Install on Linux

Linux makes a good home for a Xibo server. All of the software it needs to support it is provided by the major Linux distributions. We'll cover Ubuntu in detail here, as it's what I use. There are some notes further down for other distributions, however the whole procedure is very similar.

Setup Apache and PHP

Ubuntu

Install Apache 2.x Webserver
```
sudo apt-get install apache2
```
Install MySQL Server
```
sudo apt-get install mysql-server
```

Install PHP5 :

sudo apt-get install php5 php5-mysql php5-gd

On Ubuntu, DOM, libXML, gettext and JSON extension is already compiled on PHP5

Restart Apache 2 Webserver if necessary
```
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
```

CentOS 5.x / Redhat RHEL 5.x

JSON extension is not include in CentOS 5.x or Redhat RHEL 5.x but you can install it with this steps :

Install JSON PHP Extension
```
yum install php-devel
```

If you have more than 8MB of memory limit for PHP, install with PEAR :

 pear install pecl/json

If you have less than 8MB of memory limit for PHP, PEAR failed to install... Use PECL :

 pecl install json

Active JSON extension :

vim /etc/php.d/json.ini

# Json Extension
extension=json.so

Save file and restart the Apache webserver :
```
/etc/init.d/httpd restart
```

SuSe

during web install library location says 'full path' but means relative to document root on suse linux
```
for me this is /srv/www/htdocs/xlib   in the box for full path, i put "xlib"
```

Install Xibo

Extract the tarball you downloaded inside your webserver's document root (eg /var/www/xibo) and ensure the webserver has permissions to read and write those files:
```
cd /var/www
sudo tar zxvf ~/xibo-1.0.5-server.tar.gz
sudo mv xibo-1.0.5-server xibo
sudo chown www-data.www-data -R xibo
```
Make a directory for the server library. Make sure the webserver has permission to write to this location:
```
sudo mkdir /xibo-library
sudo chown www-data.www-data -R /xibo-library
```
You should now use a webbrowser to visit your webserver - eg http://myserver/xibo
The process is fairly self explanatory. Follow the final part of the Windows instructions for greater detail.