Tolgee is a translation management software that allows you to easily manage translations of your applications. In this tutorial, we will go through the steps to install Tolgee on Ubuntu Server Latest.
Before we begin, make sure that your system meets the following requirements:
Tolgee requires a web server to run, so we will start by installing Apache. Open a terminal and run the following command:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install apache2
Once installed, start the Apache service with the following command:
sudo systemctl start apache2
Tolgee is built with PHP, so we need to install PHP and some necessary PHP extensions. Run the following command to install PHP and some necessary modules:
sudo apt-get install php libapache2-mod-php php-mysql php-curl php-json php-mbstring php-gd php-xml
Tolgee requires a database to store its data, so we will install MySQL Server. Run the following command to install MySQL Server:
sudo apt-get install mysql-server
Once installed, open the MySQL shell with the following command:
sudo mysql
Create a new database and a new user with the following command:
CREATE DATABASE tolg_db;
CREATE USER 'tolg_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON tolg_db.* TO 'tolg_user'@'localhost';
Replace 'tolg_db', 'tolg_user', and 'password' with the database name, username and password of your choice.
Tolgee is built using Laravel, which requires Composer to install dependencies. Run the following command to install Composer:
sudo apt install composer
We will now download and install Tolgee. Run the following commands to navigate to the Apache root directory and clone Tolgee from its Github repository:
cd /var/www/html
sudo git clone https://github.com/tolgee/tolgee.git
Navigate to the Tolgee directory and run the following command to install dependencies:
cd tolgee
sudo composer install
Create a .env file from the example .env.example file:
sudo cp .env.example .env
Open the .env file and edit the following variables to match your MySQL database and user credentials:
DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=tolg_db
DB_USERNAME=tolg_user
DB_PASSWORD=password
Run the following command to generate an application key for Tolgee:
sudo php artisan key:generate
Run the following commands to grant the appropriate permissions to the storage and bootstrap directories:
sudo chmod -R 775 storage
sudo chmod -R 775 bootstrap/cache
Create a new virtual host configuration file:
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/tolgee.conf
Paste the following content into the file:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName example.com
ServerAlias www.example.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/tolgee/public
<Directory /var/www/html/tolgee>
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Replace "example.com" and "www.example.com" with your preferred domain name.
Enable the virtual host configuration file:
sudo a2ensite tolgee.conf
Restart the Apache service:
sudo systemctl restart apache2
Open your web browser and enter the URL of your Tolgee instance to run the application. For example, if you set "example.com" as the domain name in Step 9, you can visit "http://example.com" to access Tolgee.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed and configured Tolgee on your Ubuntu Server Latest.
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