www.victorwesterlund.com

The source code for victorwesterlund.com

How to install

This guide is for Unix-based systems with NGINX, PHP 8.0 and MariaDB installed and configured.

1. Clone this repo.
   

   git clone https://github.com/VictorWesterlund/victorwesterlund.com /var/www

2. Expose the directory /public to the web.
   This can be done in multiple ways, but an NGINX location block or symlink should do the trick.
3. Rewrite api.php to api/*.
   All requests to example.com/api/* should be routed to the PHP file at /public/api.php.
   Just like the previous step, this can be done in multiple ways. Here is one way with an NGINX location block:
   

   location ~ /api/* {
        try_files /public/api.php =503;
        include snippets/fastcgi-php.local.conf;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php8.0-fpm.sock;
   }

4. Add support for the .mjs extension.
   NGINX doesn't have an entry for the ECMAScript module (.mjs) file extension in its default /etc/nginx/mime.types file. We need to add this manually:
   

   types {
        ...
        application/javascript                js mjs;
        ...
   }
   

   PS: If you want to make your Content-Type WG compliant, replace application/javascript with text/javascript
5. Import the standard structure to a MariaDB database.
   A MySQL-compatible .sql can be downloaded here and imported into a database with this command:
   

   mysql -u username -p database_name < db_structure.sql

   You will have to create an empty database if you don't have one already.
6. Add your MariaDB connection details to /src/database/config.json.
   You can add as many fallback servers as you want

   {
     "servers": [
         {
            "host": "db.example.com",
            "user": "mysql_user",
            "pass": "mysql_pass",
            "db": "mysql_db"
         },
         {
            "host": "fallback.db.example.com",
            "user": "mysql_user",
            "pass": "mysql_pass",
            "db": "mysql_db"
         }
     ]
   }
   

That was a lot, but now we're done! Navigate to the location you exposed in step 2 and cross your fingers 🤞