Orange Forum is a lightweight and fast forum software that is easy to install and use. In this tutorial, we will go through the steps to install Orange Forum on OpenBSD.
Before installing Orange Forum, we need to install some required packages:
sudo pkg_add python py-pip py-virtualenv
Download Orange Forum from its official website using the following command:
wget https://www.goodoldweb.com/download/orange-forum-1.5.5.tar.gz
Extract the downloaded file and move it to the desired location.
tar xzf orange-forum-1.5.5.tar.gz
sudo mv orange-forum-1.5.5 /var/www/
Create a virtual environment for Orange Forum using the following command:
cd /var/www/orange-forum-1.5.5/
sudo virtualenv orange
Activate the virtual environment we just created:
source /var/www/orange-forum-1.5.5/orange/bin/activate
Install the required dependencies for Orange Forum using pip:
pip install -r requirements.txt
Orange Forum uses SQLite as its default database. However, you can use other databases as well. In this tutorial, we will use SQLite as the database.
Copy the sample database configuration file:
cp of.db.sample of.db
To create the necessary tables and fields in the database, run the following command:
python manage.py db upgrade
Finally, start Orange Forum using the following command:
python manage.py runserver
After completing this tutorial, you should now have Orange Forum running on your OpenBSD system. You can access it by opening a web browser and going to http://localhost:5000/.
Now you can customize your forum and start building your community.
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