How to Install DocPHT on Clear Linux Latest

DocPHT is a highly customizable, lightweight and powerful documentation generator that allows you to create online documentation with ease. In this tutorial, we will go through the process of installing DocPHT on Clear Linux Latest.

Prerequisites

Before we can install DocPHT, we need to ensure that our Clear Linux Latest system has the following installed:

• Apache web server
• PHP 7.4 or higher
• MariaDB or MySQL server

Step 1 - Install Required Packages

To install the required packages, we need to first update the package repository index by running the following command:

sudo swupd update

Next, we install the required packages using the following command:

sudo swupd bundle-add php-basic php-xml apache mariadb-client

This will install Apache web server, PHP and MariaDB client libraries.

Step 2 - Download DocPHT

Next, let us download DocPHT from the official website. To do this, we will use wget command.

wget https://github.com/romainneutron/DocPHT/archive/refs/tags/v0.50.0.tar.gz

Step 3 - Install and Configure MariaDB

We need to install MariaDB, create a database and grant privileges to a user. To install MariaDB, we run the following command:

sudo swupd bundle-add mariadb

Once installed, we log in to the MySQL server and create a new database:

mysql -u root -p

CREATE DATABASE docpht;
CREATE USER 'docpht'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON docpht.* TO 'docpht'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

Make sure to replace the password with a strong password of your choice.

Step 4 - Configure Apache

We now need to configure Apache to serve DocPHT. This involves creating a new Virtual Host configuration file.

sudo vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/docpht.conf

And add the following configuration:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName docpht.local
    DocumentRoot /var/www/docpht
    ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/docpht_error.log
    CustomLog /var/log/httpd/docpht_access.log combined
    <Directory /var/www/docpht>
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Step 5 - Installing DocPHT

We need to extract the downloaded DocPHT archive to Apache's default DocumentRoot. To do this, we will use the following command:

sudo tar -xvf v0.50.0.tar.gz -C /var/www/
sudo mv /var/www/DocPHT-0.50.0 /var/www/docpht

Step 6 - Configure DocPHT

To configure DocPHT, we need to copy the config/config.php.dist file to config/config.php and edit it to adjust the database settings.

cd /var/www/docpht
cp config/config.php.dist config/config.php

Edit the config/config.php file with your favorite editor and modify the following settings:

$CONFIG['db_type'] = 'mysql'; // or 'mariadb'
$CONFIG['db_host'] = 'localhost';
$CONFIG['db_port'] = 3306; // or 3307
$CONFIG['db_name'] = 'docpht';
$CONFIG['db_user'] = 'docpht';
$CONFIG['db_password'] = 'password'; // Replace with your database user password

Save and close the file.

Step 7 - Enable and Restart Services

To enable and start Apache and MariaDB services, run the following commands:

sudo systemctl enable --now httpd.service
sudo systemctl enable --now mariadb.service

To verify that the services are running, we can run the following commands:

sudo systemctl status httpd.service
sudo systemctl status mariadb.service

Step 8 - Open DocPHT in Browser

Finally, open your web browser and navigate to http://localhost or http://docpht.local to access DocPHT.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we have covered the installation and configuration of DocPHT on Clear Linux Latest. We hope that you found this tutorial helpful and if you have any queries or suggestions, feel free to leave a comment below.