How to Install Coral on FreeBSD Latest

Coral is a set of powerful tools for newsrooms to build better communities around the content they publish. This tutorial will guide you through the process of installing Coral on FreeBSD Latest.

Prerequisites

Before proceeding with this tutorial, make sure you have the following:

  • Access to a FreeBSD Latest server with root privileges
  • Python 3
  • Git

Step 1: Install required packages

First, we need to install some packages that are required for Coral to run:

sudo pkg install py37-pip py37-setuptools bash redis git

Step 2: Clone Coral repository

Next, we need to clone the Coral repository:

git clone https://github.com/coralproject/talk.git

Step 3: Install Coral dependencies

Change into the talk directory and install Coral dependencies:

cd talk
sudo pip install -r requirements.txt

Step 4: Configure Coral

Copy the example configuration file and edit it to suit your needs:

cp config_example.json config.json
vi config.json

You will need to modify the following parameters:

  • base_url - The URL where you will be running Coral
  • mongo_uri - The URI for your MongoDB database

Example:

{
    "mongodb_uri": "mongodb://user:[email protected]/talk",
    "base_url": "https://comments.example.com",
    "smtp": {
        "server": "smtp.example.com",
        "port": "587",
        "tls": true,
        "username": "[email protected]",
        "password": "secret"
    },
    "jwt_secret": "mysecretjwtkey",
    "admin_password": "password",
    "admin_email": "[email protected]"
}

Step 5: Create a Systemd service

Create a Systemd service file for Coral:

sudo vi /usr/local/lib/systemd/system/coral.service

Add the following to the file:

[Unit]
Description=Coral Talk
After=network.target

[Service]
WorkingDirectory=/path/to/talk
ExecStart=/bin/bash -c 'exec python bin/run_server.py'

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Replace /path/to/talk with the absolute path to your Coral directory.

Step 6: Start the Coral service

Reload Systemd and start the Coral service:

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable coral.service
sudo systemctl start coral.service

Step 7: Verify installation

Visit http://yourdomain.com in your web browser to verify that Coral is running correctly.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Coral on FreeBSD Latest.