Installing Phabricator on Ubuntu 20.04

To install the required dependency packages

sudo apt-get -qq update sudo apt-get install \   git mysql-server apache2 libapache2-mod-php \   php php-mysql php-gd php-curl php-apcu php-cli php-json php-mbstring \   || failed 

To enable mod_rewrite in Apache

sudo a2enmod rewrite

To enable mod_php

sudo apt install libapache2-mod-php7.4
sudo a2enmod php7.4

To make changes in the default PHP config, need to open the php.ini file and set the following configs.

sudo vim /etc/php/7.4/apache2/php.ini
file_uploads = On
allow_url_fopen = On
short_open_tag = On
memory_limit = 256M
upload_max_filesize = 100M
max_execution_time = 360
date.timezone = asia/singapore

After saving the above configs, need to restart the Apache2 server to apply the configs.

sudo systemctl restart apache2.service

To test PHP 7.4 settings with Apache2, create a phpinfo.php file in Apache2 root directory.

sudo vim /var/www/html/phpinfo.php

Save the below content in the above created phpinfo.php file.

<?php phpinfo( ); ?>

To test Apache2, browse the below url.

http://localhost/phpinfo.php

Now, you can grab Phabricator and its dependencies from git.

git clone https://github.com/phacility/libphutil.git
git clone https://github.com/phacility/arcanist.git
git clone https://github.com/phacility/phabricator.git

Then, configure Phabricator mysql settings.

cd phabricator
./bin/config set mysql.host localhost
./bin/config set mysql.user root
./bin/config set mysql.pass <password>
./bin/storage upgrade --user root--password <password>

Now, we need to configure Apache2

To add configuration file with VirtualHost entry for Phabricator, create phabricator.conf file in the below location and add the below content in it.

sudo vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/phabricator.conf
<VirtualHost *>
  # Change this to the domain which points to your host.
  ServerName localhost.com

  # Change this to the path where you put 'phabricator' when you checked it
  # out from GitHub when following the Installation Guide.
  #
  # Make sure you include "/webroot" at the end!
  DocumentRoot /path/to/phabricator/webroot

  RewriteEngine on
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$          /index.php?__path__=$1  [B,L,QSA]
</VirtualHost>
<Directory "/path/to/phabricator/webroot">
  Require all granted
</Directory>

After configuring the VirtualHost as above, to enable it and restart Apache2.

sudo a2ensite phabricator.conf
sudo a2enmod rewrite
sudo systemctl restart apache2.service

To access Phabricator browse the below url.

http://127.0.0.1