How to Install HyperKitty on Fedora CoreOS Latest
HyperKitty is a web interface for mailing list archives, which is provided by GNU Mailman 3. If you want to install HyperKitty on Fedora CoreOS Latest, please follow the below tutorial.
Prerequisites
- A running instance of Fedora CoreOS Latest
- SSH access to your instance
- An administrator account with sudo privileges
Step 1 - Install Mailman 3
The first step is to install Mailman 3 since HyperKitty is a web interface for mailing list archives provided by Mailman 3. Here is how you can install Mailman 3:
sudo dnf install mailman3-core mailman3-full -y
This command will install Mailman 3 core and the full set of available features.
Step 2 - Install HyperKitty
The next step is to install HyperKitty. The simplest and easiest way to install HyperKitty is by using pip. Here’s how to do it:
sudo dnf install python3-pip git-core -y
sudo pip3 install virtualenv
sudo mkdir /opt/hyperkitty
sudo chown -R $USER /opt/hyperkitty
cd /opt/hyperkitty
virtualenv hyperkitty-env
source hyperkitty-env/bin/activate
pip install hyperkitty
Step 3 - Configure HyperKitty
After installing HyperKitty, configure it by running this command:
hk-config.py init
It will create configuration files for HyperKitty. Answer all the questions that you will be asked during the configuration.
Step 4 - Configure Mailman for HyperKitty
In this step, you will configure Mailman to use HyperKitty as its archiving interface.
Create the following file:
sudo vi /etc/mailman3/mailman-hyperkitty.cfg
Add the following lines to it:
[general]
base_url = http://<your-server-name>/hk
rest_api_url = https://127.0.0.1:8001/
enable_list_posting = yes
enable_user_posting = yes
dynamic_profile_listname = yes
urlpattern_list = ^(?!admin|accounts|socialaccount|api|auth|static|register|login|password)(?P<list_name>[^/]+)/?$
Step 5 - Start HyperKitty
Start HyperKitty by running the following command:
hyperkitty-server -b 127.0.0.1 -p 8001 --settings=mailman_hyperkitty.settings
Conclusion
Congratulations! You have successfully installed and configured HyperKitty on Fedora CoreOS Latest. You can now access the HyperKitty web interface by navigating to http://<your-server-name>/hk.