The following are general guidelines to getting Giterary running. These instructions are biased towards the Linux side of things, but there is no reason an enterprising individual couldn’t get them running on Mac OS or Windows. They also assume you have a basic working knowledge of the components of the Internet, how to configure your systems to run “services” or “daemons,” or a certain quantity of patience and a willingness to Google something if you don’t understand it.
Requirements
A computer capable of running PHP 5.3 or greater and git 1.7.X.X or greater.
These are widely available from many different Linux distribution packaging mechanisms (Debian and Ubuntu’s apt-get, Centos and Fedora’s yum, etc.) Binary packages are also available from their respective sites for all operating systems.
Web server software that supports running PHP
Numerous pieces of web server software support the use of PHP. Many LAMP setups are pre-configured simply for this ("Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP").
- Apache (Available on Linux, Mac OS, and Windows)
- Nginx (Available on Linux, Windows, probably Mac OS)
- IIS (Windows) (Available on Windows)
While installing these HTTP servers you should ensure that the steps taken to enable PHP have been taken before proceeding. Those steps are beyond the scope of this document, but are well documented elsewhere. There are also numerous “appliance” virutal machines available on the web, pre-configured to support your flavor of HTTP server. If you are installing to “the cloud,” this may be an easier route than configuring your own HTTP server (though, we would invite you to learn about such things, as they are valuable things to be knowledgeable about).
OPTIONAL: An SSH server program (if you are doing git-over-SSH synchronization, which is recommended)
git has the ability to push and pull from multiple sources, and using multiple network protocols. The most reliable and conventionally accepted appears to be SSH, which provides encryption as well as authentication. If you plan on “synchronizing” another computer with your Giterary instance, you will want to have an SSH server or git-capable equivalent to provide access to your Giterary repository.
- OpenSSH is widely supported on Linux, Mac OS, and on Windows.
OPTIONAL: A git client
It is highly recommended that you keep a git client handy, just in case you don’t like how Giterary does something, or that you have to do something Giterary doesn’t. These tools let you interact with your Giterary repository in lots of nice ways. I recommend the following:
- TortoiseGit (for Windows)
- SourceTree (for MacOS)
Latest Version
Grab the latest version of Giterary from:
- HTTP Download TODO
- git clone TODO
Set upVerify PHP versus Your Web Server
Every web server has a directory into which you can put files, and it will serve those files. Much of the configuration headachefiles, for web servers is getting the names, access rules, and pointers to the right directories into place. We leave it up to the reader to maintain their own security, but take heed when we say that the intent of a web server is to put things on the Internet. Be sure that you check to see if things are exposed that should not be (for instance, if you Giterary instance is exposed to whoever happens to be sitting next to your at the airport terminal).better or for worse.
In orderMuch of the configuration headache for web servers is getting the names, access rules, and pointers to testthe right directories into place. We leave it up to the reader to maintain their own security, but take heed when we say that the intent of a web server is to put things on the Internet. Be sure that you check to see if things are exposed that should not be (for instance, if you Giterary instance is exposed to whoever happens to be sitting next to your at the airport terminal). Most important to establishing this “hosted directory” is ensuring that PHP is configured correctly. Within your “hosted” directory, place a file called test.php, which has only these contents.
<? phpinfo(); ?>
Afterwards, using your web browser, browse to a URL referencing your host and the test.php file, for instance: http://localhost/test.php (if you plan to be accessing Giterary from only your own machine) http://myserver/test.php (if you are installing to a separate server) http://myserver/giterary/test.php (if you are installing Giterary to a place other than the “document root,” in Apache terms.) This page should contain an output from the phpinfo function that lists all of the compilation, configuration, and dependency information for your PHP installation. It will be purple. If this is running successfully, then you have a working PHP configuration for your web server. Good job! ## Verify Git Is Working
Create Giterary directories
Giterary needs a few directories to run:
- The directory of the git repository.
- The directory for Giterary to store “cache” information to make the application speedier.
- The directory for Giterary to store “session” information that allows you to be logged in to the application.