How to Install Phabricator on Fedora Server Latest

Introduction

Phabricator is a suite of web-based tools for software engineering. It includes features such as code review, task management, and source code hosting. In this tutorial, we are going to describe how to install Phabricator on Fedora Server Latest.

Prerequisites

• A Fedora Server Latest instance with a non-root user with sudo privileges.
• Apache web server installed and running.
• PHP version 7.3 or greater installed and configured on the server.
• MySQL or MariaDB database installed on the server.

Step 1: Install Required Dependencies

Before installing Phabricator, we need to install some required dependencies. Open your terminal and run the following command to update the package information:

sudo dnf update

Install the required dependencies with the following command:

sudo dnf install git httpd mariadb-server mariadb php php-mysqlnd php-curl php-dom php-gd php-imap php-intl php-mbstring php-pdo php-pecl-apcu php-pecl-memcache php-process php-xml php-json php-cli

Step 2: Set up MySQL Database

Phabricator requires a MySQL or MariaDB database. We will now create a new MySQL database for Phabricator.

Open your MySQL shell and log in as a root user:

sudo mysql -u root -p 

Enter your MySQL root password when prompted.

Then, create a new database for Phabricator with the following commands:

CREATE DATABASE phabricator;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON phabricator.* TO 'phabricator'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'ph_password';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

Replace ph_password with a strong password of your choice. Make sure to remember this password as you will need it later.

Step 3: Install and Configure Phabricator

We will now clone the Phabricator repository and configure it. Open your terminal and run the following commands:

sudo mkdir /var/www/phabricator
sudo chown apache:apache /var/www/phabricator

cd /var/www/phabricator
sudo git clone https://github.com/phacility/phabricator.git
sudo chmod -R 777 /var/www/phabricator/phabricator/webroot/files

Next, we need to create a configuration file for Phabricator. Run the following command to generate a new configuration file:

sudo cp /var/www/phabricator/phabricator/conf/local/local.json.sample /var/www/phabricator/phabricator/conf/local/local.json

Edit the file using your favorite text editor:

sudo nano /var/www/phabricator/phabricator/conf/local/local.json

Replace the text in <f1YOUR_PASSWORD_HEREf2> with the password you set up for the phabricator database user earlier.

{
    "mysql.host": "localhost",
    "mysql.port": 3306,
    "mysql.user": "phabricator",
    "mysql.pass": "<f1YOUR_PASSWORD_HEREf2>",
    "mysql.passfile": null,
    "mysql.charset": null,

    "phabricator.timezone" : "US/Pacific",
    "pygments.enabled": true,
    "storage.mysql-engine.max-size": "83886080",
    "storage.mysql-engine.max-delay": 86400,
    "storage.local-disk.path": "/var/tmp/phd/"
}

Save and close the file.

Create a new Apache virtual host configuration file for Phabricator with the following command:

sudo nano /etc/httpd/conf.d/phabricator.conf

Add the following contents to the file:

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerName your_domain.com
        ServerAdmin webmaster@your_domain.com

        DocumentRoot /var/www/phabricator/phabricator/webroot
        RewriteEngine on
        RewriteRule ^/rsrc/(.*)     -                       [L,QSA]
        RewriteRule ^/favicon.ico  -                       [L,QSA]
        RewriteRule ^(.*)$          /index.php?__path__=$1  [B,L,QSA]

        <Directory /var/www/phabricator/phabricator/webroot>
                Require all granted
                AllowOverride All
        </Directory>

        ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/phabricator_error.log
        CustomLog /var/log/httpd/phabricator_access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

Make sure to replace your_domain.com with your actual domain name.

Save and close the file.

Restart the Apache web server with the following command:

sudo systemctl restart httpd

Step 4: Access Phabricator

You can now access Phabricator by visiting http://your_domain.com in your web browser.

You can log in to Phabricator with the following default credentials:

Username: admin
Password: password

We highly recommend changing the default password after logging in.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed and configured Phabricator on your Fedora Server Latest.

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