Phorge is a free, open-source project management software that allows teams to collaborate on projects, manage tasks, and track bugs. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing Phorge on Ubuntu Server.
Before we start, you need to meet the following prerequisites:
Phorge PHP9 requires a few PHP extensions to be installed on the system. You can install them using the following command:
sudo apt-get install php-xml php-mbstring php-curl php-mysql php-gd php-json php-zip
We will download Phorge from its official website. Go to the following URL using your web browser:
https://we.phorge.it/
Click on the "Download Phorge" button to download the latest version of Phorge.
After the download is complete, extract the files to your webserver's document root directory. For example, if your webserver's document root is /var/www/html, you will extract the files to /var/www/html/phorge/.
To use Phorge, you need to create a MySQL database to store the data. Log in to your MySQL server using the following command:
mysql -u root -p
You will be prompted to enter your MySQL root user password. After entering the password, create a new database and user for Phorge:
CREATE DATABASE phorgedb;
CREATE USER 'phorge'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON phorgedb.* TO 'phorge'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Remember to replace 'password' with a strong MySQL user password of your choice.
Phorge stores its configuration details in the phabricator/config/local/local.json file. Make a copy of this file from the example file using the following command:
cp /var/www/html/phorge/phabricator/conf/local/local.json.example /var/www/html/phorge/phabricator/conf/local/local.json
Open this file in a text editor and update the following values:
"mysql.host": "localhost",
"mysql.user": "phorge",
"mysql.pass": "password",
"mysql.port": 3306,
"mysql.charset": "utf8",
"mysql.database": "phorgedb"
Replace 'password' with the MySQL user password you set while creating the database.
Now, we need to configure our web server to serve the Phorge files. If you are using Apache, create a new virtual host file using the following command:
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/phorge.conf
Add the following configuration:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName yourdomain.com
ServerAlias www.yourdomain.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/phorge/webroot/
<Directory /var/www/html/phorge/webroot/>
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/phorge-error.log
LogLevel warn
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/phorge-access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Remember to replace 'yourdomain.com' with your domain name.
If you are using Nginx, create a new server block file using the following command:
sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/phorge.conf
Add the following configuration:
server {
listen 80;
server_name yourdomain.com;
root /var/www/html/phorge/webroot;
index index.php;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
}
error_log /var/log/nginx/phorge-error.log;
access_log /var/log/nginx/phorge-access.log;
}
Remember to replace 'yourdomain.com' with your domain name, and 'php7.2-fpm.sock' with your current PHP version.
After saving the file, enable the virtual host by running the following command:
sudo a2ensite phorge.conf
sudo systemctl reload apache2 # For Apache
sudo systemctl reload nginx # For Nginx
Now you can access Phorge by going to your domain name in a web browser. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation.
In the "Configure Database" step, enter the following details:
Remember to replace 'password' with the MySQL user password you set while creating the database.
After completing the installation, Phorge will be ready to use!
In this tutorial, we covered the installation process of Phorge on Ubuntu Server. We also explained how to configure the web server and MySQL database. If you have any questions or feedback, feel free to leave a comment below.
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