Joomla! 4 (Alpha 12) Trial On OpenBSD

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"
        } 
}

Here, I used Let's Encrypt certificate from Certbot client in order to access through https. There are several options.

Web installer

Access with a web browser to https:// or some url.

The Installation processes are like these.

Site configuration:

Login information:

Database configuration:

When the installation is completed, confirmation on removing installation directory is shown for the sake of security. I did it.

The landing page is like this by default whose template is Cassiopeia.

The administrator panel is available.

Here are the administrator menus.

Well, it's familiar with mobile view thanks to their working with Bootstrap 4.
For example, the menus are toggled in mobile view.