Ocs-server/Install/Configuring a webserver as host

Target system

This guide is inteded to use with Ubuntu and may use Ubuntu only commands. It can be adapted to other distros however. If you want to help adding support for other distributions please feel free to edit this page.

Install distribution packages

Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5 mysql-server php5-mysql phpmyadmin

Enable URL rewriting

Ubuntu

sudo a2enmod rewrite

Now open your server configuration file with your preferred text editor:

sudo nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

Now change those line of code when Directory is / or /var/www:

AllowOverride None

with:

AllowOverride All

And restart your web server:

sudo service apache2 restart

Final result

Now you can check your server is now working at | http://localhost/. You are ready to follow the next tutorial.