Created in 2014 August
Documentation for setting up a bare Symfony2 application on Ubuntu with PHP. A portion of this is ported from DigitalOcean's documentation for both Ubuntu LAMP setup and Symfony2 setup. This project assumes you already have Symfony2 bare application outside the box. Setup also assumes this box will eventually be production grade.
Note: Replace your-project-name with your project name.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install apache2
Add application document root directory
/var/www/vhost/your-project-name
Remove default vhost configuration
rm /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf
Add in a new configuration
vim /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/your-project-name.conf
Paste the following config
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /var/www/vhost/hazchem-sms/web
#ServerName mydomain.com
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
<Directory /var/www/vhost/hazchem-sms/web>
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Optionally you can configure Apache to listen to a port by adding this above the config file and updating the virtual host tag
listen *:9010
<VirtualHost *:9010>
...
sudo apt-get install mysql-server php5-mysql
sudo mysql_install_db
sudo mysql_secure_installation
Don't change the root password, but say yes for all other options.
mysql -u root -p
CREATE DATABASE `your-project-name`;
type exit; to escape mysql
sudo apt-get install php5 libapache2-mod-php5 php5-mcrypt php-apc php5-curl php5-cli php5-json
Package manager service.
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
First find the PHP ini location
php -i | grep 'Configuration File'
Then vim into the first line item
vim /etc/php5/cli/php.ini
Then search for date.timezone, uncomment it, and set the value to America/Chicago. E.g.:
date.timezone = America/Chicago
Move the pointer to the end of the file, add a new line, then copy the configs below:
short_open_tag = Off
magic_quotes_gpc = Off
register_globals = Off
session.auto_start = Off
For smaller instances only, follow the steps below (this is so composer doesn't die while installing)
Switch to root and follow these steps to add the swap space -
Type the following command with count being equal to the desired block size:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1M count=1024
Setup the swap file with the command:
mkswap /swapfile
To enable the swap file immediately but not automatically at boot time:
swapon /swapfile
To enable it at the boot time, add the following entry into /etc/fstab:
/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0
This step assumes you can easily access the code base and can easily be deployed via SCP, SFTP/FTP, GIT, etc...
Point the application code base to /var/www/vhost/your-project-name
cd /var/www/vhost/your-project-name
chown -R root:www-data app/cache
chown -R root:www-data app/logs
chown -R root:www-data app/config/parameters.yml
sudo chmod +a "_www allow delete,write,append,file_inherit,directory_inherit" app/cache app/logs
sudo chmod +a "`whoami` allow delete,write,append,file_inherit,directory_inherit" app/cache app/logs
This file should mimic your app/config/parameters.yml but obviously not have the same values
SYMFONY_ENV=prod composer install --optimize-autoloader --no-dev
php app/console doctrine:schema:update --force --env=prod
php app/console router:dump-apache -e=prod --no-debug
php app/console cache:clear --env=prod
php app/console assets:install web --symlink --env=prod
chmod -R 777 /var/www/vhost/your-project-name
- https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-linux-apache-mysql-php-lamp-stack-on-ubuntu-14-04
- https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-get-started-with-symfony-2-on-an-ubuntu-vps
- http://yourstory.com/2012/02/adding-swap-space-to-amazon-ec2-linux-micro-instance-to-increase-the-performance/