Phabricator installation issue

Question

I'm following the installation steps: http://www.phabricator.com/docs/phabricator/article/Configuration_Guide.html, but can't install Phabricator successfully. Even I've checked the steps many times.

I created a folder in /tmp/codereview and in this folder, I downloaded the latest code from Github as below:

drwxr-xr-x  8 root root 4096 Oct 31 16:28 arcanist
drwxr-xr-x  7 root root 4096 Oct 31 16:28 libphutil
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Oct 31 17:23 phabricator

I also set the env. variable as just the manual indicated:

$export PHABRICATOR_ENV=/tmp/codereview/phabricator/conf/my

'my' acutally means 'my.conf.php', I've put the MySQL info in it. but when I execute the first setup command:

$./phabricator/bin/storage upgrade

I got the follow error messages:

PHP Warning:  require_once(/tmp/codereview/scripts/__init_script__.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /tmp/codereview/phabricator/bin/storage on line 21
PHP Fatal error:  require_once(): Failed opening required '/tmp/codereview/scripts/__init_script__.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in /tmp/codereview/phabricator/bin/storage on line 21

I think this is from Facebook and a lot of users are downloading it and using it. so the installation should work, do I miss something important?

If you have installed it successfully, can you help check what's wrong with my steps? if you use some previous release, what's your number, so I could use your release instead. Thanks.

Answer 1

Problem solved. this is due to the symbolic link. After I pulled the source code from github, I transferred(scp) the folder to another server where I'd like to install Phabricator. The symbolic will be replaced with real files. this will cause errors as I mentioned above.

So don't copy the folder directly to other server, you could package it and copy the tar ball.

Answer 2

I unsuccessfully attempted to install it the first time on a(n old) Debian system. I couldn't get it working and didn't end up figuring out what the problem was. On my second attempt:

• I created a brand new, empty Ubuntu VM from the latest Ubuntu release (version ubuntu-12.10-server-amd64).
• Downloaded the Ubuntu installer script off from the Phabricator website and ran it on my VM.
• Once the above script was complete, configured the system as described in the Phabricator installation guide.

This process worked very smoothly for me and I was up and running with it in no time! Hope it helps.