Installing PHP 8.1 - Linux

This documentation will teach all the steps necessary for the installation of the PHP 8.1, Apache 2.4 and the Scriptcase using the manual installation in the Linux environment. Doing this kind of installation you will be responsible for configuring all your environment settings and the database extensions as well.

Listed below are the operational systems approved for the Scriptcase usage. Only these distributions below and their derivatives are approved for the Scriptcase installation.

Check the list of the supported operating systems:

RedHat
Debian\Ubuntu
Suse\OpenSuse

NOTE: In case you need to make a manual installation of the Scriptcase using PHP 7.3 in Linux, access the documentation in our knowledge base.

Prerequisites

WARNING: If you already have a Web Server with Apache and PHP 8.1 configured, just go to the SourceGuardian configuration and proceed to manual installation.

To proceed with the installation, you will need to download some files.

Necessaries Files:

SourceGuardian for Linux (x86 ou x64): Click Here
Scriptcase (.zip): Click Here

NOTE: Before continue with the installation is recommended that you do not have any other web environment (as XAMP, Zend Server, etc) installed in your operational system. It is recommended to know Linux/Unix environment to use the terminal.

Configuring the PHP - Ubuntu 22.04\Debian 10

Listed below are the necessaries commands for the manual installation of the PHP in the Ubuntu 22.04 or Debian 10. Check correctly the name of the packages in your terminal.

1 - Before run any other command, update your operating system with the following commands:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

2 - Run the command sudo apt-get install php8.1 to install the PHP 8.1. After that, accept the dependencies installation.

If you are using any Ubuntu version before 19.10, it’s necessary to add a repository in your operating system to access the PHP 8.1 packages. See how you can do it below:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
sudo apt-get update

If you are using any Debian version before Debian 10, it’s necessary to add a repository in your operating system to access the PHP 8.1 packages. See how you can do it below:

sudo apt -y install lsb-release apt-transport-https ca-certificates

sudo wget -O /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/php.gpg https://packages.sury.org/php/apt.gpg
echo "deb https://packages.sury.org/php/ $(lsb_release -sc) main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/php8.1.list

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install php8.1

Example:

Installing the PHP

3 - Check the PHP version running the command: php -v

Example:

PHP Version

4 - Now, install all the extensions below that are required by Scriptcase:

Default Extensions:

sudo apt-get install php8.1-curl
sudo apt-get install php8.1-gd
sudo apt-get install php8.1-bcmath
sudo apt-get install php8.1-cgi
sudo apt-get install php8.1-ldap
sudo apt-get install php8.1-mbstring
sudo apt-get install php8.1-xml
sudo apt-get install php8.1-soap
sudo apt-get install php8.1-xsl
sudo apt-get install php8.1-zip

Database Extensions:

Extension	Driver enabled in Scriptcase
`sudo apt-get install php8.1-pgsql`	PostgreSQL PDO, PostgreSQL 6.3 or below, PostgreSQL 6.4 or above, PostgreSQL 7 or above
`sudo apt-get install php8.1-mysql`	MySQLi, MySQL PDO
`sudo apt-get install php8.1-sqlite3`	SQLite PDO
`sudo apt-get install php8.1-interbase`	Firebird, Interbase 6, Interbase 6.5, Firebird PDO
`sudo apt-get install php8.1-odbc`	DB2 ODBC GENERIC, DB2 ODBC GENERIC 6, Generic ODBC, MS Access ODBC, Oracle ODBC, Progress, DB2 PDO ODBC, Progress PDO ODBC, Sybase PDO ODBC
`sudo apt-get install php8.1-sybase`	DBLIB, Sybase PDO DBLIB

NOTE: Some database extensions will depend on third party drivers to be enabled. Click here to access the setup instructions for your database.

5 - Access the php.ini file in the directory /etc/php/8.1/apache2/ and set the recommended values for the PHP directives listed below required by the Scriptcase.

Search for theses directives and set the values as the example:

max_execution_time = 3600
max_input_time = 3600
max_input_vars = 10000
memory_limit = 1024M
post_max_size = 1024M
upload_max_filesize = 1024M
max_file_uploads = 200
short_open_tag = On

6 - By default, the PHP disable some functions that are required by the Scriptcase. Click here to access the list of these functions.

Change the line disable_functions as the example below:

disable_functions =

Example:

Configuring the disable_functions

7 - Set up the PHP TimeZone according your region. Must use the values available in the PHP documentation. Search for the line date.timezone in your php.ini, uncomment and edit according with the TimeZone selected.

