Step 1 – Dependencies Installation

Prerequisite: Working version of  Ubuntu 20.04.

First, you should install Apache, PHP, its dependencies, and the database.

• Typically, you log in as a user "root". If not, become "root" with sudo -s
• Load new system updates:

apt-get update

• Update the system with

apt-get upgrade

These packages may be missing. So try to install them:

apt install ubuntu-server

apt install language-pack-en

apt install sudo

apt install lsb-core

apt install rsyslog

Apache2

apt-get install apache2 apache2-doc libapache2-mod-xsendfile

Activate some Apache modules:

a2enmod rewrite dav_fs dav expires headers proxy socache_shmcb ssl vhost_alias dav ssl http2 mod_authnz_ldap ldap

PHP 7.4

apt install php7.4 php7.4-gd php7.4-xsl php7.4-ldap php7.4-xmlrpc php7.4-dev php7.4-curl php7.4-cli php7.4-common php7.4-soap php7.4-mbstring php7.4-intl php7.4-xml libapache2-mod-php7.4 php7.4-zip php-apcu php7.4-imagick php7.4-bcmath php7.4-gmp

phpenmod opcache

apt install php7.4-curl php7.4-json php7.4-mysql php7.4-opcache php7.4-readline libapache2-mod-php7.4

MariaDB

To install the database, we will use the instructions here: https://mariadb.com/kb/en/installing-mariadb-deb-files/

Here are the steps:

curl -sS https://downloads.mariadb.com/MariaDB/mariadb_repo_setup | sudo bash

apt-get install mariadb-server galera-4 mariadb-client libmariadb3 mariadb-backup mariadb-common

mysql_secure_installation

• Switch to unix_socket authentication [Y/n] Y
• Change the root password? [Y/n] Y
• Remove anonymous users? [Y/n] Y
• Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n] Y
• Remove the test database and access it? [Y/n] Y
• Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n] Y

apt install zip git htop wget curl htmldoc mailutils imagemagick ffmpeg openjdk-11-jre python phantomjs abiword libreoffice mailutils davfs2 nano memcached php-memcached composer nmon clamav ghostscript-x wkhtmltopdf php-tcpdf xvfb

• Answer for webdav-question: yes

Node

The first step is to check if node or npm is already installed.

node --version

nodejs --version

npm --version

To install it, run the following commands:

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_14.x | sudo -E bash -

(Please do not go higher than node version 14 because the chat does not support it)

apt-get install -y nodejs

export NODE_ENV=production

After the installation, check the versions:

• Check Node:

node --version

• Check NPM:

npm --version

• Check the nodeapath and keep the result in mind:

whereis node 

– this could give the green nodepath: node: /home/ilias/local/bin/node or /usr/local/bin/node