Installing Laconica

Using:

• OS: $ lsb_release -a
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10
Codename: intrepid

• php 5.2.6
• mysql server 5.0.67-0ubuntu6

Added pre-requisities php libraries:

• sudo apt-get install php5-cli
• sudo apt-get install php5-curl
• sudo apt-get install php5-mysql
• sudo apt-get install php5-gd
• sudo apt-get install php-gettext
• Check mbstring is installed: php -i | grep -i mbstring
  If you get some output, you should be OK.
• Check xmlwriter is installed: php -i | grep -i xmlwriter
  If you get some output, you should be OK.

Added nice to haves:

• sudo apt-get install php5-memcache
• sudo apt-get install php-pear
• sudo apt-get install php5-dev
• sudo pecl install mailparse
• Not sure whether you need this, but did it anyway as seemed logical at the time: sudo vim /etc/php5/conf.d/mailparse.ini
  and add:
# manual configuration for php mailparse module
# yourInitials 16-mar-09
extension=mailparse.so

• Install Sphinx Server. Not sure how/when we’ll config this, but it’s as well to get it in before we’re asked for it:
  • sudo apt get install libmysqlclient15-dev
  • wget http://sphinxsearch.com/downloads/sphinx-0.9.8.1.tar.gz
  • tar -xvf sphinx-0.9.8.1.tar.gz
  • cd sphinx-0.9.8.1/
  • ./configure
  • make
  • sudo make install
  • Check it’s in OK: search
    You should see output starting with: Sphinx 0.9.8.1-release
• sudo apt-get install php5-xcache

I suggest you also install phpMyAdmin for looking after the mysql databases if you haven’t already. I’m certainly not hard enough to do all the sql work from the command-line

Just in case restart Apache:

• sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

And now, we begin. Rather marvellously Mr Prodromou has just released a new laconia update, version 0.7.2.1, which includes a “first version of a web-based installer”. I’m following the instructions from the README file in the download. Here goes…. Just followed the instructions and I have a functioning install! Mwah-ha. Mwah-ha! Mwah-ha-ha-ha-haaaaaa! I have the power. etc.

Things not working: Fancy URLs. But I’ll get ’round to that.

UPDATE: run sudo a2enmod rewrite to enable the apache rewrite engine so you can use fancy urls and then follow the instructions in the README for .htaccess.