How to Install Antville on EndeavourOS Latest

Antville is a free, open-source content management system that allows users to create and manage a blog or website. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Antville on EndeavourOS Latest.

Prerequisites

Before installing Antville, make sure your system meets the following requirements:

• EndeavourOS Latest installed on your system
• Root user access

Step 1: Install Java Runtime Environment (JRE)

Antville is a Java-based application, so you need to install Java Runtime Environment (JRE) on your system.

Open the terminal and update the package list by running the following command.

sudo pacman -Syu

Now, install the JRE package.

sudo pacman -S jre-openjdk

Verify the installation of JRE by running the following command.

java -version

You should see the Java version installed on your system.

Step 2: Install Tomcat Server

Antville requires a Java-based web server to run, so we will install the Tomcat server.

Install the Tomcat package by running the following command.

sudo pacman -S tomcat

By default, Tomcat is installed in /usr/share/tomcat directory. Verify the installation of Tomcat by running the following command.

sudo systemctl status tomcat

You should see the status of Tomcat service as active.

Step 3: Download and Install Antville

Now, download the Antville installation package from the official website.

wget https://github.com/antville/antville/releases/download/1.2.1/antville_1.2.1.tar.gz

Extract the downloaded package.

tar -zxvf antville_1.2.1.tar.gz

Copy the extracted antville-1.2.1 directory to the Tomcat webapps directory.

sudo cp -r antville-1.2.1 /usr/share/tomcat/webapps/antville

Step 4: Configure Antville

Open the server.xml file in the Tomcat conf directory.

sudo nano /etc/tomcat/server.xml

Find the following section:

<Host name="localhost"  appBase="webapps"
    unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true">

Add the following section just below it.

<Context path="/antville" docBase="/usr/share/tomcat/webapps/antville/" crossContext="true">
   <Resource name="jdbc/antville" scope="Shareable" auth="Container"
             type="javax.sql.DataSource"
        driverClassName="org.postgresql.Driver"
        url="jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/antville"
        username="antville"
        password="antville"
        maxActive="20"
        maxIdle="10"
        maxWait="-1"/>
</Context>

Save and close the file.

Restart the Tomcat service to apply the changes.

sudo systemctl restart tomcat

Step 5: Configure the Database

Antville stores its data in a PostgreSQL database. Install the PostgreSQL database.

sudo pacman -S postgresql

Initialize the PostgreSQL database.

sudo su - postgres -c "initdb --locale $LANG -E UTF8 -D '/var/lib/postgres/data'"

Start the PostgreSQL service.

sudo systemctl start postgresql.service

Create a new user and database for Antville.

sudo -u postgres createuser -d -l -P antville
sudo -u postgres createdb -E UTF8 -O antville antville

Import the Antville database schema.

sudo -u antville psql -f /usr/share/tomcat/webapps/antville/sql/postgres/antville-schema-create.sql antville
sudo -u antville psql -f /usr/share/tomcat/webapps/antville/sql/postgres/antville-schema-data.sql antville

Step 6: Access Antville

Now, open your browser and navigate to http://localhost:8080/antville.

You should see the Antville welcome page.

To login to the Antville admin panel, navigate to http://localhost:8080/antville/admin.

Use the default username and password to login:

• Username: admin
• Password: antville

Congratulations! You have successfully installed and configured Antville on EndeavourOS Latest.