Sailor is compatible with a variety of operating systems and webservers. On this example, we will use Arch Linux and Apache 2.4.12.
If you don't have it already, install Lua. Sailor is compatible with both 5.1 and 5.2.
sudo pacman -Sy
sudo pacman -S lua-{sec,socket}
Use the following command to install Apache 2.4.x:
sudo pacman -S apache
Enable mod_lua:
Edit httpd.conf and enable the mod_lua.so module:
sudo yourtexteditor /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
The following line must be uncommented:
LoadModule lua_module modules/mod_lua.so
Change the DirectoryIndex directive to:
DirectoryIndex index.lua index.html
Add the SetHandler directive:
<FilesMatch "\.lua$">
SetHandler lua-script
</FilesMatch>
Enable Apache:
systemctl enable httpd.service
If it is already enabled, restart it:
systemctl restart httpd.service
You can either clone it directly from the repository, download the zip containing the master branch or download and install it through LuaRocks. We will go through LuaRocks since it will also download and install almost all the required dependencies except for luasql-mysql if you want to persist your models.
sudo pacman -S luarocks
sudo luarocks install sailor
We are almost done! You can now use sailor to create your web applications. In this example, we will create an app called "Hey Arnold" on the directory Apache is reading from (usually /var/www). After you're done, you can open your browser and access it on http://localhost/hey_arnold.
sailor create 'Hey Arnold' /srv/http
Alternatively, you can manually copy the files in the /src/sailor/blank-app directory of this repository to /srv/http/hey_arnold and access it at http://localhost/hey_arnold and if you didn't install sailor through LuaRocks, you must open .htaccess and replace {{path}} with the full path on your system to Sailor's src directory.
If you want to persist your models you need luasql. Sailor could work with other drivers but so far we've only tested with mysql and don't offer support for others.
sudo luarocks install luasql-mysql
If you installed Sailor through LuaRocks, there is no need to worry, all next dependencies will be installed with it and you can ignore the rest of this section. If you just cloned the repository or downloaded the zip, you should install these dependencies:
Lua File System and valua are required.
sudo luarocks install luafilesystem
sudo luarocks install valua
If you want to save your models in a database, you will need LuaSQL. I believe it should work with every database LuaSQL supports, but so far I have only tested with MySQL. LuaSQL-MySQL requires you to have mysql installed.
sudo luarocks install LuaSQL-MySQL
If you want to use our mailer module, get these rocks so we are able to send stuff via SMTP.
sudo luarocks install LuaSocket
sudo luarocks install LuaSec
LuaSec requires OpenSSL as a dependency, if you don't have it already please install it and try getting LuaSec again. Remember to install "devel" packages, if your distro has them, to get the header files! If LuaSec can't find your OpenSSL dir, try using these flags, depending on your system's architecture (the examples below work on some Linux distros).
sudo luarocks install LuaSec OPENSSL_LIBDIR=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
or
sudo luarocks install LuaSec OPENSSL_LIBDIR=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu