How to Install PhpSysInfo on Linux Mint

PhpSysInfo is a PHP-based system information script that displays information about your Linux machine. This tutorial will show you how to install PhpSysInfo on Linux Mint.

Prerequisites

Before installing PhpSysInfo, ensure that you have the following:

• Access to a Linux Mint system
• Sudo access to the system
• PHP installed on the system
• Web server installed on the system (Apache or Nginx)

Installation Steps

1. Update the system packages:

sudo apt update

2. Install necessary packages:

sudo apt install git -y
sudo apt install apache2 -y
sudo apt install php php-cli php-common php-mbstring php-gd php-json php-xml php-mysql php-zip php-curl -y

3. Clone the latest version of PhpSysInfo from Github into /var/www/html/:

sudo git clone https://github.com/phpsysinfo/phpsysinfo.git /var/www/html/phpsysinfo

4. Change the ownership of the directory to the web server user:

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/phpsysinfo

5. Navigate to the phpsysinfo directory:

cd /var/www/html/phpsysinfo

6. Rename phpsysinfo.ini.new to phpsysinfo.ini:

mv phpsysinfo.ini.new phpsysinfo.ini

7. Open phpsysinfo.ini and make the following changes:

log_errors = Off
; Set your timezone
date.timezone = Europe/London
; Uncomment following line to hide the version number
; display_version_number = Off

8. Restart Apache:

sudo systemctl restart apache2

9. Open a web browser and go to http://localhost/phpsysinfo/. You should see the PhpSysInfo dashboard.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, you have learned how to install PhpSysInfo on Linux Mint. You can use PhpSysInfo to monitor your Linux system and obtain useful information about your system's configuration.

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