ENiGMA½ BBS on EL7

Alteeve Wiki :: How To :: ENiGMA½ BBS on EL7

Warning: This is just a raw dump on notes. Built on internal VMs for now.

CentOS 7

# Setup our internal repo (to be moved to external repo)
curl http://192.168.122.231/repo/el7/alteeve.repo > /etc/yum.repos.d/alteeve.repo

# Install stuff
yum -y groupinstall development 
yum -y install httpd gcc gcc-c++ mlocate vim nodejs npm

# Enable and start apache
systemctl start httpd
systemctl enable httpd

# Open http
firewall-cmd --add-service http 
firewall-cmd --add-service https 
firewall-cmd --runtime-to-permanent

Browse to http://enigma-bbs, verify default apache page is visible.

Download ENiGMA½:

mkdir /var/www/html
cd /var/www/html
npm -g install npm@latest
npm install

Setup SSH:

mkdir /var/www/html/misc
openssl genrsa -des3 -out ./misc/ssh_private_key.pem 8191

Initial config:

vim /var/www/config.hjson

general: {
  boardName: AN!BBS
}
servers: {
  ssh: {
    privateKeyPass: <passphrase used in keygen>
    enabled: true /* set to false to disable the SSH server */
  }
}
messages: {
  areas: [
    { name: "anvil_discusssion", desc: "Anvil! Discussion", groups: [ "users" ] }
  ]
}

Start it up;

/var/www/html/enigma-bbs/main.js --config /var/www/config.hjson

module.js:340
    throw err;
          ^
Error: Cannot find module 'async'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:338:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:280:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
    at require (module.js:380:17)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/var/www/html/enigma-bbs/core/config.js:8:16)
    at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
    at Module.require (module.js:364:17)

>_<

References

• ENiGMA½ BBS on Github
• Author's blog

 

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