EyeOS

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What is eyeOS?

eyeOS is an open source web desktop following the cloud computing concept that leverages collaboration and communication among users. It is mainly written in PHP, XML, and JavaScript. It acts as a platform for web applications written using the eyeOS Toolkit. It includes a Desktop environment with 67 applications and system utilities

Set up eyeOS on Alpine Linux

This document will be a quick c/p guide to setup MediaWiki on Alpine linux. What we will setup is the following:

  • Lighttpd with PHP
  • eyeOS

Install lighttpd, and PHP

apk add lighttpd php php-sqlite php-imap

Configuring Lighttpd

Edit lighttpd.conf

nano +46 /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

Uncomment lines:

uncoment    include "mod_fastcgi.conf", save and exit

Installing and configuring eyeOS

Install eyeOS

Download

 cd /tmp
 wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/eyeos/files/eyeos/1.9.0.1/eyeOS_1.9.0.1.zip/download

Unpack

 unzip download

Change Folder Name

 mv eyeOS/ /etc/

Change Folder Persmissions

 chmod -R 777 /etc/eyeOS/

Unpack main package

 cd /etc/eyeOS/
 mv /etc/eyeOS/package.eyepackage /etc/eyeOS/package.tar.gz
 tar zxvf  /etc/eyeOS/package.tar.gz

Make Symlink to the eyeOS folder

 ln -s /etc/eyeOS/ /var/www/localhost/htdocs/eyeos

Starting

Starting http service and adding to boot

 /etc/init.d/lighttpd start && rc-update add lighttpd default

Config your eyeos

Browse to: http://WEBSERVER_IP_ADDRESS/eyeos

 Please fill out the following form to install eyeOS:
 Root Password
 Retype Password
 System Name
 Allow users to create accounts

When you finish, press "Install eyeOS!" button, and thats all. :) You have eyeOS cloud computing system working, to access go to http://WEBSERVER_IP_ADDRESS/eyeOS and enjoy!