How to Install PictShare on OpenBSD

PictShare is an open source image sharing platform that allows users to upload, host, and share images. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install PictShare on OpenBSD.

Prerequisites

• An OpenBSD server with root access
• A web server (e.g. Apache or Nginx)
• PHP version 7.4 or later

Step 1: Install Required Packages

The first step is to install the required packages on your OpenBSD server. Run the following command in the terminal:

$ sudo pkg_add php-fpm git composer curl

This command will install PHP-FPM, Git, Composer, and Curl.

Step 2: Clone PictShare repository

Next, clone the PictShare repository to your server:

$ git clone https://github.com/chrisiaut/pictshare.git /var/www/pictshare

This command will clone the PictShare repository to the /var/www/pictshare directory.

Step 3: Install Dependencies

After cloning the repository, install the dependencies by running the following command inside the /var/www/pictshare directory:

$ composer install

This command will install all the required dependencies for PictShare.

Step 4: Configure PHP-FPM

Now, we need to configure PHP-FPM to work with PictShare. Open the /etc/php-fpm.conf file in your text editor:

$ sudo vi /etc/php-fpm.conf

Add the following configuration at the end of the file:

[pictshare]
user = www
group = www
listen = /var/run/php-fpm.pictshare.sock
listen.owner = www
listen.group = www
listen.mode = 0660
pm = dynamic
pm.max_children = 5
pm.start_servers = 2
pm.min_spare_servers = 1
pm.max_spare_servers = 3
chdir = /

This configuration will create a new PHP-FPM pool named pictshare with a Unix socket /var/run/php-fpm.pictshare.sock.

Step 5: Configure Nginx

If you are using Nginx as your web server, you can use the following configuration to host PictShare:

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name example.com;

    root /var/www/pictshare;
    index index.php index.html index.htm;

    location / {
        try_files $uri /index.php$is_args$args;
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
        try_files $uri =404;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php-fpm.pictshare.sock;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        include fastcgi_params;
    }
}

Make sure to change the server_name and root values to match your server configuration.

Step 6: Start PHP-FPM and Web Server

Finally, start PHP-FPM and your web server using the following command:

$ sudo rcctl enable php74_fpm
$ sudo rcctl start php74_fpm
$ sudo rcctl enable nginx
$ sudo rcctl start nginx

Step 7: Access PictShare

You can now access PictShare by navigating to your server's IP address or domain name in a web browser.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed PictShare on your OpenBSD server.

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