PukiWiki is a simple wiki system written in PHP that allows users to easily publish and edit online content. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the installation process of PukiWiki on OpenBSD operating system.
Before installation, make sure that you have:
First, download the latest version of PukiWiki from the official website. Navigate to https://pukiwiki.osdn.jp, click on the Download link, and then choose the latest stable release for OpenBSD.
After downloading the file, extract the contents to the /var/www/htdocs directory.
cd /tmp
fetch https://osdn.net/dl/pukiwiki/pukiwiki-1.5.2.tar.gz
tar xzvf pukiwiki-1.5.2.tar.gz
sudo mv pukiwiki-1.5.2 /var/www/htdocs/
By default, Apache server and PHP are configured to work together. However, we need to make sure that the necessary modules are enabled.
Open the Apache configuration file, located at /etc/httpd.conf, and make sure that the following lines are uncommented:
LoadModule php7_module libexec/apache24/libphp-7.3.so
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
Save and exit the file.
Next, open the PHP configuration file, located at /etc/php-7.3.ini, and make sure that the following lines are uncommented:
extension=pdo_mysql.so
extension=mysqli.so
Save and exit the file.
Restart the Apache server to apply the changes.
sudo rcctl restart httpd
To store the PukiWiki data, we need to create a MySQL database. Log in to the MySQL command line interface with the root user:
mysql -u root -p
Create a new database called pukiwiki:
CREATE DATABASE pukiwiki;
Create a new user and grant all privileges on the pukiwiki database:
CREATE USER 'pukiwikiuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON pukiwiki.* TO 'pukiwikiuser'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Exit the MySQL command line interface.
Copy the skin/default directory to /var/www/htdocs/pukiwiki-1.5.2/skin/. Navigate to the pukiwiki-1.5.2 directory and edit the pukiwiki.ini.php configuration file:
sudo cp skin/default /var/www/htdocs/pukiwiki-1.5.2/skin/
cd /var/www/htdocs/pukiwiki-1.5.2/
sudo cp pukiwiki.ini.php.sample pukiwiki.ini.php
sudo ee pukiwiki.ini.php
In the pukiwiki.ini.php file, modify the following lines according to your MySQL database connection details:
define('DB_TYPE', 'mysql');
define('DB_USER', 'pukiwikiuser');
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'password');
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');
define('DB_NAME', 'pukiwiki');
Save and exit the file.
Now that PukiWiki is installed and configured, open a web browser and navigate to http://<your-server-ip>/pukiwiki-1.5.2/index.php. You should see the PukiWiki homepage.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed PukiWiki on your OpenBSD server. You can now start creating and editing pages on your new wiki.
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