Let me share an installation guide on OpenBSD for a product I like: kanboard. It's a Kanban board written in PHP, it's easy of use, light, effective, the kind of software I like.
While there is a docker image for easy deployment on Linux, there is no guide to install it on OpenBSD. I did it successfuly, including httpd for the web server.
Kanboard official project website
We will need a fairly simple stack:
Prepare a directory where kanboard will be extracted, it must be owned by root:
install -d -o root -g wheel -m 755 /var/www/htdocs/kanboard
Download the latest version of kanboard, prefer the .tar.gz file because it won't require an extra program.
Extract the archive, and move the extracted content into `/var/www/htdocs/kanboard`; the file `/var/www/htdocs/kanboard/cli` should exists if you did it correctly.
Now, you need to fix the permissions for a single directory inside the project to allow the web server to write persistent data.
install -d -o www -g www -m 755 /var/www/htdocs/kanboard/data
For kanboard, we will need PHP and a few extensions. They can be installed and enabled using the following command: (for the future, 8.2 will be obsolete, adapt to the current PHP version)
pkg_add php-zip--%8.2 php-curl--%8.2 php-zip--%8.2 php-pdo_sqlite--%8.2
for mod in pdo_sqlite opcache gd zip curl
do
ln -s /etc/php-8.2.sample/${mod}.ini /etc/php-8.2/
done
rcctl enable php82_fpm
rcctl start php82_fpm
Now you have the service php82_fpm (chrooted in /var/www/) ready to be used by httpd.
Configure the web server httpd, you can use nginx or apache if you prefer, with the following piece of configuration:
server "kanboard.my.domain" {
listen on * port 80
location "*.php" {
fastcgi socket "/run/php-fpm.sock"
}
# don't rewrite for assets (fonts, images)
location "/assets/*" {
root "/htdocs/kanboard/"
pass
}
location match "/(.*)" {
request rewrite "/index.php%1"
}
location "/*" {
root "/htdocs/kanboard"
}
}
Now, enable httpd if not already done, and (re)start httpd:
rcctl enable httpd rcctl restart httpd
From now, Kanboard should be reachable and usable. The default credentials are admin/admin.
If you want to send emails, you have three choices:
If you want to use one of the first two methods, you will have to add a few files to the chroot like `/bin/sh`; you can find accurate and up to date information about the specific changes in the file `/usr/local/share/doc/pkg-readms/php-8.2`.
If you want to use a remote server with authentication (I made a dedicated account for kanboard on my mail server):
Copy `/var/www/htdocs/kanboard/config.default.php` as `/var/www/htdocs/kanboard/config.php`, and changes the variables below accordingly:
define('MAIL_TRANSPORT', 'smtp');
define('MAIL_SMTP_HOSTNAME', 'my-server.local');
define('MAIL_SMTP_PORT', 587);
define('MAIL_SMTP_USERNAME', 'YOUR_SMTP_USER');
define('MAIL_SMTP_PASSWORD', 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXx');
define('MAIL_SMTP_HELO_NAME', null);
define('MAIL_SMTP_ENCRYPTION', "tls");
Your kanboard should be able to send emails now. You can check by creating a new task, and click on "Send by email".
NOTE: Your user also NEED to enable email notifications.
For some tasks like reminding emails or stats computation, Kanboard requires to run a daily job by running a the CLI version.
You can do it as the www user in root crontab:
0 1 * * * -ns su -m www -c 'cd /var/www/htdocs/kanboard && /usr/local/bin/php-8.2 cli cronjob'
Kanboard is a fine piece of software, I really like the kanban workflow to organize. I hope you'll enjoy it as well.
I'd also add that installing software without docker is still a thing, this requires you to know exactly what you need to make it run, and how to configure it, but I'd consider this a security bonus point. Think that it will also have all its dependencies updated along with your system upgrades over time.