How to install Cactus Comments on Fedora Server Latest?

Cactus Comments is a real-time commenting platform that can be integrated with any website. It supports a variety of platforms, including WordPress, Wix, Blogger, Shopify, and many more. In this tutorial, we will see how to install Cactus Comments on Fedora Server Latest.

Prerequisites

Before we begin with the installation process, we need to ensure that the following prerequisites are met:

• A Fedora Server Latest instance with root access.
• Apache web server installed.
• PHP version 7 or later installed.

Step 1: Download Cactus Comments

First, we need to download the Cactus Comments package from the official website. We can do this by running the following command in the terminal:

wget https://cdn.cactus.chat/cactus-latest.zip

This will download the latest version of Cactus Comments into the current working directory.

Step 2: Install Unzip

In Fedora Server Latest, the unzip package may not be installed by default. Therefore, we need to install it by running the following command in the terminal:

yum install unzip

Step 3: Unzip Cactus Comments

To unzip the downloaded package, we need to run the following command in the terminal:

unzip cactus-latest.zip

This will extract the contents of the archive to a folder named cactus.

Step 4: Move Cactus Comments to Apache web server document root

We need to move the contents of the cactus folder to the document root of the Apache web server. In Fedora Server Latest, the document root is located at /var/www/html/. We can do this by running the following command in the terminal:

mv cactus/* /var/www/html/

Step 5: Configure Cactus Comments

To configure Cactus Comments, we need to edit the config.php file located in the cactus folder. We can use any text editor to do this. In this tutorial, we will use the nano editor. To open the file using nano, run the following command in the terminal:

nano /var/www/html/cactus/config.php

In this file, we need to set the variables cactus_secret_key, cactus_app_id, and cactus_app_key according to the values provided in the Cactus Comments dashboard. Once done, save and exit the file.

Step 6: Set Permissions

We need to set the appropriate permissions on the Cactus Comments files and folders. To do this, we need to run the following commands in the terminal:

chown apache:apache /var/www/html/cactus
chmod -R 775 /var/www/html/cactus

Step 7: Restart Apache web server

To ensure that the changes take effect, we need to restart the Apache web server. We can do this by running the following command in the terminal:

systemctl restart httpd

Conclusion

That's it! We have successfully installed Cactus Comments on Fedora Server Latest. We can now integrate it with our website using the provided script.