Chibisafe is a free and open-source file hosting and sharing platform. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Chibisafe on OpenBSD.
Before you start, make sure you have the following requirements:
Open the terminal and update the package list with the following command:
$ sudo pkg_add -u
Then, install the required packages:
$ sudo pkg_add git py3-pip mariadb-server mariadb-client
Clone the Chibisafe repository from Github to the /var/www directory with the following command:
$ sudo git clone https://github.com/Chibisafe/Chibisafe.git /var/www/chibisafe
Switch to the Chibisafe directory and install the required Python packages with pip3:
$ cd /var/www/chibisafe
$ sudo pip3 install -r requirements.txt
Configure MariaDB by running the secure installation script:
$ sudo mysql_secure_installation
Set the root password and answer the questions as prompted.
Next, log in to the MariaDB console:
$ sudo mysql -u root -p
Enter the root password and create a new database for Chibisafe:
MariaDB [(none)]> CREATE DATABASE chibisafe;
Create a new user and grant privileges to the database:
MariaDB [(none)]> CREATE USER 'chibisafe'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'chibisafepassword';
MariaDB [(none)]> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON chibisafe.* TO 'chibisafe'@'localhost';
MariaDB [(none)]> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Exit the MariaDB console:
MariaDB [(none)]> exit;
Copy the chibisafe.sample.cfg file to a new file named chibisafe.cfg:
$ sudo cp chibisafe.sample.cfg chibisafe.cfg
Open the chibisafe.cfg file and edit the following lines:
DB_URI = 'mysql+pymysql://chibisafe:chibisafepassword@localhost/chibisafe'
BASE_URL = 'http://example.com'
Replace example.com with your own domain name or IP address.
To start the Chibisafe server, run the following command:
$ sudo python3.8 run.py
Open a web browser and navigate to the Chibisafe website by entering http://example.com:5000 in the address bar. Replace example.com with your own domain name or IP address.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Chibisafe on OpenBSD.
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