Phproject is an open-source project management tool that is designed to make managing tasks, projects, and team collaboration more efficient. In this tutorial, we will be installing Phproject on Linux Mint.
Before we install Phproject, we need to make sure that our system has the following requirements:
The first step is to download the Phproject from the official website. Open your web browser and go to the following URL:
https://www.phproject.org/
Once the web page opens, click on the "Download" button located at the top of the page. From there, you will be redirected to the GitHub page where you can download the latest version of Phproject.
Select the ".zip" package and then click on the "Download" button. Save the file in your preferred location.
Next, we need to extract the downloaded file in the document root of the Apache web server. The document root is the directory where the web pages of our website are stored.
Open the terminal by pressing Ctrl + Alt + T keys and navigate to the directory where the zip file is downloaded, and run the following command:
$ unzip phproject-[version].zip -d /var/www/html/
Replace the [version] with the downloaded version of Phproject.
Now, we need to create a new database for Phproject. To create a database, we need to log in to the MySQL or MariaDB server, create a new database, and create a new user with the necessary privileges to access that database.
Open the MySQL prompt by running the following command:
$ mysql -u root -p
Replace root with your MySQL username.
Enter your password to log in to the MySQL prompt.
Create a new database by running the following command:
CREATE DATABASE phprojectdb;
Create a new user and grant privileges to access that database by running the following command:
CREATE USER 'phprojectuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON phprojectdb.* TO 'phprojectuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password' WITH GRANT OPTION;
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Replace 'password' with your own password.
Next, we need to configure Phproject by creating a new configuration file.
Copy the config.sample.php file to a new file named config.php by running the following command:
$ cd /var/www/html/
$ cp config.sample.php config.php
Open the config.php file in a text editor and replace the following settings with your own:
define('DB_TYPE', 'mysql');
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');
define('DB_PORT', 3306);
define('DB_NAME', 'phprojectdb');
define('DB_USER', 'phprojectuser');
define('DB_PASS', 'password');
define('PATH_ROOT', '/var/www/html/');
define('PATH_LIB', '/var/www/html/lib/');
Save and close the file.
The last step is to set the appropriate permissions to the directories and files of Phproject.
Navigate to the directory where Phproject is extracted and run the following command:
$ cd /var/www/html/phproject-[version]
$ chmod -R 755 ./public ./var
$ chmod 777 ./config.php
Replace [version] with the downloaded version of Phproject.
Now, we are ready to access Phproject from the web browser. Open your web browser and go to the following URL:
http://localhost/phproject-[version]/public/
Replace [version] with the downloaded version of Phproject.
You should see the Phproject login screen. Enter the username and password you specified during the installation.
Congratulations! You have now successfully installed and configured Phproject on Linux Mint.
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