soulroll/silverstripe-php-requirements

Just a list of things needed to make SilverStripe work on your local enviroment

MIT

Add the main PPA for PHP repository

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php

Silverstripe PHP 5.6 requirements

sudo apt-get install php5.6-xml
sudo apt-get install php5.6-soap
sudo apt-get install php5.6-xdebug
sudo apt-get install php5.6-mbstring
sudo apt-get install php5.6-mysql
sudo apt-get install php5.6-tidy
sudo apt-get install php5.6-curl
sudo apt-get install php5.6-gd
sudo apt-get install php5.6-intl
sudo apt-get install php5.6-mcrypt

Silverstripe PHP 7 requirements

sudo apt-get install php7.0-intl
sudo apt-get install php7.0-mbstring
sudo apt-get install php7.0-mysql
sudo apt-get install php7.0-xml
sudo apt-get install php7.0-curl
sudo apt-get install php7.0-gd
sudo apt-get install php7.0-tidy
sudo apt-get install php7.0-mcrypt

Silverstripe PHP 7.1 requirements

sudo apt-get install php7.1-intl
sudo apt-get install php7.1-mbstring
sudo apt-get install php7.1-mysql
sudo apt-get install php7.1-xml
sudo apt-get install php7.1-curl
sudo apt-get install php7.1-gd
sudo apt-get install php7.1-tidy
sudo apt-get install php7.1-mcrypt

Switching PHP versions

From php5.6 to php7.0:

Apache

sudo a2dismod php5.6
sudo a2enmod php7.0
sudo service apache2 restart

CLI

sudo update-alternatives --set php /usr/bin/php7.0

From php7.0 to php5.6:

Apache

sudo a2dismod php7.0
sudo a2enmod php5.6
sudo service apache2 restart

CLI

sudo update-alternatives --set php /usr/bin/php5.6

Set timezone in php.ini

date.timezone = 'Pacific/Auckland'

Set silverstripe folder permissions

sudo chown {username}:www-data . -R

Enabling mod rewrite

sudo a2enmod rewrite

SilverStripe .env file

SS_DATABASE_CLASS="MySQLDatabase"
SS_DATABASE_SERVER="localhost"
SS_DATABASE_USERNAME="root"
SS_DATABASE_PASSWORD="password"
SS_DATABASE_CHOOSE_NAME="true"
SS_ENVIRONMENT_TYPE="dev"
SS_DEFAULT_ADMIN_USERNAME="admin"
SS_DEFAULT_ADMIN_PASSWORD="password"

Copying SSH Key

Type and copy output: cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub