Indico is an open-source, event management software that can help you organize conferences, workshops, meetings, and lectures. In this tutorial, we will explain how to install Indico on NixOS, a Linux distribution that follows a pure functional programming paradigm.
To follow this tutorial, you need:
Before installing Indico, make sure that your system is updated to the latest version of packages by running the following command:
sudo nixos-rebuild switch
Then, you need to install the necessary packages required by Indico:
sudo nix-env -iA nixpkgs.python39Packages.pip
sudo nix-env -iA nixpkgs.python39Packages.virtualenvwrapper
sudo nix-env -iA nixpkgs.postgresql
The first command installs Python's pip package manager, which we will use to install Indico. The second command installs virtualenvwrapper, which is needed to create a virtual environment for the Indico installation. The third command installs PostgreSQL database server, which is used by Indico to store the configuration and event data.
Next, create a virtual environment for the Indico installation:
mkdir ~/.virtualenvs && cd ~/.virtualenvs
mkvirtualenv -p /nix/store/<PYTHON_PATH>/bin/python indico
Replace
which python
The second command creates a virtual environment named "indico" with the specified Python version.
Activate the virtual environment you just created:
workon indico
Now, install the Indico package using pip:
pip install indico
This command will download and install the latest stable version of Indico if it is available.
Before running Indico, you need to configure PostgreSQL to create a database and user for Indico. First, log in to the PostgreSQL server:
sudo -u postgres psql
Now, create a database and user for Indico using the following commands:
CREATE USER indico WITH PASSWORD 'indico';
CREATE DATABASE indico OWNER indico;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE indico TO indico;
\q
Replace 'indico' with your desired username and password.
To configure Indico, we need to create a configuration file. Navigate to the Indico virtual environment directory and create a file named "indico.conf" using your favorite editor:
cd ~/.virtualenvs/indico/src/indico
nano indico.conf
Copy the following configuration to the file:
INDICO_CONFIG = {
'SECRET_KEY': 'YourSecretKeyHere',
'SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI': 'postgresql://indico:indico@localhost:5432/indico',
'CACHE_TYPE': 'redis',
'CACHE_REDIS_URL': 'redis://localhost:6379/0',
'CELERY_BROKER_URL': 'amqp://guest:guest@localhost:5672//'
}
Replace 'YourSecretKeyHere' with a random, secure string.
Note: The above configuration is a minimal working configuration that uses Redis cache and an AMQP message broker for Celery. You can modify it as per your requirements.
Before running Indico, you need to initialize the database using the following command:
indico db prepare
Finally, you can start the Indico server using the following command:
indico web --host localhost --port 8000
You can access the Indico application by navigating to http://localhost:8000 in your web browser. You should see the Indico homepage displaying "No events found".
In this tutorial, we explained how to install Indico on NixOS Latest, create a PostgreSQL database and user, configure Indico, and run the Indico server. You can customize Indico further by exploring its numerous configuration options and plugins.
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