Installation in OpenSUSE

The prerequisite for these instructions is a current OpenSUSE installation. LIMBAS requires PHP version 8.2 or higher.

Install packages

In addition to the standard installation, the following packages must be installed for LIMBAS:

$ zypper in apache2 apache2-mod_php8 php8 php8-gd php8-iconv php8-imap php8-ldap php8-ctype php8-mbstring php8-curl\ php8-pdo php8-pgsql php8-soap php8-zlib postgresql postgresql-server ImageMagick ghostscript wget zip unzip exiftool poppler-tools

PHP configuration

The PHP configuration is saved in the file /etc/php8/apache2/php.ini. The following general settings should be made here:

• short_open_tag = On
• error_reporting = E_COMPILE_ERROR|E_ERROR|E_CORE_ERROR
• max_input_vars = 10000

Apache HTTP server setup

To ensure that the .htaccess files used in the LIMBAS directories are interpreted by the Apache server, the following entry must be added to /etc/apache2/httpd.conf:

<Directory "{DocumentRoot}/openlimbas/dependent">
AllowOverride all
</Directory>

Start the apache server:

$ systemctl start apache2

For problems with newer Apache versions (from 2.4), activating the access_compat module can help solve the problem.

Install LIMBAS

See LIMBAS installation.