Installing Conference Organizing Distribution (COD) on OpenBSD

Conference Organizing Distribution (COD) is a Drupal-based distribution designed for managing conference and event websites. In this tutorial, we will be installing COD on OpenBSD.

Prerequisites

Before we begin, you will need:

OpenBSD installed
A web server installed and running (e.g. Apache, nginx)

Step 1: Download COD

To download COD, you can use the command:

$ ftp http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/cod-7.x-1.0-beta3-core.tar.gz

Note: This command will download the latest version of COD at the time of writing. You can check for the latest version on the official website.

Step 2: Extract COD

Once the download is complete, you can extract the files using the following command:

$ tar xf cod-7.x-1.0-beta3-core.tar.gz

This will create a new directory called "cod" containing all the files of COD.

Step 3: Move COD to the web server directory

Next, we need to move the "cod" directory to the web server directory. In this tutorial, we will be using Apache as an example. The Apache web server directory on OpenBSD is located at /var/www/htdocs/. You can move the "cod" directory to the Apache directory using the following command:

$ mv cod/* /var/www/htdocs/

This command will move all the files and directories from the "cod" directory to the Apache web server directory. If you are using a different web server, please move the "cod" directory to the appropriate directory.

Step 4: Set permissions

For the web server to access the files, we need to set the appropriate permissions. You can set the permissions using the following command:

$ chown -R www /var/www/htdocs

This command will set the owner of the Apache web server directory to "www".

Step 5: Install Drupal modules

COD relies on several Drupal modules. We need to download and install them before we can use COD. To download and install the modules, you can use the following command:

$ cd /var/www/htdocs
$ drush dl ctools entity features date views views_bulk_operations media webform
$ drush en ctools entity features date views views_bulk_operations media webform -y

This command will download and install the necessary modules using Drush (Drupal Shell).

Step 6: Install COD

To install COD, we need to navigate to the website using a web browser. Open a web browser and enter the following URL:

http://localhost/

This will open the Drupal installer. Follow the on-screen instructions to install Drupal.

Once Drupal is installed, navigate to the "Extend" tab in the admin menu and enable the "COD" module. COD is now installed!

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we have learned how to install COD on OpenBSD. COD is a powerful distribution for managing conference and event websites. We hope this tutorial was helpful.