How to Install DreamFactory on Manjaro

DreamFactory is a powerful open-source REST API backend that can help you build modern applications. In this guide, we'll walk you through the steps to install DreamFactory on Manjaro.

Prerequisites

Before we proceed, you need to ensure you have the following requirements installed:

• Manjaro Linux installed on your computer
• Apache or Nginx web server
• PHP 7.2 or later
• MySQL or MariaDB database server

Step 1: Download DreamFactory

You can download DreamFactory from the official website https://www.dreamfactory.com/. Download the latest version of DreamFactory and save it to your preferred directory.

Step 2: Install Dependencies

Before we start the installation process, let's install the required dependencies.

sudo pacman -S php php-gd php-intl php-mbstring php-xml mariadb

Step 3: Install DreamFactory

Extract the downloaded DreamFactory zip file to your preferred directory. You can use any directory you want.

unzip dreamfactory-*.zip -d /var/www/html/dreamfactory

Next, navigate to the DreamFactory directory and run the following command to install the required dependencies.

cd /var/www/html/dreamfactory
./install.sh

The installation script will guide you through the installation process. You need to provide the information for the following:

• Database connection details
• Default user credentials
• Email settings (optional)

Once you have provided all the necessary information, the installation script will complete the installation.

Step 4: Configure Permissions

You need to set the correct permissions for the DreamFactory directories and files.

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/dreamfactory
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/dreamfactory

Step 5: Configure Apache or Nginx

Finally, you need to configure your web server to serve the DreamFactory application.

For Apache, create a new virtual host configuration file and add the following configuration.

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName dreamfactory.example.com
  ServerAlias www.dreamfactory.example.com

  DocumentRoot /var/www/html/dreamfactory/public
  DirectoryIndex index.php

  <Directory /var/www/html/dreamfactory/public>
    Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks +MultiViews
    AllowOverride All
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
    Require all granted

    <IfModule php7_module>
      php_admin_flag engine on
      php_admin_flag display_errors off
      php_admin_value max_execution_time 600
      php_admin_value upload_max_filesize 100M
      php_admin_value post_max_size 100M
      php_admin_value max_input_time 600
      php_admin_value memory_limit 256M
      php_admin_value open_basedir none
      php_admin_value session.save_path "/tmp"
    </IfModule>
  </Directory>

  ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/dreamfactory_error.log
  CustomLog /var/log/httpd/dreamfactory_access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

For Nginx, create a new server configuration file and add the following configuration.

server {
  listen 80;
  server_name dreamfactory.example.com;

  root /var/www/html/dreamfactory/public;
  index index.php;

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

  location ~ \.php$ {
    fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.sock;
    fastcgi_index index.php;
    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
    include fastcgi_params;
  }

  error_log /var/log/nginx/dreamfactory_error.log;
  access_log /var/log/nginx/dreamfactory_access.log;
}

After you have saved the configuration file, restart your web server for the changes to take effect.

sudo systemctl restart apache2

or

sudo systemctl restart nginx

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we have installed DreamFactory on Manjaro and configured it to work with Apache or Nginx. You can now use DreamFactory to build powerful applications with ease.