Installing Umbraco on nixOS Latest

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.

Step 1: Install necessary dependencies

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

Step 2: Download the Umbraco package

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

Step 3: Setup the database

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;

Step 4: Configure Umbraco

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

Step 5: Run Umbraco

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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