This tutorial will guide you through the process of installing tasks.php on Debian Latest. Tasks.php is a simple task management system that allows you to keep track of tasks, deadlines and notes.
Before proceeding with the installation, update the system to ensure that all the installed packages are up-to-date:
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
Next, you need to install Git, Apache, MySQL, and PHP:
sudo apt install git apache2 mysql-server php7.4 libapache2-mod-php7.4 php7.4-mysql php7.4-gd php7.4-curl php7.4-cli
If you get prompted to create a MySQL root password during the installation, create one that is strong and easy to remember.
Open the Apache configuration file and disable the default site:
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf
Comment out the following lines by prepending them with #:
# DocumentRoot /var/www/html
# <Directory /var/www/html>
# Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
# AllowOverride None
# Order allow,deny
# allow from all
# </Directory>
Save the file and exit.
Create a new configuration file for tasks.php:
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/tasksphp.conf
Add the following lines to the file:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName your_domain_name_or_IP_address
DocumentRoot /var/www/tasksphp
<Directory /var/www/tasksphp>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Save the file and exit.
Enable the new site and disable the default one:
sudo a2ensite tasksphp.conf
sudo a2dissite 000-default.conf
Restart Apache for the changes to take effect:
sudo systemctl restart apache2
Create a new directory for tasks.php:
sudo mkdir /var/www/tasksphp
Change the ownership of the directory to the Apache user and group:
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/tasksphp
Clone the tasks.php repository from GitHub:
cd /var/www/tasksphp
sudo git clone https://github.com/lgg-archive/tasks.php.git .
Copy the config/config-dist.php file to config/config.php:
cp config/config-dist.php config/config.php
Edit the config/config.php file to match your MySQL credentials and other settings:
$config['db_host'] = 'localhost';
$config['db_name'] = 'tasksphp';
$config['db_username'] = 'your_mysql_username';
$config['db_password'] = 'your_mysql_password';
$config['session_prefix'] = 'tasksphp_';
Save the file and exit.
Log in to the MySQL server:
sudo mysql -u root -p
Create a new database and user, and give the user permission to access the database:
CREATE DATABASE tasksphp;
CREATE USER 'tasksphp'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'your_mysql_password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON tasksphp.* TO 'tasksphp'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
exit;
Open the web browser and navigate to http://your_domain_name_or_IP_address. You should see the tasks.php installation page.
Follow the instructions on the page to install the application. When prompted for database settings, enter the credentials you configured in Step 5, and the name of the database you created in Step 6.
When the installation is complete, delete the install/ directory:
rm -rf install
In this tutorial, you learned how to install tasks.php, a simple task management system, on Debian Latest. You installed the required dependencies, configured Apache, downloaded the application, configured the settings, created a database, and installed tasks.php.
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