EyeOS
eyeOS is an open source web desktop following the cloud computing concept that leverages collaboration and communication among users. It is mainly written in PHP, XML, and JavaScript. It acts as a platform for web applications written using the eyeOS Toolkit. It includes a Desktop environment with 67 applications and system utilities
![]() To my knowledge, eyeOS after version 2.5 is now a proprietary product with no source available. The current URL of the project is: http://www.eyeos.com/en
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Set up eyeOS on Alpine Linux
This document will be a quick c/p guide to setup eyeOS on Alpine linux. What we will setup is the following:
- Lighttpd with PHP
- eyeOS
Install lighttpd, and PHP
For installing the additional packages first activate community packages:
vi /etc/apk/repositories
Uncomment the following:
http://pkg.example.com/alpine/v3.11/community
Update the packagelist:
apk update
Install the additional packages:
apk add lighttpd php7-common php7-session php7-iconv php7-json php7-gd php7-curl php7-xml php7-mysqli php7-imap php7-cgi fcgi php7-pdo php7-pdo_mysql php7-soap php7-xmlrpc php7-posix php7-mcrypt php7-gettext php7-ldap php7-ctype php7-dom php7-simplexml
Configure Lighttpd
Edit lighttpd.conf
vi /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
Uncomment line:
include "mod_fastcgi.conf"
Start lighttpd service and add to needed runlevel
rc-service lighttpd start && rc-update add lighttpd default
Installing and configuring eyeOS
Make webapps folder
mkdir /usr/share/webapps/ -p
Download previous version:
cd /usr/share/webapps/ wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/eyeos/files/eyeos/1.9.0.1/eyeOS_1.9.0.1.zip/download
Unpack and delete zip file
unzip download rm download
Also you can download latest version:
cd /usr/share/webapps/ wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/eyeos/files/eyeos2/eyeos-2.5.tar.gz/download
Unpack and delete tar.gz file
cd /usr/share/webapps/ tar -xvzf download
Project and source files https://sourceforge.net/projects/eyeos/ are dead and gone!
Change Folder Persmissions
chmod -R 777 /usr/share/webapps/eyeOS/
Make symlinks to eyeOS
ln -s /usr/share/webapps/eyeOS/ /var/www/localhost/htdocs/eyeos
Unpack main package
cd /usr/share/webapps/eyeOS/ mv /usr/share/webapps/eyeOS/package.eyepackage /usr/share/webapps/eyeOS/package.tar.gz tar zxvf /usr/share/webapps/eyeOS/package.tar.gz
Starting
Starting http service and adding to boot
/etc/init.d/lighttpd start && rc-update add lighttpd default
Config your eyeos
Browse to: http://WEBSERVER_IP_ADDRESS/eyeos
Please fill out the following form to install eyeOS:
Root Password Retype Password System Name Allow users to create accounts
When you finish, press "Install eyeOS!" button, and thats all. :) You have eyeOS cloud computing system working. To access it, go to http://WEBSERVER_IP_ADDRESS/eyeOS and enjoy!