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Then rebuild your system and you can continue along with the article.
<xeblog-conv name="Mara" mood="hacker">EDIT: You can use WSL for this. See
[here](/blog/nix-flakes-4-wsl-2022-05-01) for more information.</xeblog-conv>
If you are not on NixOS, you will need to either edit `~/.config/nix/nix.conf`
or `/etc/nix/nix.conf` and add the following line to it:

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<xeblog-conv name="Mara" mood="hacker">This will give you an environment to run
Nix and Nix Flakes commands with. You can use this to follow along with this
series without having to install NixOS on a VM or cloud server.
series without having to install NixOS on a VM or cloud server. This is going to
retread a bunch of ground from the first article. If you have been following
along through this entire series, once you get to the point where you convert
the install to flakes there isn't much more new material here.
</xeblog-conv>
## Installation
@ -182,6 +185,12 @@ And paste in this HTML:
It's so cool *twerks*
```
<xeblog-conv name="Mara" mood="hacker">This doesn't have to just be artisanal
handcrafted HTML in bespoke folders either. You can set the <code>root</code> of
a nginx virtual host to point to a Nix package as well. This will allow you to
automatically generate your website somehow and deploy it with the rest of the
system. Including being able to roll back changes.</xeblog-conv>
And then you can see it show up with `curl`:
```console
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sudo nixos-rebuild switch
```
<xeblog-conv name="Mara" mood="hmm">Why don't you have the <code>--flake</code>
flag here? Based on what I read in the documentation, I thought you had to have
it there.</xeblog-conv>
<xeblog-conv name="Cadey" mood="enby"><code>nixos-rebuild</code> will
auomatically detect flakes in <code>/etc/nixos</code>. The only major thing it
cares about is the hostname matching. If you want to customize the hostname of
the WSL VM, change the <code>nixos</code> in
<code>nixosConfigurations.nixos</code> above and set
<code>networking.hostName</code> to the value you want to use. To use flakes
explicitly, pass <code>--flake /etc/nixos#hostname</code> to your
<code>nixos-rebuild</code> call.
</xeblog-conv>
After it thinks for a bit, you should notice that nothing happened. This is
good, we have just converted the system over to using Nix flakes instead of the
classic `nix-channel` rebuild method.