installurl(5)

installurl5

Openbsd mirror server location

Overview

The /etc/installurl file contains a line specifying an OpenBSD mirror server URL, such as

https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD

It is created by the installer script during installations and upgrades.

Empty lines and lines beginning with ‘#’ in the file are ignored. If multiple valid lines are present the last line is used.

Files

/etc/installurl

Releases

21 releases since OpenBSD 6.1; the text changed 4 times.

  1. 6.1
  2. 6.2–6.3
  3. 6.4–6.5
  4. 6.6–7.9
  5. 8.0

From man 8.0-current-20261101 in OpenBSD 8.0-current (2026-11-01). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.