Gibbon is a web-based school management system that helps educational institutions manage their day-to-day operations. In this tutorial, we will walk you through the process of installing Gibbon on OpenSUSE Latest.
Before we begin, it is important to note that this tutorial assumes you have a working web server, PHP and MySQL installed on your OpenSUSE Latest machine. If you do not have any of these components installed, you will need to install them before proceeding.
The first step is to download the latest version of Gibbon from the official Gibbon website. Once you have downloaded the file, extract it to your desktop.
Once you have extracted the files to your desktop, you will need to move them to your web server root directory. The web server root directory is usually located at /srv/www/htdocs/. To move the files, open a terminal window and run the following command:
sudo mv ~/Downloads/gibbon-X.X.X/ /srv/www/htdocs/
Replace X.X.X with the version number that you downloaded.
Next, we need to create a new database and user for Gibbon. To do this, open a terminal window and run the following command:
sudo mysql -uroot -p
This will open the MySQL command prompt. Once here, run the following commands:
CREATE DATABASE gibbon;
CREATE USER 'gibbon'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON gibbon.* TO 'gibbon'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;
Replace 'password' with something more secure.
Now we need to configure Gibbon settings. To do this, navigate to the config directory located at /srv/www/htdocs/gibbon/config/. Rename the config.php.example file to config.php, and open it with a text editor.
Inside the config.php file, make the following changes:
define('MYSQL_DB', 'gibbon');
define('MYSQL_USER', 'gibbon');
define('MYSQL_PASSWORD', 'password');
Using the same password that you chose earlier.
We need to set the correct file permissions to the Gibbon directory. To do this, open a terminal window and run the following command:
sudo chown -R apache:apache /srv/www/htdocs/gibbon
sudo chmod -R 755 /srv/www/htdocs/gibbon
Finally, we are ready to access Gibbon in your web browser. Navigate to http://localhost/gibbon/ and follow the on-screen instructions to finish the installation process.
Congratulations, you have successfully installed Gibbon on OpenSUSE Latest!
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