How to Install Traq on FreeBSD

Traq is a lightweight PHP-based project management system that allows teams to collaborate and organize tasks. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Traq on FreeBSD latest.

Prerequisites

A FreeBSD latest server
Access to the root user account or a user account with sudo privileges

Step 1: Update FreeBSD Packages

Before installing Traq, update the FreeBSD package repositories to ensure that you have the latest versions of all packages.

sudo pkg update && sudo pkg upgrade

Step 2: Install Required Packages

Next, install the required packages for Traq to run on FreeBSD.

sudo pkg install php74-ctype php74-curl php74-dom php74-exif php74-fileinfo php74-filter php74-gd php74-hash php74-iconv php74-intl php74-json php74-mbstring php74-mysqli php74-opcache php74-openssl php74-pdo php74-pdo_mysql php74-phar php74-session php74-tokenizer php74-xml php74-xmlreader php74-zip

Step 3: Download and Extract Traq

Download the latest version of Traq from the official website using the wget command.

wget https://github.com/traq/traq/releases/download/v4.3.5/traq-4.3.5.zip

Once the download is complete, extract the archive with the unzip command.

unzip traq-4.3.5.zip -d /usr/local/www/

Step 4: Configure Traq

After extracting the archive, navigate to the Traq directory and configure the application by copying the example configuration file.

cd /usr/local/www/traq-4.3.5
cp config-default.php config.php

Open the config.php file with a text editor and set the correct database details to connect with the MySQL or MariaDB database.

define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');
define('DB_PORT', 3306);
define('DB_NAME', 'traq');
define('DB_USERNAME', 'root');
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'password');

Save and close the config.php file.

Step 5: Set Permission

Set the correct file permissions for the Traq directory.

sudo chown -R www:www /usr/local/www/traq-4.3.5

Step 6: Configure Apache

The final step is to configure the Apache web server to serve the Traq application.

Create a new Apache configuration file for Traq.

sudo nano /usr/local/etc/apache24/Includes/traq.conf

Add the following configuration to the file.

Alias /traq /usr/local/www/traq-4.3.5

<Directory /usr/local/www/traq-4.3.5>
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
    Require all granted
</Directory>

Save and close the file.

Restart the Apache web server for the changes to take effect.

sudo service apache24 restart

Step 7: Access Traq

Traq should now be accessible through a web browser by navigating to http://localhost/traq.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, you have learned how to install Traq, a lightweight project management system, on FreeBSD latest. Traq is now ready to use and manage your team's tasks and projects.