Packaged FarmOS Install on Ubuntu

Hosting farmOS
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– The following instructions provide steps to setup FarmOS 3.2.2 on a fresh/default AMI install of Ubuntu 24.04 in AWS

  1. Log in to your instance and run updates and upgrades

sudo apt update -y
sudo apt upgrade -y

  1. Install dependent applications

sudo apt install apache2 mysql-server php php-cli php-mysql php-gd php-curl php-xml php-mbstring libapache2-mod-php unzip -y

– These can probably be included in the command above. If not, you can run them any time to resolve the warnings found in FarmOS Status Report

sudo apt install php-bcmath -y
sudo apt install php-geos -y

  1. Deploy FarmOS web app

cd /var/www/html
sudo wget https://github.com/farmOS/farmOS/releases/download/3.2.2/farmOS-3.2.2.tar.gz
sudo gunzip farmOS-3.2.2.tar.gz
sudo tar -xvf farmOS-3.2.2.tar
sudo rm farmOS-3.2.2.tar

– Let’s be consistent with the use of letter case; Set owner and permissions

sudo mv farmOS farmos
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data farmos
sudo chmod -R 755 farmos

  1. Setup the web config file

sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/farmos.conf

– add stuff in block below replacing anything between {} with values specific to you

 <VirtualHost *:80>
     ServerAdmin {your email address}
     DocumentRoot /var/www/html/farmos/web
     ServerName {your server name}
     <Directory /var/www/html/farmos/web>
         Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
         AllowOverride All
         Require all granted
     </Directory>
     ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/farmos_error.log
     CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/farmos_access.log combined
  </VirtualHost>
  1. Add rewrite mod; Enable FarmOS site and disable the default Apache2 site

sudo a2ensite farmos.conf
sudo a2dissite 000-default.conf
sudo a2enmod rewrite
sudo systemctl restart apache2

  1. Setup the Database and secure it; Replace {your password} with the value you want

sudo mysql -u root -p

– no password for root yet so hit enter

ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '{your password}';

CREATE DATABASE farmos;
CREATE USER 'farmos_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '{your password}';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON farmos.* TO 'farmos_user'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;

– You may choose to further secure the MySQL instance with the following wizard

sudo mysql_secure_installation

  1. Use a browser to finish setting up and configuring your installation
    For instance, if your server name is foo.bar.com, go to http://foo.bar.com
    Follow the prompts to finish your install

  2. Additional follow up after FarmOS running.
    Go to Administration → Reports → Status report

You will see some or all of the errors/warnings below:

Errors

  • Transaction isolation level:
    The following table(s) do not have a primary key: data_stream_basic.
    /fix to be added/

Warnings

  • File system: Writable (private download method)
  • Trusted Host Settings: Not enabled

To fix the two above, create a backup copy of and edit the following file

/var/www/html/farmos/web/sites/default/settings.php

Uncomment and modify the line as shown below (search for file_private_path)

$settings[‘file_private_path’] = ‘/var/www/html/farmos/web/private:’;

Also uncomment and edit the line below (search for trusted_host_patterns)

$settings[‘trusted_host_patterns’] = [‘^foo.bar.com$’];

Once settings.php is modified, run the following

sudo /var/www/html/farmOS/vendor/bin/drush cr
sudo systemctl restart apache2

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    /fix to be added/
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  • Module and theme update status
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