Installing Pagekit on OpenBSD

Pagekit is a modern and lightweight content management system (CMS) that allows you to create websites with ease. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the steps required to install Pagekit on OpenBSD.

Prerequisites

Before we begin, ensure that you have the following requirements met:

  • OpenBSD installed on your system
  • Root access to the server
  • Apache web server installed and running
  • PHP 7.2 or higher with the following modules installed: php-pdo, php-sqlite3, php-mbstring, php-intl, php-zip

Step 1 - Downloading Pagekit

The first thing that we need to do is to download the latest version of Pagekit from the official website. You can do this by running the following command:

$ cd /var/www/htdocs
$ ftp https://pagekit.com/releases/latest

This will download the latest version of Pagekit to your current directory.

Step 2 - Extracting Pagekit

After downloading the Pagekit archive, we need to extract it to the document root directory of our Apache web server. You can do this by running the following command:

$ tar -xzf pagekit-*.tar.gz -C /var/www/htdocs

This command will extract the Pagekit files to the /var/www/htdocs directory.

Step 3 - Configuring Apache

Next, we need to configure Apache to serve the Pagekit files. Open the Apache configuration file located at /etc/httpd.conf using your favorite text editor.

Add the following lines to the bottom of the file:

DocumentRoot /var/www/htdocs/pagekit
<Directory /var/www/htdocs/pagekit>
    Options +FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
</Directory>

These lines will set the document root directory to the Pagekit directory and enable the .htaccess file to override Apache configuration settings.

Save and close the file.

Step 4 - Configuring PHP

Open the PHP configuration file located at /etc/php-7.3.ini (or the current version of PHP) using your favorite text editor.

Change the following settings:

max_execution_time = 180
max_input_time = 180
memory_limit = 256M

These settings will increase the maximum execution time, maximum input time, and memory limit for PHP. You may need to adjust these settings based on the requirements of your server.

Save and close the file.

Step 5 - Starting Apache and PHP

After making the necessary changes to the configuration files, we need to restart Apache and PHP for the changes to take effect.

You can do this by running the following commands:

$ doas /etc/rc.d/httpd restart
$ doas /etc/rc.d/php73_fpm restart

Note: The second command is necessary only if PHP-FPM is installed on your system.

Step 6 - Accessing Pagekit

Finally, you can access your Pagekit website by opening your web browser and navigating to http://localhost/. This will open the Pagekit installation wizard, where you can enter your database credentials and create an administrator account.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Pagekit on OpenBSD. Enjoy building your website with the modern and lightweight CMS.