Typemill is a flat-file CMS that works seamlessly to turn your Markdown files into HTML pages. For those using NixOS, installing Typemill is a breeze. Follow these instructions.
Before you can install Typemill on NixOS, ensure you have a few things in place:
Begin by downloading Typemill into your preferred directory. You can use curl
to download it.
sudo curl -sL https://get.typemill.net | sh
This will download Typemill as a ZIP file.
Once downloaded, navigate to the directory containing the Typemill ZIP file and extract it using the following command:
sudo unzip typemill.zip -d /opt/
This will extract the Typemill files into the /opt/
folder.
Create a new system user for Typemill with the following command:
sudo useradd --system --shell /sbin/nologin typemill
Assign the typemill
user ownership of the /opt/typemill
folder to allow them full access to it:
sudo chown -R typemill:typemill /opt/typemill
Create a new Typemill service to manage the start/stop actions using the following command:
sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/typemill.service
Add the following contents to the file:
[Unit]
Description=Typemill
After=syslog.target network.target
[Service]
Type=simple
User=typemill
Group=typemill
WorkingDirectory=/opt/typemill
ExecStart=/opt/typemill/bin/typemill start
ExecStop=/opt/typemill/bin/typemill stop
Restart=on-failure
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Save the file.
Reload systemd
with the following command to reflect the changes you made to the system:
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
To start the Typemill service, execute the following command:
sudo systemctl start typemill
To start the Typemill service at boot, run the following command:
sudo systemctl enable typemill
To ensure that Typemill is running, navigate to the Typemill URL in your browser. The Typemill dashboard should load up, signifying that the CMS is running successfully.
In this tutorial, we have shown how to install Typemill on NixOS. With a few simple commands, you can have your flat-file CMS up and running in no time.
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