Ubuntu installation questions
Posted: 16 Feb 2021, 05:43
I have set up X3 on a DigitalOcean instance under Ubuntu 20, PHP 7.4.
I have fixed several things and the site still seems to run ok, but am stuck on these warnings in the diagnostics page:
I found that the installation requirements in the documentation were incomplete and perhaps I have missed another thing or two. Beyond the requirements in the documentation ("Standard PHP extensions, including [color=var(--primary-color)]GD[/color] (image resizing) and [color=var(--primary-color)]Mcrypt[/color] (login encryption)") I found that I needed to:
I have fixed several things and the site still seems to run ok, but am stuck on these warnings in the diagnostics page:
- Mod Headers: Undetectable
- Default Timezone: Not specified
I found that the installation requirements in the documentation were incomplete and perhaps I have missed another thing or two. Beyond the requirements in the documentation ("Standard PHP extensions, including [color=var(--primary-color)]GD[/color] (image resizing) and [color=var(--primary-color)]Mcrypt[/color] (login encryption)") I found that I needed to:
- install php7.4-mbstring (without this I just got a spinning circle on the main page)
- enable mod_rewrite (AllowOverride All in Apache; a2enmod rewrite)
- I also added php-7.4-curl and php-zip for installation and testing