Introduction

Joomla! is one of open source CMS softwares such as WordPress and Drupal.
This post shows the installation steps I followed to try its Alpha 12 on OpenBSD. It was released on Oct. 18, 2019. Wow, far off😅 It is perhaps around then that I did it. The latest of its v4 today is Beta 7.

Environment

OS: OpenBSD 6.6
Database: MariaDB 10.3
CMS: Joomla! Alpha 12
Web: OpenBSD httpd

Installation steps

Database: MariaDB

Connect to database server with mysql command-line client.

-- create
CREATE DATABASE <database> \
    CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 \
    COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;
-- grant privileges
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES \
    ON <database>.* \
    TO <dbuser>@'localhost' \
    IDENTIFIED BY '<dbpassword>';
-- flush
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

CMS: Joomla!

Get it.

$ ftp https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/releases/download/4.0.0-alpha12/Joomla_4.0.0-alpha12-Alpha-Full_Package.tar.bz2

Make a directory named joomla4 and place Joomla! files in it.

$ mkdir joomla4
$ tar xjf Joomla_4*.tar.bz2 -C ./joomla4

Besides, if the downloaded is a tar.gz file, of cource, tar flags are xzf. j is for .bz2 aka bzip2 and z is for .gz aka gzip.

Add permission to www aka OpenBSD httpd user.

$ doas chown -R www:www joomla4

Web: OpenBSD httpd

<fqdn> is up to environment.

server "<fqdn>" {
        listen on $ext_addr port 80
        block return 301 "https://$SERVER_NAME$REQUEST_URI"
}
server "<fqdn>" {
        listen on $ext_addr tls port 443
        tls {    
                certificate     "/etc/letsencrypt/live/<fqdn>/fullchain.pem"
                key             "/etc/letsencrypt/live/<fqdn>/privkey.pem"
        }
        log {
                access  "<fqdn>-access.log"
                error   "<fqdn>-error.log"
        }

        # up to directory structure under `/var/www` or another `chroot` path:
        root "<chroot-parent-dir>/joomla4"
        directory index index.php

        location "/*.php" { 
                fastcgi socket "/run/php-fpm.sock"
        } 
        location "/*.php[/?]*" { 
                fastcgi socket "/run/php-fpm.sock"
        } 
}