How to install Oddmuse on FreeBSD Latest

Oddmuse is a wiki engine written in Perl, which allows you to create a wiki for your website. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Oddmuse on FreeBSD Latest. The installation process will require root access to the system.

Prerequisites

• FreeBSD Latest installed on your server.
• Root access to the system.

Step 1: Install Perl

Oddmuse is written in Perl, so we need to install Perl as a prerequisite. To install Perl, run the following command:

sudo pkg install perl5

Step 2: Install CPAN

CPAN is a library for Perl developers that provides a collection of modules ready for use. To install CPAN, run the following command:

sudo pkg install p5-CPAN

Step 3: Install required Perl modules

Oddmuse requires a few Perl modules to be installed. To install them, run the following command:

sudo cpan Test::More HTML::Entities CGI Encode Time::localtime URI Text::Diff HTML::Filter Text::Markdown

Step 4: Download and extract Oddmuse

Download the latest version of Oddmuse from the official website (https://oddmuse.org) using the wget command:

sudo wget https://oddmuse.org/oddmuse-VERSION.tar.gz

Extract the downloaded file using the following command:

sudo tar -zxvf oddmuse-VERSION.tar.gz

Step 5: Configure Oddmuse

Change the current directory to the directory where Oddmuse was extracted:

cd oddmuse-VERSION

Copy config-default.pl to config.pl:

sudo cp config-default.pl config.pl

Step 6: Start Oddmuse

To start the Oddmuse engine, run the following command:

perl oddmuse.pl

This will start the wiki engine on the default port 5000. You can access your wiki by opening a web browser and visiting http://<server-ip>:5000/ (replace <server-ip> with the IP address of your server).

Step 7: Configure web server

By default, Oddmuse runs on port 5000. If you want to run it on the default HTTP port 80, you need to configure your web server (Apache, Nginx, etc.) to reverse-proxy requests to Oddmuse on port 5000.

For example, in Nginx, you can add the following configuration to the server block:

location / {
    proxy_pass http://localhost:5000/;
    proxy_set_header Host $host;
    proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
}

Save the configuration and restart the web server for changes to take effect:

sudo service nginx restart

Conclusion

Congratulations! You have successfully installed and configured Oddmuse on FreeBSD Latest. You can now create a wiki for your website and start adding content to it.