Some notes on getting werc wercing on OpenBSD

For anyone else who happens to need to do this.

As of June 7th, 2026, this script mostly works on OpenBSD 7.9, despite only officially supporting 7.7 due to not being updated for a while.

The only issues I ran into are:

• The URL it downloads werc from is outdated
• It doesn't actually move the werc files into /var/www/werc (Probably related to the above point)

Fortunately, it still gets all of the hard stuff done. So, all you need to do is swap the old code.9front url with this one: https://werc.cat-v.org/download/werc-20260511.tgz

The file name will also be different once downloaded, so swap out the old filename with the new one (werc-20260511).

If you want HTTPS you can just go into /etc/httpd.conf, copy and paste the port 80 listen, and swap out port 80 with the usual port 443 stuff (Heres a good resource on that if you're unfamiliar, just ignore the HTTP redirect part to be kind to people on legacy browsers)

If you run into any error 500s, I recommend checking /var/www/logs/error.log