How to Install Gibbon on Alpine Linux Latest

In this tutorial, we will walk you through the steps to install Gibbon, an open-source school management system, on Alpine Linux Latest.

Prerequisites

Before you begin, make sure you have the following:

A virtual or physical machine running Alpine Linux Latest
A user account with sudo privileges

Step 1 - Install Required Packages

Before installing Gibbon, we need to install some packages as Gibbon requires some dependencies to function properly. To install these packages, execute the following command in the terminal:

sudo apk add php7 php7-fpm php7-pdo php7-pdo_mysql php7-mbstring php7-tokenizer php7-xml php7-xmlwriter php7-zip php7-gd php7-curl php7-json php7-session php7-fileinfo nginx mysql mysql-client

This command installs PHP 7, Nginx, and MySQL along with their required packages.

Step 2 - Download and Extract Gibbon

Next, we need to download the required Gibbon version from the official website.

wget https://github.com/GibbonEdu/core/archive/14.0.00.tar.gz

Extract the downloaded package by executing the following command:

tar -xzf 14.0.00.tar.gz

Step 3 - Configure Nginx

Once you have downloaded and extracted Gibbon, we need to configure Nginx to serve the application.

Navigate to the /etc/nginx/ directory and create a new configuration file named gibbon.conf:

cd /etc/nginx/
sudo vi gibbon.conf

Add the following configuration to the file:

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name your_domain_name; #replace with your domain name
    root /path/to/gibbon/core-14.0.00/;#replace with path to Gibbon directory

    index index.html index.htm index.php;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
        try_files $uri /index.php =404;
        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php7-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        include fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
    }
}

Replace your_domain_name with your domain name, and path/to/gibbon/core-14.0.00/ with the path to the extracted Gibbon directory.

Save and exit the file.

Restart Nginx to apply the changes:

sudo service nginx restart

Step 4 - Create MySQL Database

Next, we need to create a MySQL database for Gibbon.

sudo mysql -u root -p

Create a new database named gibbon_database:

CREATE DATABASE gibbon_database;

Create a new MySQL user named gibbon_user and grant all privileges on the gibbon_database to the user:

CREATE USER 'gibbon_user'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON gibbon_database.* TO 'gibbon_user'@'%';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

Replace password with your desired password.

Exit the MySQL prompt:

exit

Step 5 - Run Gibbon Installer

Now, we need to run the Gibbon installer to configure the application.

Navigate to the Gibbon directory:

cd /path/to/gibbon/core-14.0.00/

Run the installer:

sudo php install/install.php

Follow the on-screen instructions to configure Gibbon. When prompted for the database details, enter the following:

Database engine: mysql
Database host: localhost
Database username: gibbon_user
Database password: password (replace with your password)
Database name: gibbon_database

After completing the installation, set the required permissions to the /path/to/gibbon directory:

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /path/to/gibbon
sudo chmod -R 755 /path/to/gibbon

Step 6 - Access Gibbon

Finally, we can access Gibbon by navigating to http://your_domain_name in a web browser.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Gibbon on Alpine Linux Latest.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we have demonstrated how to install Gibbon on Alpine Linux Latest. We hope this tutorial was helpful for you to install and configure Gibbon.