Installing Oddmuse on Alpine Linux Latest
Oddmuse is a lightweight and flexible wiki engine that allows you to quickly create and manage wikis. In this tutorial, we'll go through the process of installing Oddmuse on Alpine Linux latest.
Prerequisites
Before we begin, make sure you have the following:
- A running instance of Alpine Linux latest
- Root access
Step 1: Install dependencies
Oddmuse requires a few dependencies to work properly. We'll start by installing them using Alpine's package manager:
apk update
apk add perl libwww-perl libdbd-sqlite perl-dbd-sqlite
Step 2: Download and extract Oddmuse
Next, download the latest version of Oddmuse from the official website (https://oddmuse.org/) using wget and extract it to your desired location:
wget https://oddmuse.org/download/OddMuse-latest.tar.gz
tar -xzvf OddMuse-latest.tar.gz -C /var/www/html/
Once extracted, rename the directory to something you can easily remember:
mv /var/www/html/OddMuse-* /var/www/html/oddmuse
Step 3: Configure Oddmuse
Oddmuse comes with a sample config file that you can use as a starting point. Copy the sample config file to a new file called config:
cd /var/www/html/oddmuse
cp config-sample.pl config.pl
Next, open the config.pl file in your favorite text editor and make the following changes:
Set the value of
$DataDirto a writable directory where you want Oddmuse to store data. For example:$DataDir = '/var/www/html/oddmuse/data';Set the value of
$UrlHostto the URL of your Oddmuse installation. For example:$UrlHost = 'http://example.com/oddmuse';
Save and close the file.
Step 4: Configure the web server
Oddmuse relies on a web server to serve pages to visitors. In this step, we'll configure nginx as the web server.
If you don't have nginx installed, you can install it using Alpine's package manager:
apk add nginx
Next, create a new nginx configuration file for Oddmuse:
cd /etc/nginx/conf.d
touch oddmuse.conf
Open the oddmuse.conf file in your favorite text editor and add the following server block:
server {
listen 80;
server_name example.com;
root /var/www/html/oddmuse;
index index.cgi;
location / {
gzip off;
include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/fcgiwrap.socket;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
}
}
Make sure to replace example.com with your own domain name.
Save and close the file.
Step 5: Start the web server and test Oddmuse
Start the nginx web server:
rc-service nginx start
Visit http://example.com/index.cgi (replace example.com with your own domain name) in your web browser, and you should see the Oddmuse homepage.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Oddmuse on Alpine Linux Latest. From here, you can customize Oddmuse to suit your needs, and begin creating and managing your own wikis.