Maloja on NixOS - Shells KB

Installing Maloja on nixOS Latest

Maloja is a web-based self-hosted music streaming server written entirely in Rust. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing and configuring Maloja on NixOS Latest.

Prerequisites

Before we begin, you need to have NixOS Latest installed on your machine. If you haven't done so, you can download and install NixOS from their official website. Additionally, you need to have administrator privileges.

Install Maloja

To install Maloja on NixOS Latest, you need to follow these steps:

Open a terminal window and switch to the root user by typing the following command:
```
sudo su
```
This will prompt you to enter your user password, followed by a successful login as the root user.
Install Rust by running the following command:
```
nix-env -i rustup
```
Now that Rust is installed, you can download and compile Maloja on your system using git. Clone the code from Maloja's GitHub repository to your local machine by running the following command:
```
git clone https://github.com/krateng/maloja.git /opt/maloja
```
After cloning, navigate to the /opt/maloja directory and run the following command to compile and install Maloja:
```
cargo install --root /nix/store --path .
```
The installation process will take some time to complete, after which you need to create a user account for the Maloja service. You can do this by running the following command:
```
useradd -r -s /usr/sbin/nologin -m -d /var/lib/maloja maloja
```
Now that Maloja is installed, you need to create a configuration file in the /etc/maloja directory. Run the following command to create the directory:
```
mkdir /etc/maloja
```

Next, create a configuration file named config.toml in the /etc/maloja directory using your preferred text editor:

nano /etc/maloja/config.toml

Add the following content to the config.toml file:

[general]
bind_address = "0.0.0.0"
base_url = "/"
database_url="sqlite:///var/lib/maloja/maloja.sqlite"
password_salt="some-random-salt-for-generating-hashes"

[users.admin]
admin = true
password = "password"

Replace "password" with a strong password for the Maloja admin user.

Change the owner of the /var/lib/maloja directory to the Maloja user:
```
chown -R maloja:maloja /var/lib/maloja
```
Finally, start the Maloja service and enable it to start at boot time by running the following commands:
```
systemctl start maloja.service
systemctl enable maloja.service
```

Congratulations! You have now successfully installed Maloja on NixOS Latest. You can access the Maloja web interface by opening your web browser and navigating to:

http://<your-server-ip>:3030

Replace <your-server-ip> with the IP address of your NixOS machine. You can log in to the Maloja web interface using the admin username and password you provided in the config.toml file.