Installing Raneto on OpenBSD

Raneto is an open-source, Markdown-powered knowledge base platform. It allows users to create, manage and publish documentation with ease. In this tutorial, we will cover the process of installing Raneto on OpenBSD.

Prerequisites:

  • A fresh OpenBSD 6.8 installation with root access.
  • Basic knowledge of the OpenBSD terminal.

Step 1: System update and package installation

The first step is to update your system and install the required packages. OpenBSD uses pkg_add to install packages:

$ doas pkg_add -uU

This updates the package database and installs any available updates.

Next, we need to install the following packages:

  • node (Node.js® JavaScript runtime)
  • git (Distributed version control system)
$ doas pkg_add node git

Step 2: Clone Raneto repository

Raneto's source code is hosted on Github. We can clone the repository using git.

$ git clone https://github.com/gilbitron/Raneto.git

Step 3: Install Raneto packages

Navigate to the Raneto directory (use the cd command if needed) and install Raneto's dependencies:

$ cd Raneto
$ npm install

Step 4: Configure Raneto

Raneto requires certain configurations before it can be used. These configurations are stored in a file named default.json. We will create a copy of the default configuration:

$ cp config/default.json config/production.json

Open the production.json file in your preferred text editor and modify the following fields:

{
  "site_url": "http://localhost:3000",
  "port": "3000"
}

site_url should be set as the URL at which Raneto will be hosted. In this case, it is set to http://localhost:3000. port is the port number at which Raneto will listen.

Step 5: Start Raneto

Finally, we can start Raneto using the following command:

$ npm start --production

In a few moments, Raneto will start and you will see the following message in the terminal:

Raneto server listening at http://localhost:3000

You can now access Raneto in a web browser by navigating to the URL specified in site_url and port specified in port. In this case, it is http://localhost:3000.

Conclusion:

In this tutorial, we have installed Raneto on OpenBSD. Raneto is a versatile and powerful platform that can help users manage documentation and knowledge base with ease.