In this tutorial, we will go through the process of installing yarn.social on NixOS Latest. Yarn.social is a decentralized social network that allows users to connect and share content securely without the involvement of centralized corporations.
Before we start, you need to have the following things ready:
To install yarn.social, we need to have some dependencies pre-installed. Open up a terminal window and type the following command:
$ sudo nix-env -iA nixos.nodejs-10_x
This command installs node.js version 10.x, which is required for yarn.social to function.
Download the yarn.social package from https://yarn.social. Unzip the package and move it to your preferred location. We will move it to /var/www
.
$ sudo mkdir /var/www
$ sudo unzip yarn-social-release.zip -d /var/www/
We need to configure the NixOS web server to serve the yarn.social application. Open up the NixOS configuration file located at /etc/nixos/configuration.nix
.
$ sudo nano /etc/nixos/configuration.nix
In the server
section, add a new virtual host configuration for yarn.social like this:
services.httpd.virtualHosts."yarn.social" = {
enableACME = true; // Use ACME for SSL/TLS encryption
forceSSL = true; // Redirect HTTP requests to HTTPS
enableHTTPS = true;
hostName = "yarn.social"; // Domain name for the website
root = "/var/www/yarn-social-0.1.0"; // Root directory of the application
locations = {
"/api" = {
proxyPass = "http://localhost:4000"; // Proxy all API requests to port 4000
proxyWebsockets = true; // Enable websockets for real-time communication
};
"/" = {
tryFiles = [ "/index.html" "/index.htm" "/default.html" "/default.htm" ]; // Serve static files from the root directory
};
};
}
Save and close the file.
Restart the NixOS web server to apply the changes we made.
$ sudo nixos-rebuild switch
$ sudo systemctl restart httpd
Now that the web server is running, you can access the yarn.social application by visiting https://yarn.social in your web browser.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed yarn.social on NixOS Latest.
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