From ffba3c80cc8b43bc1d08a53ead9d3f89509d8917 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tobias Diekershoff Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2020 18:31:11 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] some updates to the Install documentation --- doc/Install.md | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/Install.md b/doc/Install.md index e0cece958c..3715ab1f9d 100644 --- a/doc/Install.md +++ b/doc/Install.md @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ The account will expire after 7 days, but you can ask the server admin to keep y * Apache with mod-rewrite enabled and "Options All" so you can use a local `.htaccess` file * PHP 7+ (PHP 7.1+ is recommended for performance and official support) * PHP *command line* access with register_argc_argv set to true in the php.ini file - * Curl, GD, PDO, MySQLi, hash, xml, zip and OpenSSL extensions + * Curl, GD, PDO, mbstrings, MySQLi, hash, xml, zip and OpenSSL extensions * The POSIX module of PHP needs to be activated (e.g. [RHEL, CentOS](http://www.bigsoft.co.uk/blog/index.php/2014/12/08/posix-php-commands-not-working-under-centos-7) have disabled it) * some form of email server or email gateway such that PHP mail() works * MySQL 5.6+ or an equivalent alternative for MySQL (MariaDB, Percona Server etc.) @@ -47,7 +47,6 @@ For alternative server configurations (such as Nginx server and MariaDB database ### Optional * PHP ImageMagick extension (php-imagick) for animated GIF support. -* [Composer](https://getcomposer.org/) for a git install ## Installation procedure @@ -61,6 +60,8 @@ If this is nothing for you, you might be interested in ### Get Friendica +Download the full archive of the stable release of Friendica from [the project homepage](https://friendi.ca/resources/download-files/) and the addons archive from [github](https://github.com/friendica/friendica/releases]. +Make sure that the version of the Friendica archive and the addons match. Unpack the Friendica files into the root of your web server document area. If you copy the directory tree to your webserver, make sure that you also copy `.htaccess-dist` - as "dot" files are often hidden and aren't normally copied.