In this tutorial, we will guide you through the steps to install Monica on the latest version of FreeBSD. Monica is a personal relationship manager that helps you track your interactions, notes and other information about the people in your life.
Before we begin, make sure you have root or sudo access to your FreeBSD system.
The first step is to ensure that your package manager is up to date. You can update it using the following command:
sudo pkg update
Next, we need to install some dependencies that Monica requires to run. You can do this by running the following command:
sudo pkg install php74 php74-mysqlnd php74-pdo php74-json php74-filter php74-session php74-mbstring php74-gd php74-openssl git bash
Composer is a dependency manager for PHP. We will use it to install Monica. You can install it by running the following command:
sudo pkg install composer
We will now clone the Monica repository from GitHub. You can do this using the following command:
git clone https://github.com/monicahq/monica.git
Run the following commands to install and setup Monica:
cd monica/
composer install
cp .env.example .env
php artisan key:generate
Open the .env file in a text editor and configure the database settings:
DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=monica
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=your-secret-password
Make sure to replace the placeholder values with your own database settings.
Create the database by running the following command:
mysql -u root -p
CREATE DATABASE monica;
Run the following command to migrate the database:
php artisan migrate
Finally, run the following command to start the server:
php artisan serve
By default, the server will run on http://127.0.0.1:8000/.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Monica on FreeBSD. You can now use it to keep track of your personal relationships.
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