Installing FlatPress on OpenBSD

This tutorial will guide you through the process of installing the FlatPress blogging system on OpenBSD.

Prerequisites

• An OpenBSD server with root access.
• A web server installed and running, such as Apache or Nginx.
• PHP installed and configured with your web server.
• MySQL or MariaDB installed and configured.

Step 1: Download and Extract FlatPress

1. Navigate to the FlatPress website and download the latest release of FlatPress.
2. SSH into your OpenBSD server as the root user.
3. Create a directory in your web server's document root for FlatPress. For example, if your document root is /var/www/htdocs, you could create the directory /var/www/htdocs/flatpress.
4. Change to the directory you just created.
5. Upload the FlatPress archive to the directory you just created, or alternatively, use wget to download the archive from the command line.

cd /var/www/htdocs/flatpress
wget https://github.com/flatpress/flatpress/releases/download/v1.1/flatpress-1.1-tar.gz

6. Extract the archive.

tar -xzf flatpress-1.1-tar.gz

Step 2: Update Configuration Files

1. Navigate to the flatpress directory that was just created.

cd flatpress

2. Rename the fp-config-sample.php file to fp-config.php.

mv fp-config-sample.php fp-config.php

3. Edit the fp-config.php file and update the following settings:

• FP_PATH: The relative or absolute path to your FlatPress installation. For example, if your document root is /var/www/htdocs, and you installed FlatPress in /var/www/htdocs/flatpress, set this value to ../flatpress/.
• FP_ADMIN_USER: The username for the FlatPress admin account.
• FP_ADMIN_PASSWORD: The password for the FlatPress admin account.
• FP_DB_USER: The username for the MySQL/MariaDB database user.
• FP_DB_PASSWORD: The password for the MySQL/MariaDB database user.
• FP_DB_NAME: The name of the MySQL/MariaDB database that FlatPress should use.

Save and close the file.

Step 3: Create the Database

1. Log in to your MySQL/MariaDB server as the root user.

mysql -u root -p

2. Create a database for FlatPress and grant the database user you specified in fp-config.php permissions on the database.

CREATE DATABASE flatpress;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON flatpress.* TO 'fpuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'fppassword';

Replace fpuser and fppassword with the username and password you specified in fp-config.php.

3. Exit MySQL/MariaDB.

exit

Step 4: Set File and Directory Permissions

1. Change to the flatpress directory.

cd /var/www/htdocs/flatpress

2. Update the permissions on the cache and backup directories.

chmod -R 777 cache backup

3. If your web server user is not the same as the owner of the flatpress directory, update the ownership of the flatpress directory.

chown -R USER:GROUP /var/www/htdocs/flatpress

Replace USER and GROUP with the user and group that your web server runs as. For example, www:www for Apache.

Step 5: Accessing FlatPress

1. Open your web browser and navigate to your FlatPress installation at http://yourdomain.com/flatpress. Replace yourdomain.com with your server's domain name or IP address.

2. You should see the FlatPress installation wizard. Follow the prompts to complete the installation. If you encounter any errors, double-check the configuration settings in fp-config.php.

3. Once the installation is complete, log in to the FlatPress administration panel at http://yourdomain.com/flatpress/admin.php and begin customizing your blog!

Congratulations, you have successfully installed FlatPress on OpenBSD.

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