How to Install Motor Admin on FreeBSD

Motor Admin is a web-based database management tool that allows you to manage multiple databases from a single console. This tutorial will guide you through the process of installing Motor Admin on FreeBSD.

Prerequisites

Before beginning the installation process, please make sure that you have the following prerequisites installed on your FreeBSD system:

• Git
• Node.js and npm
• MongoDB

Step 1: Clone the Motor Admin Repository

The first step is to clone the Motor Admin repository from GitHub. You can do this by running the following command:

git clone https://github.com/motor/motor-admin.git

This will clone the Motor Admin repository to your current working directory.

Step 2: Install Dependencies

Once you have cloned the Motor Admin repository, navigate to the project directory and run the following command:

npm install

This will install all the necessary dependencies for Motor Admin.

Step 3: Configure Motor Admin

Next, you need to configure Motor Admin to connect to your MongoDB database. To do this, copy the config.example.js file to config.js:

cp config.example.js config.js

Then, open the config.js file and modify the mongodbUrl property to reflect your MongoDB connection string.

Step 4: Build and Start Motor Admin

Finally, you can build and start Motor Admin with the following command:

npm run build
npm start

This will build the Motor Admin application and start it on port 3000.

Conclusion

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Motor Admin on FreeBSD. You can now visit the Motor Admin website in your browser by navigating to http://localhost:3000. From here, you can manage your databases with ease.