Hi, sorry if that title isn't very clear. I just started learning about nix a couple days ago; I'll explain what I mean.
I'm trying to set up a web application that I'm currently hosting with Docker containers, but do it with nix instead, like what's shown in this blog post: https://carjorvaz.com/posts/the-holy-grail-nextcloud-setup-made-easy-by-nixos/
However, I don't have NixOS on my server. I'm using Debian, with the nix package manager installed.
Is it possible to use a nix config file, like the one below, when only using the nix package manager? Currently it errors when I try to call nix-build with it, giving an error about calling a lambda function that never called self. If I remove the self argument, it complains about config, and so on.
{ self, config, lib, pkgs, ... }:
{
services = {
nextcloud = {
enable = true;
hostName = "cloud.example.com";
package = pkgs.nextcloud27;
# Let NixOS install and configure the database automatically.
database.createLocally = true;
# Let NixOS install and configure Redis caching automatically.
configureRedis = true;
< other settings here... >
};
};
}
From what I've read, the services part of that creates systemd services, which makes me think that it only works if you're on a full NixOS system and not only using the nix package manager. But it's been difficult to find a clear answer on that, probably because I'm still learning what terms to search for.
Oh nice, I hadn't heard of Tokodon before. I'll have to check it out.
That is so cool. I saw a former Cohost user mention that feature on Mastodon. A bunch of other ex-Cohost people agreed that it was one of their favorite features.