How to Install Talkyard on OpenBSD

Talkyard is an open-source discussion platform for communicating with your team, customers or users. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Talkyard on OpenBSD.

Prerequisites

• A server running OpenBSD 6.9 or newer.
• A user account with root or sudo privileges.

Step 1: Install Required Packages

In this step, we will install some required packages for Talkyard installation. OpenBSD uses pkg_add package manager to install packages.

sudo pkg_add -v node git cmark

Step 2: Clone Talkyard Repository

We will need to clone the Talkyard repository from Github to the server. Run the below command in the terminal to clone the repository.

git clone https://github.com/debiki/talkyard.git

Step 3: Build Talkyard

After you have cloned the Talkyard repository, move into the talkyard directory and run the following command to build the application.

cd talkyard
./build.sh re

This process may take some time, so have patience.

Step 4: Configure Talkyard

After the build is successful, we need to configure Talkyard for our specific needs. In this step, we will modify the conf/brownser-app.conf file to suit our requirements.

cd conf
cp example.brownser-app.conf brownser-app.conf

Now, we can use an editor like nano to edit the conf/brownser-app.conf file to update the settings.

nano brownser-app.conf

We will need to modify the orgFullName, defaultSiteHostname, siteStatus and version parameters according to our requirements.

--- a/conf/example.browser-app.conf
+++ b/conf/browser-app.conf
@@ -3,9 +3,9 @@
   orgFullName: Your Organization Name. Required.
   // Example: 'My Website'
   defaultSiteHostname: "your-domain.com",  // This is the site's domain name, without http://, and without any path or port.
-  siteStatus: "development",     // or "testing", "live"
+  siteStatus: "live",     // or "testing", "live"
   version: "vXX.XX-Xx",          // E.g. 'v0.3.00-18-gbf3e452'

   name: "Talkyard",
   logoUrl: "/assets/img/logo.svg",

Step 5: Run Talkyard

Now, we can run Talkyard using the following command.

cd ../
sudo ./start.sh

This command will start the Talkyard application, and you will see the logs on the terminal window.

We can now access Talkyard at http://localhost:8080.

Conclusion

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Talkyard on OpenBSD. You can now create an account and start using the application. Have fun!

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