In this tutorial, we will go over the steps of installing Appsmith on your OpenBSD machine. Appsmith is an open-source platform for building and deploying applications. It allows you to easily create applications without having to write code.
To follow this tutorial, you will need:
Appsmith requires Java to run. To install Java on your OpenBSD machine, run the following command:
sudo pkg_add -v openjdk-11.0.11p9
This will install the OpenJDK version 11 on your machine.
You can download Appsmith from the official website at https://www.appsmith.com/download. As of the time of writing this tutorial, the latest version is 1.5.1.
To download and save the zip file in the current directory, run the following command:
wget https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith/releases/download/v1.5.1/appsmith-server-1.5.1.zip
Extract the downloaded zip file using the following command:
unzip appsmith-server-1.5.1.zip
This will create a new directory called appsmith-server.
Navigate to the appsmith-server directory and open the application.properties file in a text editor:
cd appsmith-server
sudo nano application.properties
Find the line that starts with SERVER_PORT= and change the port number to 8080 (or any other port number of your choice).
Save and close the file.
To run Appsmith, execute the following command in the appsmith-server directory:
sudo ./start.sh
This will start the Appsmith server on the port you specified in the application.properties file.
Open a web browser and navigate to the following URL:
http://localhost:8080/
If everything worked as expected, you should see the Appsmith login page. From here, you can create a new account and start using the platform.
In this tutorial, we covered the steps required to install Appsmith on OpenBSD. If you followed the steps correctly, you should now have a working installation of Appsmith on your machine. You can use this platform to easily create and deploy applications without having to write code.
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