How to Install Phabricator on macOS

Phabricator is a powerful open-source project management software suite that provides a wide variety of tools for managing tasks, code, and collaboration. In this tutorial, we'll go through the steps required to install Phabricator on macOS.

Prerequisites

Before you begin, ensure that you have the following:

• A macOS machine with administrative privileges.
• Homebrew package manager installed. If you don't have it installed, you can easily install it with the following command:

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

Installation Steps

1. Open a terminal window on your macOS machine.

2. Install the required dependencies by running the following command:

brew install git php@7.2 mysql

3. Install the Apache web server with PHP support by running the following command:

brew install httpd

4. Set up the Apache webserver by copying the default configuration files:

sudo cp /usr/local/etc/httpd/httpd.conf /usr/local/etc/httpd/httpd.conf.original
sudo cp /usr/local/etc/httpd/extra/httpd-ssl.conf /usr/local/etc/httpd/extra/httpd-ssl.conf.original

5. Edit the Apache configuration files to allow PHP support by uncommenting the following lines in the httpd.conf file:

LoadModule php7_module /usr/local/opt/php@7.2/lib/httpd/modules/libphp7.so

6. Within the same httpd.conf file, replace all occurrences of /usr/local/var/www/htdocs with /usr/local/var/www:

DocumentRoot "/usr/local/var/www"
<Directory "/usr/local/var/www">
...

7. Copy the Phabricator source code to the webserver's document root by running the following command:

sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/var/www/phabricator
sudo git clone https://github.com/phacility/phabricator.git /usr/local/var/www/phabricator

8. Set up the Phabricator configuration file by running the following command:

sudo cp /usr/local/var/www/phabricator/conf/local/local.json.example /usr/local/var/www/phabricator/conf/local/local.json

9. Edit the local.json file to customize the configuration, including MySQL settings and email settings.

10. Open a web browser and navigate to http://localhost. This should launch the Phabricator web installer. Follow the instructions to complete the installation process.

11. Once installation is complete, Phabricator should be available at http://localhost/phabricator.

Congratulations! You've successfully installed Phabricator on your macOS machine. You can now use this powerful tool to manage your projects, tasks, code, and collaboration.

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