Installation in FreeBSD

The prerequisite for these instructions is a current FreeBSD 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:

$ pkg install apache24 php82 php82-gd php82-imap php82-soap php82-xml php82-ctype php82-mbstring php82-iconv php82-pdo wget ImageMagick zip unzip mod_php82
$ pkg update

If there are problems with unixODBC during the LIMBAS installation, a new installation via ports can help:

$ cd/usr/ports/databases/unixODBC
$ make install

PHP configuration

The PHP configuration must be adjusted in /usr/local/etc/php.ini. If no php.ini file exists, php-development.ini must be copied and renamed. First, the following general settings should be set:

• 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:

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

If the file /usr/local/etc/apache24/Includes/php5.conf does not exist, it must be created with the following content:

<IfModule mod_php5.c>
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
DirectoryIndex index.php
</IfModule>

Start the apache server:

$ /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache24 onestart

For problems with newer Apache versions (from 2.4), activating the access_compat module can help solve the problem. If this does not help, the following must be changed in every .htaccess file from

Order allow,deny
Allow from all

to

Require all granted

Install LIMBAS

Siehe LIMBAS installation.