How to Install Roadiz on OpenBSD

Roadiz is a modern CMS and framework based on Symfony components that can be installed on various operating systems. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the steps to install Roadiz on OpenBSD.

Prerequisites

Before you start, make sure you have the following prerequisites installed on your OpenBSD server:

• Apache or Nginx web server
• PHP 7.2 or later
• MySQL database server
• Git version control system

Step 1 - Install Required Packages

Before you start the installation process, you need to install some required packages on your OpenBSD server. Open your terminal and run the following command to install the required packages:

$ sudo pkg_add php php-mysql php-pdo php-gd mysql-server git unzip

Step 2 - Configure MySQL Database

Next, you need to create a MySQL database and user for Roadiz. Log in to your MySQL server with the root user and create a new database and user with the following commands:

$ sudo mysql -u root -p
mysql> CREATE DATABASE roadiz;
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON roadiz.* TO 'roadizuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

Replace password with your preferred password.

Step 3 - Install Roadiz

Clone the Roadiz repository from GitHub to your OpenBSD server using Git:

$ git clone https://github.com/roadiz/roadiz.git

Next, navigate to the roadiz directory and copy the .env.example file to .env:

$ cd roadiz
$ cp .env.example .env

Edit the .env file and set the database configuration variables to match the database you created in Step 2:

...
DATABASE_URL=mysql://roadizuser:password@localhost/roadiz
...

Replace roadizuser and password with the database username and password you created earlier.

Next, install the dependencies using Composer, which is a dependency manager for PHP:

$ php composer.phar install --no-dev --optimize-autoloader

Once the installation is complete, generate the application key and clear the cache with the following command:

$ bin/roadiz generate:key
$ bin/console cache:clear --env=prod

Finally, create the required directories and set the correct permissions:

$ mkdir public/files
$ chmod 777 public/files
$ mkdir var/cache
$ mkdir var/logs
$ chmod 777 var/cache
$ chmod 777 var/logs

Step 4 - Configure Web Server

In this step, we will configure our web server to serve Roadiz. For Apache, create a new virtual host configuration file with the following command:

$ sudo nano /etc/httpd/conf/roadiz.conf

Add the following configuration to the file:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName example.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/roadiz/public

    <Directory /var/www/roadiz/public>
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        DirectoryIndex index.php
        Require all granted
    </Directory>

    ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/roadiz_error.log
    CustomLog /var/log/httpd/roadiz_access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

Replace example.com with your domain name. Save and close the file.

For Nginx, create a new virtual host configuration file:

$ sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/roadiz.conf

Add the following configuration to the file:

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name example.com;
    root /var/www/roadiz/public;

    index index.php index.html;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php-fpm.sock;
        include fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $fastcgi_script_name;
    }

    error_log /var/log/nginx/roadiz_error.log;
    access_log /var/log/nginx/roadiz_access.log;
}

Replace example.com with your domain name. Save and close the file.

Step 5 - Restart Web Server

After configuring the web server, we need to restart it:

$ sudo rcctl restart httpd

For Nginx, use the following command to enable the virtual host and reload Nginx:

$ sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/roadiz.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
$ sudo systemctl reload nginx

Step 6 - Access Roadiz

Now you can access your Roadiz installation by opening your web browser and navigating to your domain name.

You will be presented with the Roadiz installation wizard. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation.

Conclusion

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Roadiz on OpenBSD. You can now start building your website using Roadiz's powerful CMS and framework features.

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