Umbraco is an open-source content management system (CMS) used for creating and maintaining websites. In this tutorial, we will guide you on how to install Umbraco on nixOS Latest.
First, we need to install the necessary dependencies on our system. These include .NET Core, a web server, and a package manager.
Run the following command in your terminal to install the dependencies:
$ sudo nix-env -i dotnet-sdk-3.1
$ sudo nix-env -i nginx
$ sudo nix-env -i yarn
Go to the official Umbraco website at https://umbraco.com/ and download the package.
Once you have downloaded the package, extract it into the /var/www
directory with the following command:
$ sudo unzip ~/Downloads/umbraco*.zip -d /var/www/umbraco
Umbraco requires a SQL Server database for storing its content. We will use MySQL for this.
Install MySQL using the following command:
$ sudo nix-env -i mysql
Then, create a new database by running:
$ mysql -uroot -p
CREATE DATABASE umbraco;
CREATE USER 'umbraco'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON umbraco.* TO 'umbraco'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Navigate to the /var/www/umbraco
directory where we extracted the package.
Create a new file appsettings.json
with the following command:
$ sudo nano appsettings.json
Add the following code to the file:
{
"ConnectionStrings": {
"umbracoDbDSN": "Server=localhost;Database=umbraco;User Id=umbraco;Password=password;"
}
}
Configure the nginx
web server to serve the Umbraco application. Edit the /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
file with the following command:
$ sudo nano /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
Add the following server block to the end of the file:
server {
listen 80;
server_name yourdomain.com;
location / {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:5000;
proxy_redirect off;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
}
location /umbraco {
alias /var/www/umbraco/;
index index.html;
}
}
Restart Nginx service using the following command:
$ sudo systemctl restart nginx
Navigate to the /var/www/umbraco
directory and run the following command to build and run the application:
$ sudo dotnet build
$ sudo dotnet run
Umbraco should now be accessible in your web browser at http://localhost/umbraco
.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Umbraco on nixOS Latest.
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