koseven/system/guide/ko7/install.md

Requirements

[!!] Before continuing, make sure you have a web server (like Apache) configured with the following requirements.

• PHP 7.0.21 or newer (with default extenions).
• Multibyte String Extension

Download

You can get the latest stable release on GitHub Koseven website. This will give you a fully functional application with an application, modules, and system directory.

[!!] You can find information about the file structure on the Cascading Filesystem page.

Once downloaded, you should extract the Koseven application to a directory where the web server can access it. Going forward, we are going to assume you've extracted the application to the root directory of your webserver such that http://localhost/index.php is pointing to the index.php file of Koseven.

Configure

Before the application can be run, you will need to make a few changes to the application/bootstrap.php file. This file is the first one to be included by index.php and sets up most of the global options for the application. Open application/bootstrap.php and make the following changes:

• Set the default timezone for your application.

  // Example of changing timezone to Sao Paulo, Brazil
  date_default_timezone_set('America/Sao_Paulo');
  

• Set the base_url in the [KO7::init] call to reflect the location of the koseven folder on your server relative to the document root.

  /**
  * Example of ko7's installation at /var/www/ko7 and
  * Apache's DocumentRoot configured to /var/www
  */
  Kohana::init(array(
  	'base_url' => '/',
  ));
  

• List your trusted hosts. Open application/config/url.php and add regex patterns of the hosts you expect your application to be accessible from.

[!!] Do not forget to escape your dots (.) as these are regex patterns. These patterns should always fully match, as they are prepended with ^ and appended with $.

return array(
	'trusted_hosts' => array(
		'example\.org',
		'.*\.example\.org',
	),
);

• Define a salt for the Cookie class.

  Cookie::$salt = 'some-really-long-cookie-salt-here';
  

• Make sure the application/cache and application/logs directories are writable by the web server.

  sudo chmod -R a+rwx application/cache
  sudo chmod -R a+rwx application/logs
  

[!!] Make sure to use a unique salt for your application and never to share it. Take a look at the Cookies page for more information on how cookies work in Koseven. If you do not define a Cookie::$salt value, Koseven will throw an exception when it encounters any cookie on your domain.

• Test your installation by opening http://localhost/.

You should see the installation page. If it reports any errors, you will need to correct them before continuing.

Once your install page reports that your environment is set up correctly you need to either rename or delete install.php. Koseven is now installed and you should see the output of the welcome controller:

Installing Koseven From GitHub

The source code for Koseven is hosted with GitHub. To install Koseven using the github source code first you need to install git. Visit http://help.github.com for details on how to install git on your platform.

Use the following command to install Koseven from GitHub:

git clone git@github.com:koseven/koseven.git .

[!!] For more information on installing Koseven using git, see the Working with Git tutorial.