VbzCart/docs/install

Prerequisites: Linux, PHP 7, MySQL-workalike, Apache.

This page will eventually need to include a lot more information, but for now the basic setup procedure is:

• Clone the VbzCart Git repository at [git@gitlab.com:woozalia/VbzCart.git into a folder of your choice, which we'll call <vbz-base>.
• Copy the <vbz-base>/config folder to a location outside of <vbz-base>.
  • We'll call this new location <local-config>.
  • My standard location for this is /home/vbz/site/config/vbzcart
• Rename the <local-config>/examples folder to <local-config>/local.
• Modify each file to match your local environment, according to instructions in each file.
• Optional: modify files in <local-config>/portable as needed.
• Install Ferreteria
• Set up database and tables (instructions to be written)
• Link or copy the <local-config>/portable/index.php file to your public web folder.
• Link or copy the <vbz-base>/static folder to your public web folder.
• Create the public web ufiles folder

Woozle's setup

Some specifics of how I usually set things up these days, giving examples from the dev instance I'm setting up as I type this (see User:Woozle/setups/vdomain for definitions):

Preparation

You'll need to have <$USER>'s account set up with an ssh key that can access GitLab. At least, I think that's the requirement. It might be more GitLab-project-specific.

Steps

1. Install Ferreteria (you can actually do this at any point, but it may be easier to do it first).

2. Run these commands in a terminal on your web server (you can skip mkdir wherever the folder already exists):

• cd <$HOME>
• su <$USER>
• mkdir site
• cd site
• mkdir git
• git clone git@gitlab.com:woozalia/VbzCart.git
• cd ..
• mkdir config
• cd config
• cp -R ../git/VbzCart/config vbzcart
• mv vbzcart/examples vbzcart/local
• ln -rs vbzcart/local/index.php ~/public_html/
• ln -rs vbzcart/local/.htaccess ~/public_html/
• cd ..
• ln -rs git/VbzCart/static ~/public_html/static
• mkdir ufiles
• cd ufiles
• mkdir pub
• ln -rs pub ~/public_html/ufiles

3. Modify the files in vbzcart/local as needed to match your local environment. (If you use the same structure I'm using here, index.php will not need modification.) This will require having a database set up so you can get the appropriate connection credentials to put in creds.php.

At this point, I think you should be able to point a browser at the domain and get something, even if it's only errors that you'll need to look at in order to figure out what's left to configure.

TODO: configure .htaccess to properly intercept virtual URLs