How to Install Web-Portal on NetBSD

In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing Web-Portal on NetBSD. Web-Portal is an open-source web dashboard builder that can be used to create and manage various dashboards for different purposes.

Before we begin, please make sure you have the following prerequisites:

• NetBSD installed on your machine
• Access to the terminal on your machine
• A stable internet connection to download the required packages and dependencies

Step 1: Installing Node.js

The first step is to install Node.js because Web-Portal runs on Node.js. You can install it by running the following command in the terminal:

pkgin install nodejs

This command will download and install the latest version of Node.js available in the NetBSD package repository.

Step 2: Installing Git

Next, we need to install Git to download the source code of Web-Portal from the GitHub repository. Run the following command in the terminal:

pkgin install git

This will download and install Git on your system.

Step 3: Cloning Web-Portal repository

Next, we need to clone the Web-Portal repository from GitHub using Git. Run the following command in the terminal:

git clone https://github.com/enchant97/web-portal.git

This will download the latest version of the Web-Portal source code from the GitHub repository.

Step 4: Installing Required Dependencies

Now, we need to install the required dependencies for Web-Portal to run. Go to the Web-Portal directory in your terminal and run the following command:

npm install

This will install all the required dependencies for Web-Portal.

Step 5: Configuration

Web-Portal comes with a configuration file that needs to be modified. Copy the config.example.json file to config.json by running the following command:

cp config.example.json config.json

Now, open the config.json file using your favorite text editor, and modify the following parameters:

• server.proxyUrl - Set this to your server's IP address or hostname.
• server.port - Set this to the port on which you want to run Web-Portal.
• auth.secret - Set this to a random and secure value. This is used to encrypt user passwords, so make sure it's strong.

Step 6: Running Web-Portal

Finally, we can now start running Web-Portal. To do this, run the following command in the terminal:

npm start

This will start the Web-Portal server on the port you specified in the configuration file.

Conclusion

You have successfully installed Web-Portal on NetBSD. You can now open your web browser and navigate to http://<server-ip>:<port> (replace <server-ip> and <port> with the values you set in the configuration file) to access the Web-Portal interface. From here, you can create and manage different dashboards for various purposes.

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