OpenBSD OpenCA Installation Procedure

Introduction

The following document outlines the installation instructions for OpenCA under OpenBSD.

Configuration

The following installation was performed under OpenBSD 3.8 although the process should apply to newer versions.

./configure --prefix=/opt --with-openca-prefix=/opt \
 --with-httpd-user=www --with-httpd-group=www \
 --with-openca-user=openca --with-opeca-group=openca \
 --with-httpd-fs-prefix=/var/www \
 --with-web-host=openca.echothrust.dev
gmake
mkdir -p /opt/etc/{servers,access_control}
gmake install-common install-online install-offline install-ca install-pub

After the installation is over a good thing to do is replace the OpenCA Perl XML-Twig package with the default package from the openbsd ports as for some reason the original seems to fail… pkg_add ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.8/packages/i386/p5-XML-Twig-3.15.tar.gz

Now if everything is well

cp src/common/etc/config.xml /opt/etc/
cd /opt/
sh etc/configure_etc.sh