How to install Castopod on OpenBSD

Castopod is a self-hosted podcast platform. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the steps required to install Castopod on OpenBSD.

Prerequisites

1. OpenBSD installed on your computer
2. Access to the terminal
3. Basic knowledge of OpenBSD

Install Required Dependencies

First, we need to install the dependencies required for Castopod to run. To do this, open your terminal and run:

$ doas pkg_add postgresql nginx ruby node

This command will install PostgreSQL (a relational database management system), NGINX (a web server), Ruby (a programming language), and Node (a JavaScript runtime).

Setting up PostgreSQL

Next, we need to configure PostgreSQL. To do this, run:

$ doas rcctl enable postgresql
$ doas rcctl start postgresql

These commands will enable PostgreSQL to start on boot and start PostgreSQL immediately.

Next, we need to create a new user in PostgreSQL:

$ doas su - postgres
$ createuser castopod

After creating the user, we need to create a new database with the same name:

$ createdb -O castopod castopod_production

Install Castopod

Now we're ready to install Castopod. To install Castopod, run:

$ doas pkg_add castopod

This command will download and install the latest version of Castopod.

Configuration

After the installation process has been completed, we need to configure Castopod.

Configure the Database

Castopod stores data in a PostgreSQL database. To connect Castopod to the database we created earlier, we need to update the configuration file.

$ cd /etc/castopod/
$ doas cp config.example.yml config.yml

Now we need to edit the configuration file with our PostgreSQL settings. Open /etc/castopod/config.yml with your favorite text editor and update the following lines:

production:
  url: postgresql://castopod@localhost/castopod_production

NGINX

Now we need to configure NGINX to serve Castopod. We will create a new server block in the NGINX configuration file:

$ doas vi /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

Put the following lines in the http block:

upstream castopod {
  server unix:/run/castopod/castopod.sock;
}

server {
  listen 80;
  server_name example.com;

  location / {
    proxy_pass http://castopod;
    proxy_set_header Host $host;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
  }
}

Replace example.com with your domain name.

Running Castopod

Finally, we can start Castopod by running:

$ doas rcctl enable castopod
$ doas rcctl start castopod

This command will enable Castopod to start on boot and start Castopod immediately.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed and configured Castopod. You can now access your Castopod instance by visiting http://example.com in your web browser.

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