How to Install Oddmuse on NetBSD

Oddmuse is a wiki engine developed in Perl which allows you to create and edit wiki pages. If you are using NetBSD, here is a simple guide on how to install Oddmuse.

Prerequisites

Before installing Oddmuse, you need to ensure that the following prerequisites are installed on your NetBSD system:

  • Perl
  • Apache web server
  • Git

Installation

  1. Clone Oddmuse from the GitHub repository using the command below:
$ git clone https://github.com/oddmuse/oddmuse.git
  1. Copy the Oddmuse files to your Apache document root directory by running the following commands:
$ cd oddmuse
$ cp -Rp wiki /usr/pkg/apache/htdocs/

Note: The above command assumes that your Apache document root directory is located in /usr/pkg/apache/htdocs/. Please replace this with the document directory on your system.

  1. Change the ownership of the copied files to the Apache user by running the command below:
$ chown -R www:www /usr/pkg/apache/htdocs/wiki
  1. Install the required Perl modules by running the command below:
$ cpanm CGI CGI::Carp Digest::SHA1
  1. Create a CGI script file for Oddmuse by running the following commands:
$ cd /usr/pkg/apache/htdocs/wiki
$ cp odwiki.pl.example odwiki.pl
  1. Change the permissions of the newly created odwiki.pl file to make it executable by running the following command:
$ chmod +x odwiki.pl
  1. Edit the odwiki.pl script file and replace "/home/kensanata/public_html/" with the path of the Oddmuse installation directory, which is /usr/pkg/apache/htdocs/wiki in this case.
$ vi odwiki.pl

# Replace this:
my $oddir = "/home/kensanata/public_html/";
# with this:
my $oddir = "/usr/pkg/apache/htdocs/wiki/";

  1. Save and close the file by pressing Esc and typing :wq.

  2. Test the Oddmuse installation by accessing the following URL in your web browser:

http://localhost/wiki/odwiki.pl

You should now be able to create and edit wiki pages using Oddmuse.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, you learned how to install Oddmuse on NetBSD. If you encounter any issues during the installation, refer to the Oddmuse documentation or seek help from the NetBSD community.