How to Install CMS Made Simple on OpenBSD

CMS Made Simple is an open-source content management system that is easy to use and customize according to your requirements. This tutorial will guide you through the installation process of CMS Made Simple on the OpenBSD operating system.

Prerequisites

Before you proceed with the installation process, ensure that you have the following prerequisites:

  • A working OpenBSD installation
  • A web server installed on OpenBSD - for instance, Apache, Nginx, or LiteSpeed
  • PHP 5.x/7.x installed
  • MySQL database server installed
  • An FTP client installed on your local system

Step 1: Download the CMS Made Simple Package

  1. Go to the CMS Made Simple website and download the latest stable release of the CMS Made Simple package.

    Alternatively, you can download it using the following command on the OpenBSD terminal:

    ```
$ ftp https://s3.amazonaws.com/cmsms/downloads/2.x/cmsms-2.2.16.tar.gz
```

  2. Extract the CMS Made Simple package using the following command:

    ```
$ tar -xvf cmsms-2.2.16.tar.gz
```

Step 2: Create a MySQL Database and User

  1. Log in to the MySQL server as the root user:

    ```
$ mysql -u root -p
```

  2. Create a MySQL database and user for your CMS Made Simple installation:

    ```
mysql> CREATE DATABASE cmsdb;
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON cmsdb.* TO 'cmsuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'cmspassword';
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
mysql> exit;
```

    Replace cmsdb, cmsuser, and cmspassword with your desired database name, username, and password, respectively.

Step 3: Configure PHP

  1. Open the PHP configuration file /etc/php-7.1.ini using a text editor.

  2. Uncomment the following line by removing the semicolon (;):

    ```
;extension=mysqli.so
```

    This enables the MySQL extension for PHP.

  3. Save and close the file.

Step 4: Install CMS Made Simple

  1. Use an FTP client to upload the extracted CMS Made Simple files to the web server's document root directory.

  2. Set the correct permissions for the CMS Made Simple files:

    ```
$ chown -R www:www /var/www/htdocs/cmsms-2.2.16
$ chmod -R 755 /var/www/htdocs/cmsms-2.2.16
```

    Replace /var/www/htdocs/cmsms-2.2.16 with your CMS Made Simple installation directory.

  3. Navigate to your CMS Made Simple installation directory in a web browser, e.g., http://localhost/cmsms-2.2.16/.

  4. Follow the installation instructions provided by the CMS Made Simple setup wizard.

    During the installation, provide the following details:

    • Database name: cmsdb
    • Database username: cmsuser
    • Database password: cmspassword

  5. Complete the setup wizard, and you should now have CMS Made Simple installed on your OpenBSD system.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, you learned how to install CMS Made Simple on OpenBSD. Once installed, you can start creating and managing your website's content using the features provided by CMS Made Simple.