:
sudo systemctl start squidex
Verify that Squidex is up and running:
sudo systemctl status squidex
If everything looks good, enable Squidex to start automatically at system startup:
sudo systemctl enable squidex
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Squidex on your NixOS system. To access the Squidex web interface, open your browser and navigate to http://example.com:5000.
In this tutorial, we've shown you how to install Squidex on the latest version of NixOS. We hope this has been helpful to you. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to leave them in the comments section below.
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