Installation Instructions

Run the following command to install the packages

yum install tar make automake gcc gcc-c++ git net-tools cmake libcurl-devel libxml2-devel libffi-devel libxslt-devel wget redis ImageMagick nodejs libpq-devel

Run the following commands to setup user for Diaspora

adduser diaspora chmod 755 /home/diaspora su - diaspora cd ~

After that, create a user with the privilege to create databases.

CREATE USER diaspora WITH CREATEDB PASSWORD '<password>';

Once all the pre-requisites are installed, run the following command to clone the source code.

cd ~
git clone -b master https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora.git
cd diaspora

Copy the configuration files

cp config/database.yml.example config/database.yml
cp config/diaspora.toml.example config/diaspora.toml

username: Make sure to use the right username you created for diaspora. password: Make sure to use the right password for the user your created for diaspora.

You can visit this page for further configurations.

Then, run the following commands to install the Ruby libraries required.

gem install bundler
script/configure_bundler
bin/bundle install --full-index
RAILS_ENV=production bin/rake assets:precompile

Finally, start the server by running the following command

./script/server