Re: Installing PHP on Raspberry Pi(rate)Box

Hi,
the pre-installed image is archlinux. Archlinux has an awesome wiki with alot of help: [wiki.archlinux.org]

The package manager is called "pacman". We are using (roughly) these steps to create the image file.
There you see the packages installed, or should additional be installed.

So connect your Pi via ethernet to the internet, run:

pacman -Sy
pacman -S  php php-cgi php-sqlite imagemagick php-gd

After you managed that, add the following line to

/opt/piratebox/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

include "/opt/piratebox/conf/lighttpd/fastcgi.conf"

Create the file "/opt/piratebox/conf/lighttpd/fastcgi.conf"
with the following content

#-------------------- FAST CGI stuff

server.modules += ( "mod_fastcgi" )
fastcgi.server = (
        ".php" => ((
                        "bin-path" => "/usr/bin/php-cgi",
                        "socket" => "/tmp/php.socket",
                        "max-procs" => 1
                ))
)

Restart piratebox after that

systemctl restart piratebox

If lighttpd fails to start (consult the commandline tool 'journalctl' ) checkout the file /opt/piratebox/tmp/break.log & error.log which contain error messages from lighttpd.

good luck :) B)-

Matthias
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