Install seafile server + seahub on FreeBSD

After 1.5 days of struggling with different kinds of problems and frustrations I finally succeeded in installing and running seafile on my server(FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE).

The greatest MISTAKE I made there was to follow the official installation guide for FreeBSD on the seafile server manual page. The preparation step is fine but for FreeBSD >= 10, you can NOT simply build the application from source provided there, because it has a lot of dependencies and will ask for library files FreeBSD does’t have. For example libresolv, which is in the package BIND and BIND is replaced by Unbound(https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/network-dns.html). Even if you installed BIND, it will not provide the libresolv.so file.

So the correct way to install seafile is to use the ports collection. You need ports net-mgmt/seafile and www/seahub. Make sure you deinstall ccnet first before make install seafile, otherwise the files ccnet-init, ccnet-server and ccnet-servtool in seafile/bin will not be generated and that brings trouble and desperation.

cd /usr/ports/net-mgmt/seafile
make config #[x] FUSE
cd /usr/ports/www/seahub
make config #choose ALL options
make install

seahub has a dependency to seafile, so run make install in seahub should be sufficient.
If the installation is successful, you should find everything in /usr/local/www/haiwen/seafile-server

[root@server /usr/local/www/haiwen/seafile-server]# tree --dirsfirst -L 1
.
|-- runtime
|-- seafile
|-- seahub
|-- upgrade
|-- check_init_admin.py
|-- reset-admin.sh
|-- seaf-cli-wrapper.sh
|-- seaf-fuse.sh
|-- seaf-gc.sh
|-- seafile.sh
|-- seahub.sh
|-- setup-seafile-mysql.py
|-- setup-seafile-mysql.sh
|-- setup-seafile.sh
|-- sqlite2mysql.py
`-- sqlite2mysql.sh

And the files for ccnet are in seafile/bin.

[root@server /usr/local/www/haiwen/seafile-server/seafile]# tree -L 2
.
|-- bin
|   |-- ccnet-init
|   |-- ccnet-server
|   |-- ccnet-servtool
|   |-- seaf-fsck
|   |-- seaf-fuse
|   |-- seaf-migrate
|   |-- seaf-server
|   |-- seaf-server-init
|   |-- seafile-controller
|   `-- seafserv-gc
|-- lib
|   `-- python2.7
`-- share
    `-- doc

Run ./setup-seafile.sh to setup seafile-server and seahub.
For configuration with Nginx, just follow the official manual http://manual.seafile.com/deploy/deploy_with_nginx.html but you don’t need to install python-flup, it should already be installed with seahub.
Start with ./seafile.sh start and ./seafile.sh start-fastcgi
If you get any error messages like this: ImportError: No module named <module>, just install the python module with pip install <module> or easy_install <module>, but make sure the versions match those used by seahub.

DISTFILES= ${PORTNAME}-${PORTVERSION}.tar.gz:${PORTNAME} \
pip-1.5.6.tar.gz:pip \
 pbr-0.10.0.tar.gz:pbr \
 lockfile-0.10.2.tar.gz:lockfile \
 six-1.8.0.tar.gz:six \
 gunicorn-18.0.tar.gz:gunicorn \
 flup-1.0.2.tar.gz:flup \
 daemon-1.1.tar.gz:daemon \
 chardet-2.3.0.tar.gz:chardet \
 python-dateutil-2.2.tar.gz:dateutil \
 Pillow-2.6.1.zip:Pillow \
 Django-1.5.9.tar.gz:Django \
 Djblets-0.6.14.tar.gz:Djblets