• Apache
• PHP 5.2+ ** mcrypt ** gettext
• MySQL 5+
• Memcached (optional)

Example Ubuntu 9.10 package names apache2 mysql-server mysql-client php5 php5-mcrypt php-gettext php5-gd php5-mysql memcached php5-cli php5-memcache

• Note: In general, files ending in "-dist" are meant to be copied to a local version without "-dist" and modified for your installation.

• Create a MySQL database using application/config/sql/current.sql as schema

• Copy htdocs/htaccess-dist to htdocs/.htaccess

  • Edit htdocs/.htaccess to adjust RewriteBase if site base URL path is not '/'
    • e.g. RewriteBase /2009/11/plugindir/htdocs/
  • Optionally, you can do away with the .htaccess and move the rules to your main Apache config.

• For a development installation, copy index.php-dev-dist to index.php

  • This should leave error display and logging enabled

• For a production/staging installation, copy index.php-prod-dist to index.php

  • This should disable error display and logging, along with settings specified below.

• Set up Apache config something like the following for a virtual host:

    <VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerName dev.plugindir.mozilla.org
        DocumentRoot {plugindir path}/htdocs/
        ErrorLog {plugindir path}/logs/error_log
        TransferLog {plugindir path}/logs/access_log
        <Directory {plugindir path}/htdocs/>
            AllowOverride all
            Order allow,deny
            Allow from all
        </Directory>
    </VirtualHost>
  

• Copy application/config/config-local.php-dist to application/config/config-local.php

  • Change $config['core.site_protocol'] to 'http' or 'https', accordingly.
  • Change $config['core.site_domain'] to match installation domain and base path.
    • eg. if the site lives at http://dev.plugindir.mozilla.org/~lorchard/plugindir, change core.site_domain to dev.plugindir.mozilla.org/~lorchard/plugindir
  • Modify $config['database.default'] to reflect your primary database connection
  • Modify $config['database.shadow'] to reflect your read shadow database connection
    • If there's no read shadow, delete the 'read_shadow' setting from the primary database config.
  • If memcached is available:
    • Delete the existing $config['cache.default']
    • Uncomment the following $config['cache.default'] settings and associated memcache configurations settings.
    • Modify the memcache settings accordingly
  • For production / staging make these changes:
    • core.internal_cache = 60
    • core.internal_cache_key = (pick some random key, eg 'abs%^&27Abh11@')
    • core.log_threshold = 0
    • core.display_errors = FALSE
    • core.render_stats = FALSE

• Make these directories exist and are writable by Apache:

  • application/logs
  • application/cache
  • application/cache/twig

• Run this to import initial plugin definitions:

  • php htdocs/index.php util/import plugins-info/*json
    • You may need to do this as the Apache user, or another user in same group.
    • This will attempt to write to the same logs, caches, etc as the web app.
    • Watch application/logs/(date).log.php for errors

• Creating the initial admin user:

  • php htdocs/index.php util/createlogin admin [email protected] admin

    • First argument is the login name (ie. 'admin')
    • Second argument is a valid email address (ie. '[email protected]')
    • Third argument is the access role for the user (ie. admin, editor, member)

  • Note the password generated and displayed on a successful new login creation:

    Profile ID 10 created for 'admin4' Password: wxg3qav

• (optional) To run tests (requires PHP CLI):

  • Create another MySQL database just for tests
  • Copy config-testing.php-dist to config-testing.php
  • Modify config-testing.php as above, substituting test database details
  • To list available test groups:
    • php htdocs/index.php phpunit/group
  • Try running the plugin model tests:
    • php htdocs/index.php phpunit/group/models.plugindir.plugin

• To update locales after code / template changes:

  • php htdocs/index.php util/compiletemplates
  • ./bin/extract-po.sh

• To compile messages after localization work:

  • ./bin/compile-mo.sh

• See: https://wiki.mozilla.org/PFS2#Request_Parameters
• Example query:
  • curl -sD - 'http://dev.plugindir.mozilla.org/pfs/v2?mimetype=application%2Fx-shockwave-flash+application%2Ffuturesplash&appID=%7Bec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384%7D&appRelease=3.5.5&appVersion=20091102134505&clientOS=Intel+Mac+OS+X+10.6&chromeLocale=en-US'