How to Install Mibew on Fedora CoreOS Latest

Mibew is an open-source chat solution for websites that provides real-time communication with customers or clients. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install Mibew on Fedora CoreOS latest version.

Prerequisites

  • A fresh installation of Fedora CoreOS
  • The latest version of Docker installed

Step 1: Install Docker

To install Docker on Fedora CoreOS, follow these steps:

  1. Open a terminal window and type the following command to update the system:

    sudo dnf update -y

  2. Install the necessary packages to install Docker:

    sudo dnf install -y dnf-plugins-core container-selinux

  3. Add the Docker repository to dnf:

    sudo dnf config-manager \
   --add-repo \
   https://download.docker.com/linux/fedora/docker-ce.repo

  4. Install Docker:

    sudo dnf install -y docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io

  5. Start and enable Docker:

    sudo systemctl start docker.service
sudo systemctl enable docker.service

Step 2: Download Mibew

  1. Create a new directory to store Mibew files:

    sudo mkdir /opt/mibew
sudo chown $USER:$USER /opt/mibew

  2. Download the latest version of Mibew from the official website:

    wget https://mibew.org/downloads/mibew/mibew-3.1.0.tar.gz

  3. Extract the downloaded archive to the /opt/mibew directory:

    tar -xzf mibew-3.1.0.tar.gz -C /opt/mibew

Step 3: Configure Mibew

  1. Create a new configuration file for Mibew:

    cd /opt/mibew
cp config/default_config.yml config/config.yml

  2. Open the config/config.yml file and configure it according to your needs. You can change the name of the chat, the administrator's username and password, email settings, and other options.

Step 4: Run Mibew

  1. Start a Docker container with Mibew:

    sudo docker run -p 80:80 -v /opt/mibew:/mibew -d mibew/mibew

    This command starts a container with Mibew running on port 80, with the /opt/mibew directory mounted as /mibew inside the container.

  2. Access Mibew in your web browser by navigating to http://localhost.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we have learned how to install Mibew on Fedora CoreOS using Docker. You can now start using Mibew to provide real-time communication with your website visitors or customers.