Running Homepage Application Dashboard on Windows

#Homepage #Dashboard #Windows

Full steps can be found at https://i12bretro.github.io/tutorials/0882.html

What is Homepage?

[Homepage is] a modern, fully static, fast, secure fully proxied, highly customizable application dashboard with integrations for over 100 services and translations into multiple languages. Easily configured via YAML files or through docker label discovery. - https://github.com/benphelps/homepage

Installing Homepage

   01. Log into the Windows device    02. Download the latest Homepage release  https://github.com/benphelps/homepage/releases/latest    03. Download NodeJS  https://nodejs.org/en/download/current/    04. Install NodeJS ≫ During the install, make sure to check the Tools for Native Modules option    05. At the Native Modules prompt, press any key to begin the installation process NOTE: This process takes quite a while to install, be patient. Proceed once the PowerShell window closes    06. Extract the downloaded Homepage files    07. Rename the extracted folder homepage    08. Cut the homepage folder to a location it can safely run from, C:\Program Files\homepage in this example    09. Hold the SHIFT key and right click in the white space ≫ Open PowerShell window here...    10. Run the following commands in the PowerShell window          # install dependencies          npm install          # create .env file from example          Copy-Item ".\src\skeleton" -Destination ".\config" -Recurse          # build homepage          npm run build          # run homepage          npm start    11. Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP:3000    12. Welcome to Homepage

Run Homepage on System Startup (Optional, but recommended)

   01. Press CTRL + C to kill the running Homepage process    02. Open a text editor and paste the following          :: Start homepage server          cd /D "%~dp0"          start "homepage" /b npm start    03. Save the file as homepage.bat in the homepage directory, C:\Program Files\homepage in this example    04. Click on the Start Button ≫ Type task ≫ Launch Task Scheduler    05. Right click the Task Scheduler Library folder in the left pane ≫ Create Basic Task...    06. Set the name to Homepage and optionally set a Description ≫ Click Next    07. For the Trigger, select When the computer starts ≫ Click Next    08. For the Action, select Start a program ≫ Click Next    09. Complete the form fields as follows:          Program/script: "%ProgramFiles%\homepage\homepage.bat"          Add arguments:          Start in:    10. Click Next    11. Check the Open the Properties dialog checkbox ≫ Click Finish    12. In the Properties dialog, click the Change User or Group... button    13. Type System in the Object name field ≫ Click OK    14. Check the Run with highest privileges box    15. Click OK to create the scheduled task    16. Right click the Homepage task ≫ Run    17. Refresh the open web browser to verify Homepage is now running from the scheduled task   Source:  https://github.com/gethomepage/homepage?tab=readme-ov-file#with-node  

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