How to Install Moonmoon on OpenBSD

Moonmoon is a simple web-based news aggregator written in PHP, designed to allow users to read news from multiple sources in one place. Here's how you can install Moonmoon on OpenBSD:

Step 1: Install Dependencies

Before installing Moonmoon, you need to make sure that all the required dependencies are installed on your OpenBSD system. In this case, we need to install the following packages:

$ sudo pkg_add php php-gd php-mbstring php-curl php-pdo_sqlite

Step 2: Download Moonmoon

You can download Moonmoon from the official website at https://moonmoon.org/. Once downloaded, extract the contents of the archive to a directory of your choice. For example:

$ tar xvf moonmoon-x.y.z.tar.gz
$ sudo mv moonmoon-x.y.z /var/www/htdocs/moonmoon

Step 3: Configure Moonmoon

After installing Moonmoon, you need to configure it by creating a configuration file named config.php in the config directory. This configuration file should contain the necessary information about your Moonmoon installation, such as the database connection information, the list of feeds to fetch, and other settings.

Here's a sample configuration file you can use to get started:

<?php

define('DB_NAME', '/var/www/htdocs/moonmoon/config/data.db');
define('DB_TYPE', 'sqlite');
define('DEBUG_MODE', false);
define('CACHE_DIR', '/var/www/htdocs/moonmoon/config/cache');

$feeds = array(
    array(
        'title' => 'Example Feed',
        'url'   => 'https://example.com/feed/',
    ),
);

?>

Make sure to adjust the values of DB_NAME and CACHE_DIR to match the directories you want to use for Moonmoon's database and cache, respectively. You can also add more feeds to the $feeds array, and customize other settings as needed.

Step 4: Create Database

You need to create the database for Moonmoon. OpenBSD comes with sqlite2, which Moonmoon no longer supports; we will use sqlite3 for the database.

$ sudo pkg_add sqlite3

Create the database and table.

$ cd /var/www/htdocs/moonmoon/config/
$ sudo sqlite3 data.db "CREATE TABLE entries (id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, title TEXT, link TEXT, time TEXT, content TEXT);"

Step 5: Set Permissions

You need to give the web server permissions to write to the cache and config directories.

$ sudo chgrp www /var/www/htdocs/moonmoon/config/cache/
$ sudo chgrp www /var/www/htdocs/moonmoon/config/data.db
$ sudo chmod g+w /var/www/htdocs/moonmoon/config/cache/
$ sudo chmod g+w /var/www/htdocs/moonmoon/config/data.db

Step 6: Access Moonmoon

You can now access Moonmoon by navigating to the URL of your installation, for example: http://localhost/moonmoon/.

Congratulations, you have successfully installed and configured Moonmoon on OpenBSD. Feel free to experiment with the configuration options and add more feeds to your news aggregator!

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