Backdrop CMS is a powerful and flexible Content Management System that allows you to easily create and manage websites. In this tutorial, we'll show you how to install Backdrop CMS on OpenBSD.
Before we start, here are some prerequisites for installing Backdrop CMS:
To install Backdrop CMS on OpenBSD, you'll need to first install some prerequisites. OpenBSD comes with PHP installed by default, but you'll need to install Apache web server and MySQL/MariaDB database server.
You can install both of them in a single command using the following command:
# pkg_add apache mysql-server
Next, let's download and extract the Backdrop CMS files. You can download the latest release of Backdrop CMS from their official website. Once you've downloaded the file, extract it to the DocumentRoot of your Apache web server.
# tar -xzvf backdrop-version-number.tar.gz -C /var/www/htdocs/
You'll need to create a database for Backdrop CMS to store its data. To create a database, log in to MySQL/MariaDB using the following command:
# mysql -u root -p
Enter your MySQL/MariaDB root user password when prompted. Then, create a new database using the following command:
mysql> CREATE DATABASE backdropdb;
Create a new user for the Backdrop CMS to access the database:
mysql> CREATE USER 'backdropuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON backdropdb.* TO 'backdropuser'@'localhost';
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
mysql> EXIT;
Now that you've created a database for Backdrop CMS, it's time to configure Apache web server. Create a new virtual host configuration file for Backdrop CMS:
# vi /etc/httpd/conf/extra/httpd-backdrop.conf
Add the following configuration to it:
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "/var/www/htdocs/backdrop-1.19.0"
ServerName backdrop.example.com
<Directory "/var/www/htdocs/backdrop-1.19.0">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
ErrorLog "/var/log/httpd/backdrop-error.log"
CustomLog "/var/log/httpd/backdrop-access.log" common
</VirtualHost>
Make sure you replace the DocumentRoot and ServerName values with the directory where you've extracted the Backdrop CMS files and your server's domain name, respectively.
Finally, let's finish installing Backdrop CMS. Open a web browser and go to http://your-domain.com/install.php. Follow the instructions to complete the installation process.
Once the installation is complete, you can log in to the Backdrop CMS admin interface by visiting the URL http://your-domain.com/user.
Congratulations! You've successfully installed Backdrop CMS on OpenBSD.
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