How to Install Fess on OpenBSD

This tutorial will guide you on installing Fess on an OpenBSD system. Fess is a search engine platform based on Elasticsearch.

Prerequisites

Before we proceed with the installation, make sure the following prerequisites are met:

  • A running instance of OpenBSD.
  • An account with sudo privileges.

Step 1: Update the System

First, update the OpenBSD system to ensure that all the packages are up to date.

sudo pkg_add -u

Step 2: Install Dependencies

Next, install the following dependencies:

  • Elasticsearch
  • Java Development Kit (JDK)

To install Elasticsearch:

sudo pkg_add elasticsearch
sudo rcctl enable elasticsearch
sudo rcctl start elasticsearch

To install the JDK:

sudo pkg_add openjdk

Step 3: Download and Install Fess

  1. Download the latest version of Fess from https://fess.codelibs.org/.
  2. Extract the archive.
tar -xzvf fess-x.x.x.tar.gz
  1. Move the extracted directory to the /usr/local directory.
sudo mv fess-x.x.x /usr/local

Step 4: Configure Fess

  1. Navigate to the Fess installation directory.
cd /usr/local/fess-x.x.x/
  1. Edit the fess.in.sh file.
sudo nano fess.in.sh
  1. Set the FESS\_JAVA\_OPTS environment variable to use the OpenJDK.
FESS\_JAVA\_OPTS="-Xms512m -Xmx1g -Djava.awt.headless=true -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction=75 -Djna.nosys=true -XX:-OmitStackTraceInFastThrow -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=/usr/local/share/certs/ca-root-nss.crt -Djdk.http.auth.tunneling.disabledSchemes= -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -XX:HeapDumpPath=/var/fess/heapdump.hprof -Djava.security.policy==/usr/local/fess-x.x.x/plugin.security.policy"

JAVA\_HOME=/usr/local/jdk-11/

PATH=$PATH:$JAVA\_HOME/bin

export PATH JAVA\_HOME FESS\_JAVA\_OPTS

  1. Save and exit the file.

  2. Edit the fess\_config.properties file.

sudo nano /usr/local/fess-x.x.x/app/WEB-INF/classes/fess\_config.properties
  1. Configure the Elasticsearch server.
# Elasticsearch property
elasticsearch.host=localhost
elasticsearch.port=9200
  1. Save and exit the file.

Step 5: Start Fess

  1. Start Fess using the following command.
sudo /usr/local/fess-x.x.x/bin/fess start
  1. Verify that Fess is running by accessing http://localhost:8080/ in a web browser.

Conclusion

Congratulations! Fess has now been successfully installed on your OpenBSD system. You can now proceed to configure it to meet your specific search engine requirements.