Conference Organizing Distribution (COD) is a Drupal-based distribution that provides a platform for managing conferences and events. In this tutorial, we will guide you on how to install COD on NetBSD.
Before we proceed with the installation, make sure that you have the following requirements:
First, we need to download the COD distribution from its official website. You can use the following command to download the latest version of COD:
wget http://usecod.com/sites/default/files/cod-8.x-1.14-core.tar.gz
Next, extract the downloaded file to your /var/www directory:
tar xzf cod-8.x-1.14-core.tar.gz -C /var/www
The above command will create a cod directory in your /var/www directory.
COD requires a MySQL or MariaDB database to store its data. If you haven't already set up a database, you can use the following commands to install and configure MariaDB:
pkgin update
pkgin install mariadb-server
/usr/pkg/mysql/scripts/mysql_install_db --user=mysql
/usr/pkg/etc/rc.d/mysqld start
mysql_secure_installation
Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation and secure your database.
Next, create a new database for COD using the following commands:
mysql -u root -p
CREATE DATABASE cod;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON cod.* TO 'coduser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'codpassword';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
exit;
Change the coduser and codpassword to your preferred values.
COD is built on top of Drupal, so we need to install Drupal first. To do this, navigate to your COD directory and run the following commands:
cd /var/www/cod
mv example.settings.local.php settings.local.php
chmod 777 ./sites/default
vendor/bin/drush site-install cod \
--account-name=admin \
--account-pass=admin \
--db-url=mysql://coduser:codpassword@localhost/cod
The above command will install Drupal and configure it with the necessary settings.
Now that Drupal is installed, we can start configuring COD. To do this, navigate to your COD directory and run the following command:
vendor/bin/drush cset system.site uuid $(uuidgen)
This command will generate a new UUID for your site.
Next, enable the COD modules using the following commands:
vendor/bin/drush en cod_session -y
vendor/bin/drush en cod_core -y
vendor/bin/drush en cod_spam -y
vendor/bin/drush en cod_event -y
vendor/bin/drush en cod_template -y
Finally, run the following command to rebuild your site's cache:
vendor/bin/drush cr
Now that COD is installed and configured, you can access it by navigating to http://localhost/cod in your web browser. Use the username admin and password admin to log in to the site.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Conference Organizing Distribution (COD) on NetBSD. You can now start using it to manage your conferences and events.
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