Running Phabricator on uberspace

Phabricator is usually run on root servers, but with a few changes it will run on your uberspace domain just fine.

$ cd /var/www/virtual/$USER/
$ mkdir phabricator
$ cd phabricator
$ git clone git://github.com/facebook/libphutil.git
$ git clone git://github.com/facebook/arcanist.git
$ git clone git://github.com/facebook/phabricator.git
$ cd ..

$ vim phabricator/phabricator/conf/default.conf.php

Search for

'storage.default-namespace' => 'phabricator'

Replace 'phabricator' with '$USER_phabricator'

$ vim phabricator/phabricator/src/applications/config/option/PhabricatorMySQLConfigOptions.php

Search for

$this->newOption('storage.default-namespace', 'string', 'phabricator')

Replace 'phabricator' with '$USER_phabricator'

I also had to create the database $USER_phabricator_auth manually, no idea why it didn't stick.

Then I had to edit phabricator/phabricator/resource/sql/quickstart.sql:

Search for

CREATE DATABASE `{$NAMESPACE}_auth`.

Replace the line with

CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS `{$NAMESPACE}_auth`

$ ln -s phabricator/phabricator/webroot $SUBDOMAIN.$DOMAIN.$TLD
$ cd $SUBDOMAIN.$DOMAIN.$TLD

$ cat << EOF > .htaccess
  RewriteEngine on
  RewriteBase /
  RewriteRule ^/rsrc/(.*)     -                       [L,QSA]
  RewriteRule ^/favicon.ico   -                       [L,QSA]
  #RewriteRule ^(.*)$          /index.php?__path__=$1  [B,L,QSA] # from docs, wrong for uberspace.
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?__path__=/$1 [B,L,QSA]
  EOF

Now go to \$SUBDOMAIN.\$DOMAIN.\$TLD. It should say:

run ./bin/storage upgrade

So, do that:

$ phabricator/phabricator/bin/storage upgrade

Phabricator offloads some work to daemon processes that need to be running all the time. To ensure that, let's create a uberspace service:

$ runwhen-conf ~/etc/run-phd /var/www/virtual/$USER/phabricator/phabricator/bin/phd

Now, edit ~/etc/run-phd/run, and change

RUNWHEN=""

to something like

RUNWHEN=",M/5"

which will run the service every five minutes. Edit the last line and change

/var/www/virtual/$USER/phabricator/phabricator/bin/phd

/var/www/virtual/$USER/phabricator/phabricator/bin/phd start

Start the service:

$ svc -a ~/service/phd

You can follow the service log using

$ tail -f ~/service/phd/log/main/current

You're done! Navigate again to your subdomain and work on the open issues list.

Happy hacking!

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