Installing PDNS GUI on EndeavourOS

PDNS GUI is a graphical user interface for the PowerDNS server. It provides a web-based interface for managing the PowerDNS server. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install PDNS GUI on EndeavourOS.

Prerequisites

Before starting the installation process, make sure you have the following prerequisites:

• A running instance of EndeavourOS
• Superuser access

Installing Dependencies

First, we need to install some dependencies required by PDNS GUI:

sudo pacman -S git python python-pip python-virtualenv npm

Installing PDNS GUI

To install PDNS GUI, we need to clone the source code from GitHub and set up the virtual environment:

# Clone the PDNS GUI repository
git clone https://github.com/odoucet/pdns-gui.git

# Move into the cloned repository
cd pdns-gui

# Create a virtual environment for PDNS GUI
python -m venv venv

# Activate the virtual environment
source venv/bin/activate

# Upgrade pip
pip install --upgrade pip

# Install dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt

# Install JavaScript dependencies
npm install

Configuring PDNS GUI

To configure PDNS GUI, we need to create a configuration file:

# Create a configuration file
cp .env.example .env

Edit the .env file and set the PDNS_API_URL variable to the URL of the PowerDNS API:

PDNS_API_URL=http://localhost:8081/api/v1/

Running PDNS GUI

To run PDNS GUI, we need to activate the virtual environment, start the Flask server, and launch the web interface:

# Activate the virtual environment
source venv/bin/activate

# Start the Flask server
export FLASK_APP=pdnsgui
export FLASK_ENV=development
flask run

Open a web browser and navigate to http://localhost:5000 to access the PDNS GUI web interface.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install PDNS GUI on EndeavourOS. PDNS GUI provides an easy-to-use web interface for managing the PowerDNS server. Now that you have installed PDNS GUI, you can start using it to manage your PowerDNS server.