DreamFactory is a powerful open-source REST API backend that can help you build modern applications. In this guide, we'll walk you through the steps to install DreamFactory on Manjaro.
Before we proceed, you need to ensure you have the following requirements installed:
You can download DreamFactory from the official website https://www.dreamfactory.com/. Download the latest version of DreamFactory and save it to your preferred directory.
Before we start the installation process, let's install the required dependencies.
sudo pacman -S php php-gd php-intl php-mbstring php-xml mariadb
Extract the downloaded DreamFactory zip file to your preferred directory. You can use any directory you want.
unzip dreamfactory-*.zip -d /var/www/html/dreamfactory
Next, navigate to the DreamFactory directory and run the following command to install the required dependencies.
cd /var/www/html/dreamfactory
./install.sh
The installation script will guide you through the installation process. You need to provide the information for the following:
Once you have provided all the necessary information, the installation script will complete the installation.
You need to set the correct permissions for the DreamFactory directories and files.
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/dreamfactory
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/dreamfactory
Finally, you need to configure your web server to serve the DreamFactory application.
For Apache, create a new virtual host configuration file and add the following configuration.
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName dreamfactory.example.com
ServerAlias www.dreamfactory.example.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/dreamfactory/public
DirectoryIndex index.php
<Directory /var/www/html/dreamfactory/public>
Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks +MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
Require all granted
<IfModule php7_module>
php_admin_flag engine on
php_admin_flag display_errors off
php_admin_value max_execution_time 600
php_admin_value upload_max_filesize 100M
php_admin_value post_max_size 100M
php_admin_value max_input_time 600
php_admin_value memory_limit 256M
php_admin_value open_basedir none
php_admin_value session.save_path "/tmp"
</IfModule>
</Directory>
ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/dreamfactory_error.log
CustomLog /var/log/httpd/dreamfactory_access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
For Nginx, create a new server configuration file and add the following configuration.
server {
listen 80;
server_name dreamfactory.example.com;
root /var/www/html/dreamfactory/public;
index index.php;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
error_log /var/log/nginx/dreamfactory_error.log;
access_log /var/log/nginx/dreamfactory_access.log;
}
After you have saved the configuration file, restart your web server for the changes to take effect.
sudo systemctl restart apache2
or
sudo systemctl restart nginx
In this tutorial, we have installed DreamFactory on Manjaro and configured it to work with Apache or Nginx. You can now use DreamFactory to build powerful applications with ease.
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