Cherokee Web Server Install - Part three

This time around we will be focusing on three great apps you can run on your Cherokee webserver! The first one is the famous KPlaylist which magically transform your slug into a live disco fever media browser! How awesome is that?

Next we will be managing your openoffice torrent download with Torrential, a web gui interface to the enhanced-ctorrent client.

Finally we have Joomla! one of the greatest Content management systems imo! I've made a webpage called www.vestskovenbk.com based on it. (Beware, its danish thou' - and it runs on a webhotel, prolly not cherokee, those bast**ds ;p )

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Kplaylist
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Screenshots:

Kplaylist is really easy to setup:
#1 you simply download it from the website.
#2 unzip it to /opt/share/www/cherokee/kplaylist/
#3 configure the index.php file to match your mysql settings etc.
#4 go to http://slugip:8008/kplaylist
#5 and there you go!
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Torrential
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Torrential comes with a simply webgui that makes it easy for you to download torrents from the world wide web. Pretty handy indeed!

#1 Download the original package here
#2 Unzip and upload it to /opt/share/www/cherokee/torrent/
#3 Go to your terminal and type: ipkg install enhanced-ctorrent
#4 Go to your terminal and type: ipkg install joe
#5 Go create a torrent folder. eg. mkdir /torrents/
#6 Be sure its writable: chmod 777 /torrents/
#7 edit user & pass in the inc_config.php file:
joe /opt/share/www/cherokee/torrent/inc_config.php

And you are done! Almost, there is a patch which fixes som stat bugs, be sure to update! Read more about it here.

Btw, be careful, you might overload the slug if you download more than one torrent at a time though.

If you want more options in your torrentclient there is an alternative: T o r r e n t f lu x ! I have not been able to download a torrent file through torrentflux on the nlsu2 yet though.. it works great on my main server (runs linux).. but with the slug something goes wrong.. Please don't hesitate to write if you got it working.

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Joomla
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Joomla is an pretty advance piece of software! no doubt in that. The NSLU2 box can handle it but Joomla with its components and modules tend to be pretty heavy! So be gently !

There are some really good tutorials out there how to install Joomla though!

I can recommend the shop extension, virtuemart, which turns your slug into a money machine if you have something for sale ;)

You can download the latest Joomla version right here.

Thats it for now folks.. have fun with your new apps and be sure to post your success stories :)