farmOS is a comprehensive management system designed for agricultural businesses to digitally track their farm assets, areas, crops, livestock, and equipment. The installation method for farmOS on Debian Linux is straightforward, requiring only a few steps to be executed. In this tutorial, you will discover how to install farmOS on Debian Latest.
Before installing the farmOS package on Debian Linux, you need to ensure that some prerequisites are installed. These include Apache, MariaDB, PHP, and other necessary modules.
Enter the commands below to update your system's package database and install the necessary dependencies.
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y apache2 php php-curl php-gd php-xml php-mysql mariadb-server
Next, download the farmOS package from the official website. Consider checking the latest release and downloading the appropriate version for your Linux system.
wget https://github.com/farmOS/farmOS/releases/download/7.x-1.0-rc6/farmOS-7.x-1.0-rc6.tar.gz
Once the download is complete, extract the tar archive, and move the installation files into your Apache server's document root directory.
tar -zxvf farmOS-7.x-1.0-rc6.tar.gz
sudo mv farmOS-7.x-1.0-rc6 /var/www/html/farmOS
Now we need to configure the MariaDB server to create a new database for farmOS.
Run the following command to access the MariaDB client in the terminal:
sudo mysql -u root -p
Create a new database for farmOS with the following command, replacing the "password" with the preferred password:
CREATE DATABASE drupal_farmos_db;
CREATE USER 'farmos'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON drupal_farmos_db.* TO 'farmos'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
exit;
Copy the default farmOS settings files and modify them to fit your configuration.
cp /var/www/html/farmOS/sites/default/default.settings.php /var/www/html/farmOS/sites/default/settings.php
cp /var/www/html/farmOS/sites/default/default.services.yml /var/www/html/farmOS/sites/default/services.yml
Open the settings.php file in your favorite text editor and fill the database credentials.
$databases = [
'default' => [
'default' => [
'database' => 'drupal_farmos_db',
'username' => 'farmos',
'password' => 'password',
'prefix' => '',
'host' => 'localhost',
'port' => '3306',
'namespace'=> 'Drupal\\Core\\Database\\Driver\\mysql',
'driver' => 'mysql',
],
],
];
We need to give the web server the right permissions to read and write to the files.
sudo chmod 755 /var/www/html/farmOS/sites/default
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/farmOS
Open your web browser and enter the URL http://<server IP address>/farmOS/install.php, where <server IP address> is the IP address of your Debian Linux server. The installation process should now begin.
Complete the installation by providing the necessary information, including administrator credentials and timezone.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed farmOS on Debian Linux. You can now start using the farmOS administrative interface to manage your farm's assets, areas, crops, and livestock.
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