GoToSocial is a social media platform written in Go language. It can be installed on various operating systems, including OpenBSD.
In this tutorial, we will go through the steps for installing GoToSocial on OpenBSD:
Make sure Go is installed on your system. If it is not installed, you can install it using the following command:
pkg_add go
GoToSocial requires a PostgreSQL database to run. Install PostgreSQL using the following command:
pkg_add postgresql-server
To start the PostgreSQL server, run the following command:
rcctl enable postgresql
rcctl start postgresql
Clone the GoToSocial repository using the following command:
git clone https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial.git
Change into the directory where you cloned the GoToSocial repository and install the dependencies using the following command:
go get ./...
Create a new PostgreSQL user and database for GoToSocial using the following commands:
su - postgres
createuser -P gotosocial
createdb -O gotosocial gotosocial
exit
Copy the example configuration file to the configuration directory using the following command:
cp config/example.json config/config.json
Edit the config.json file and set the appropriate values for the following fields:
"dsn": "host=/var/run/postgresql dbname=gotosocial user=gotosocial password=<password> sslmode=disable""cookieSecret": "<generate a random string>"Build and run GoToSocial using the following command:
go run cmd/gotosocial/main.go serve
You should see output similar to the following:
2021/10/19 09:00:19 Serving on http://localhost:8080
You can now access GoToSocial by navigating to http://localhost:8080 in your web browser.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed and set up GoToSocial on OpenBSD.
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