Tutorial: Installing Quru Image Server on OpenBSD

Quru Image Server is an open-source image processing server designed for high-volume image processing with low overhead. In this tutorial, we'll show you how to install Quru Image Server on OpenBSD.

Prerequisites

To complete this tutorial, you'll need:

Step 1: Install Dependencies

We'll start by installing the necessary dependencies for Quru Image Server. Open a terminal on your OpenBSD server and run the following command:

sudo pkg_add jpeg libpng libtiff giflib libwebp libimagequant

This command will install all the required libraries for Quru Image Server.

Step 2: Download and Extract Quru Image Server

Next, we'll download and extract the Quru Image Server archive. In your terminal, run the following commands:

wget https://github.com/jaywcjlove/QiS/archive/main.tar.gz
tar -zxvf main.tar.gz

This will download the Quru Image Server archive from the Github repository and extract it into a new directory called "QiS-main".

Step 3: Build and Install Quru Image Server

Now that we have all the dependencies and the Quru Image Server source code, we can build and install the server. Navigate to the newly created directory "QiS-main" and run the following commands:

make
sudo make install

The "make" command will compile the source code and create the necessary binaries, while "sudo make install" will install the binaries in the appropriate directories.

Step 4: Configure Quru Image Server

The final step is to configure Quru Image Server. The server is configured using a configuration file located at /etc/qis.conf. You can configure the server by editing this file with your preferred text editor:

sudo vi /etc/qis.conf

In this file, you can configure the server's port, cache directory, logging options, and more.

Step 5: Start Quru Image Server

Once the server is configured, you can start it with the following command:

sudo qis start

This command will start the Quru Image Server as a daemon process. You can also stop the server with the following command:

sudo qis stop

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we've shown you how to install the Quru Image Server on OpenBSD. Now that the server is installed and running, you can use it to process images at scale.

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