OpenWISP is a free and open-source network management system that helps network administrators to manage their networks. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install OpenWISP on FreeBSD.
OpenWISP needs some dependencies to be installed on FreeBSD. Let's install them first.
sudo pkg update && sudo pkg upgrade
sudo pkg install python39 py39-pip python_pkgs gettext-runtime postgresql13-client postgresql13-server py39-psycopg2 py39-django
Now, we are ready to install OpenWISP. Follow the below commands to install OpenWISP.
sudo pip install --upgrade pip
sudo pip install openwisp-controller
After installing OpenWISP, we need to create a PostgreSQL database for OpenWISP. Follow the below commands to create a PostgreSQL database.
sudo su - postgres
psql
CREATE DATABASE openwispdb;
CREATE USER openwispuser WITH PASSWORD 'password';
ALTER USER openwispuser CREATEDB;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE openwispdb TO openwispuser;
Now, we need to configure OpenWISP before we start the server. Create a file named openwisp.conf in /etc directory and add the following configuration to it.
SECRET_KEY = '<secret-key>'
DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'openwispdb',
'USER': 'openwispuser',
'PASSWORD': 'password',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
Replace <secret-key> with your own secret key.
After configuring OpenWISP, we are ready to start the server. Follow the below command to start the server.
sudo openwisp-controller setup
sudo openwisp-controller migrate
sudo openwisp-controller createsuperuser
sudo openwisp-controller runserver 0.0.0.0:8000
In this tutorial, we have learned how to install OpenWISP on FreeBSD. You can now manage your networks with OpenWISP on FreeBSD.
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