Installing Koel on OpenBSD

Koel is a web-based personal music streaming server that lets you stream your music anywhere, from any device. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Koel on OpenBSD.

Prerequisites

Before we proceed with the installation, make sure that:

• You have a user account with sudo privileges on your OpenBSD server.
• OpenBSD is up-to-date, and all the packages are up-to-date.

Step 1 - Install Required Dependencies

The first step is to install the required dependencies for Koel. We will use the pkg_add command to install the following packages:

sudo pkg_add php php-curl php-fpm php-gd php-mbstring php-pdo php-pdo_pgsqlpostgresql git nginx

Step 2 - Clone the Koel Repository

Next, we will clone the Koel repository from GitHub. You can use Git to clone the latest release from the Koel repository.

git clone https://github.com/koel/koel.git

Step 3 - Install Koel

After cloning the Koel repository, navigate to the koel directory.

cd koel

Now, install the required dependencies using the Composer package manager.

php composer.phar install

Step 4 - Configure Koel

By default, Koel comes with a sample configuration file. We will create a copy of this file and configure it.

cp .env.sample .env

Open the .env file using your preferred text editor.

vi .env

Set the following configuration options in the .env file.

APP_ENV=production
APP_KEY=YOUR_APP_KEY_HERE
APP_NAME="Your Music Player"

DB_CONNECTION=pgsql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=5432
DB_DATABASE=koel
DB_USERNAME=koel
DB_PASSWORD=password

MPD_HOST=127.0.0.1
MPD_PORT=6600

LASTFM_ENABLED=false
LASTFM_API_KEY=
LASTFM_API_SECRET=

SPOTIFY_ENABLED=false
SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID=
SPOTIFY_CLIENT_SECRET=
SPOTIFY_REDIRECT_URI=

ADMIN_EMAIL=admin@example.com
ADMIN_NAME=Administrator
ADMIN_PASSWORD=password

Step 5 - Configure Nginx

Next, we need to configure Nginx to serve Koel.

Create a new Nginx server block.

sudo vi /etc/nginx/sites-available/koel

Add the following configuration to the koel server block:

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name example.com;

    root /var/www/koel/public;
    index index.php;

    access_log /var/log/nginx/koel-access.log;
    error_log /var/log/nginx/koel-error.log;

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

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

Note that you should change the server name and the particular paths to match your server configuration.

After saving the changes, enable the koel server block and reload Nginx.

sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/koel /etc/nginx/sites-enabled
sudo systemctl reload nginx

Conclusion

That's it! You have successfully installed Koel on OpenBSD. You can now access your music library on your OpenBSD server at http://example.com.

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