In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing WebUI-aria2 on OpenBSD. WebUI-aria2 is a graphical web user interface for the popular download manager Aria2.
We assume that you already have OpenBSD installed and are familiar with basic terminal commands.
First, we need to install the dependencies required for WebUI-aria2 to run on OpenBSD:
sudo pkg_add aria2 node
Next, we need to download the WebUI-aria2 code from its GitHub repository:
git clone https://github.com/ziahamza/webui-aria2.git
Once the code is downloaded, navigate to the newly created webui-aria2 directory:
cd webui-aria2
And then run the following command to install WebUI-aria2:
npm install
Before we can use WebUI-aria2, we need to configure Aria2 with the appropriate settings. To do this, create a new configuration file with the following command:
touch ~/.aria2/aria2.conf
Then add the following lines to the aria2.conf file:
rpc-listen-port=6800
rpc-listen-all=true
rpc-secret=<SECRET_KEY>
Replace <SECRET_KEY> with a secret key of your choice. This key will be used to authenticate with WebUI-aria2 later on.
Now that we have configured Aria2, we need to start it by running the following command:
aria2c --enable-rpc --rpc-listen-all=true --rpc-secret=<SECRET_KEY>
Again, replace <SECRET_KEY> with the secret key you chose earlier.
Finally, we can start WebUI-aria2 by running the following command:
npm start
This will start the WebUI-aria2 server on port 8888. Open your web browser and navigate to http://localhost:8888/ to access the WebUI-aria2 interface.
Congratulations, you have successfully installed WebUI-aria2 on OpenBSD! You can now easily manage your downloads using the graphical interface provided by WebUI-aria2.
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