Pico is a lightweight, flat-file content management system that makes it easy to create and manage websites. In this tutorial, we will guide you on how to install Pico on FreeBSD Latest.
First, we need to make sure that our packages are updated by running the following command in the terminal:
sudo pkg update && sudo pkg upgrade
After updating the packages, we need to install the required packages for Pico to function properly. We will install PHP and its modules using the following command:
sudo pkg install php74 php74-ctype php74-json php74-mbstring php74-session php74-tokenizer php74-xml php74-zip
We can download Pico from their official website using the following command:
wget https://github.com/picocms/Pico/releases/download/v2.1.4/pico-release-v2.1.4.zip
Alternatively, we can use the following command to clone the latest development version of Pico from its official Git repository:
git clone https://github.com/picocms/Pico.git
After downloading Pico, we need to extract the files using the following command:
unzip pico-release-v2.1.4.zip
Alternatively, we can navigate to the cloned Pico directory and check out the latest development version:
cd Pico
git checkout development
We need to configure Pico to match our preferences. Open the config/config.yml file in your preferred text editor, and change the following settings:
sitename: My Site # Change "My Site" to your desired site name.
timezone: Europe/London # Change "Europe/London" to the timezone of your location.
After making the changes, save the file and close the text editor.
To run Pico, we need to start the PHP built-in web server using the following command:
php -S localhost:8080
Open your web browser and navigate to http://localhost:8080 to view your website.
In this tutorial, you learned how to install Pico on FreeBSD Latest. You also learned how to configure Pico and start the built-in web server to test your website. With Pico, you can easily create and manage a lightweight website without the need for a database or complex setup.
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