Installing Answer Q&A Community Software on Ubuntu 22.04

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In this week’s feature highlight, we look at How To Install Answer Q&A Community Software on Ubuntu 22.04

Answer is a open-source knowledge based community software. You can use it to quickly build your Q&A community for product technical support, customer support, user communication, and more.

Prerequisites:

• Root access to your Ubuntu 22.04 server.
• Docker installed and running. Learn how to setup Docker.

Install Docker Compose

To install Docker Compose, run the command,

apt install docker-compose

Running Answer with Docker

To install Answer via docker, run the command,

mkdir answer && cd answer
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/answerdev/answer/main/docker-compose.yaml
docker-compose up

Reboot the docker by running the following command,

systemctl restart docker

You can now navigate to your browser to the URL http://yourserver-ip-address:9080 and you will see the Answer Q&A Community Software installation screen.

Replace “yourserver-ip-address” with the actual IP Address of your server

Choose the language

Config database

Note – Answer supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite as the database backend.

If you are testing Answers for the first time, you can go ahead with sqlite it does not require any additional configuration.

Enter the basic information

Complete

Running Answer in the background with Docker

To start Answers in the background (detached mode), you can use the following command.

docker-compose up --detach

Outout:

root@vps:~/answer# docker-compose up --detach
Starting answer_db_1 ... done
Starting answer_answer_1 ... done

This concludes the Installation and Answer Q&A Community Software on Ubuntu 22.04.