DocPHT is a highly customizable, lightweight and powerful documentation generator that allows you to create online documentation with ease. In this tutorial, we will go through the process of installing DocPHT on Clear Linux Latest.
Before we can install DocPHT, we need to ensure that our Clear Linux Latest system has the following installed:
To install the required packages, we need to first update the package repository index by running the following command:
sudo swupd update
Next, we install the required packages using the following command:
sudo swupd bundle-add php-basic php-xml apache mariadb-client
This will install Apache web server, PHP and MariaDB client libraries.
Next, let us download DocPHT from the official website. To do this, we will use wget command.
wget https://github.com/romainneutron/DocPHT/archive/refs/tags/v0.50.0.tar.gz
We need to install MariaDB, create a database and grant privileges to a user. To install MariaDB, we run the following command:
sudo swupd bundle-add mariadb
Once installed, we log in to the MySQL server and create a new database:
mysql -u root -p
CREATE DATABASE docpht;
CREATE USER 'docpht'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON docpht.* TO 'docpht'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Make sure to replace the password with a strong password of your choice.
We now need to configure Apache to serve DocPHT. This involves creating a new Virtual Host configuration file.
sudo vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/docpht.conf
And add the following configuration:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName docpht.local
DocumentRoot /var/www/docpht
ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/docpht_error.log
CustomLog /var/log/httpd/docpht_access.log combined
<Directory /var/www/docpht>
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
We need to extract the downloaded DocPHT archive to Apache's default DocumentRoot. To do this, we will use the following command:
sudo tar -xvf v0.50.0.tar.gz -C /var/www/
sudo mv /var/www/DocPHT-0.50.0 /var/www/docpht
To configure DocPHT, we need to copy the config/config.php.dist file to config/config.php and edit it to adjust the database settings.
cd /var/www/docpht
cp config/config.php.dist config/config.php
Edit the config/config.php file with your favorite editor and modify the following settings:
$CONFIG['db_type'] = 'mysql'; // or 'mariadb'
$CONFIG['db_host'] = 'localhost';
$CONFIG['db_port'] = 3306; // or 3307
$CONFIG['db_name'] = 'docpht';
$CONFIG['db_user'] = 'docpht';
$CONFIG['db_password'] = 'password'; // Replace with your database user password
Save and close the file.
To enable and start Apache and MariaDB services, run the following commands:
sudo systemctl enable --now httpd.service
sudo systemctl enable --now mariadb.service
To verify that the services are running, we can run the following commands:
sudo systemctl status httpd.service
sudo systemctl status mariadb.service
Finally, open your web browser and navigate to http://localhost or http://docpht.local to access DocPHT.
In this tutorial, we have covered the installation and configuration of DocPHT on Clear Linux Latest. We hope that you found this tutorial helpful and if you have any queries or suggestions, feel free to leave a comment below.
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