Installing Glosa on NixOS

Overview

In this tutorial, we will go through the step-by-step instructions to install Glosa on NixOS. Glosa is an open-source messaging platform that allows users to send messages securely and privately.

Prerequisites

• NixOS latest version installed
• Access to a terminal

Step 1: Install git

In order to download the Glosa source code from Github, you need to have git installed on your system.

sudo nix-env -i git

Step 2: Clone the Glosa repository

Next, we need to clone the Glosa repository from Github.

git clone https://github.com/glosa/glosa-server.git

Step 3: Install Redis

Glosa utilizes Redis for persistent data storage. We can install it by running the following command:

sudo nix-env -i redis

Step 4: Install Node.js

The Glosa server is built on top of Node.js, so we need to install it.

sudo nix-env -i nodejs

Step 5: Install dependencies

Navigate to the Glosa directory which has been cloned in Step 2 and install dependencies with the following command:

cd glosa-server
npm install

Step 6: Configure Glosa

Copy the config.js.example file into config.js and edit as required.

cp config.js.example config.js
nano config.js

Step 7: Start Glosa

Start the Glosa server with the following command:

npm start

You’ve now installed Glosa on NixOS. You can access the Glosa web interface by pointing your web browser to http://localhost:3010. You may also install and use a Glosa-compatible client application to send and receive messages.