Example:

date.timezone = America/Recife

8 - Set up the folders that will store the temporary files. Search for the line ;session.save_path, uncomment and set the path to your temporary folder.

Example:

session.save_path = "/tmp"

9 - Save all the changes made and restart the Apache service using the following command:

sudo service apache2 restart

10 - Check if the changes were made using the file info.php. You will need to create this file and place it in the /var/www/html/ path with the following content.

<?php

phpinfo();

?>

After that, check using your browser the page generated accessing the URL 127.0.0.1/info.php.

Check PHP

NOTE: For more information about the phpinfo(), check the PHP documentation.

Enabling the SourceGuardian

Before starting the Scriptcase installation, you need to enable the loader used for the Scriptcase encryption in your PHP. Follow the steps below showing how to dot it.

1 - Access the Downloads folder and extract the file downloaded referent to the SourceGuardian at the beggining of this documentation.

Example:

cd /home/User/Downloads

sudo chmod 777 loaders.linux-x86_64.zip && unzip loaders.linux-x86_64.zip

2 - Copy the file ixed.8.1.lin and past in the extension_dir directory of your PHP. We will use the path /usr/lib/php/20210902 for this example.

Example:

Ubuntu 22.04\Debian 10
`/usr/lib/php/20180731`

sudo cp ixed.8.1.lin /usr/lib/php/20210902

3 - Edit the php.ini file and below the last line set the path to the extension in the zend_extension parameter:

Example:

zend_extension_ini

Ubuntu 22.04\Debian 10
`/etc/php/8.1/apache2/`

sudo nano /etc/php/8.1/apache2/php.ini

zend_extension = "/usr/lib/php/20210902/ixed.8.1.lin"

4 - Restart the Apache service using the following command:

Ubuntu 22.04\Debian 10
`sudo service apache2 restart`	`sudo systemctl restart httpd`

Scriptcase Manual Installation

Listed below are the steps needed to do a Scriptcase manual installation. To do the steps, it is needed that you have a web server configured in your machine.

1 - Download the Scriptcase (.zip) directly from the download page from our website.

2 - Extract the .zip file and rename the extracted folder to scriptcase.

3 - Move the scriptcase to your server root. Depending of your operating system and the installation the path can be different from the example. However, by default the paths are:

Windows	Server
`C:\Apache24\htdocs\`	Apache
`C:\inetpub\wwwroot\`	IIS

Linux	Server
`/var/www/html/`	Linux Local
`/home/$(whoami)/public_html/`	Linux Server

macOS	Server
`/Library/WebServer/Documents`	Apache

4 - Access the Scriptcase using your browser:

127.0.0.1/scriptcase

By default the selected language is English.

Setup Screen

5 - Check the extensions required for Scriptcase to function and database connection modules that are enabled.

Screen with list of active extensions

Typical Installation

Check the steps below to complete the manual installation of Scriptcase in a typical way.

NOTE: By selecting this installation, Scriptcase will set your environment by default. Defining the installation database and the login user in Scriptcase.

Installation Type Selection Screen

After clicking proceed, you will be redirected to the Scriptcase Login page.

Scriptcase access screen

User

In this field, it is necessary to inform the user to login to Scriptcase. By default, the user is admin.

Password

In this field, you must enter the password to login to Scriptcase. By default, the password is admin.

Keep me connected

This option keeps the user logged in until they log out through the Scriptcase interface.

Forgot your password?

By clicking this option, it is possible to recover the password of the informed user. An email will be sent to the user in question so they can access the recovery steps.

Important: You can only perform password recovery if you have configured your SMTP information. To access our documentation showing how to perform this configuration click here.

Customized Installation

Check the steps below to complete the manual installation of Scriptcase in a custom manner.

NOTE: By selecting this installation, you will be responsible for setting up your environment. Defining the installation database and the login user for Scriptcase.

Screen of choice of installation type

1- Verify that the directories required by Scriptcase have the correct permissions. If any directory listed does not have the active check icon Active_icon , correct permission for this directory.

System Directories Display Screen

Click proceed to proceed with the installation process .

2- Choose the database where the Scriptcase database will be installed. By default, Scriptcase recommends that it be installed with the SQLite database.

Installation Database Choice Screen

You can change the default database by clicking the Change Database button. By clicking this option you will need to set the following options:

Default database change

DBMS

In this option, you will select the Driver to connect to your database.

Server

In this option, you will inform the server to connect to the desired database.

User

You need to inform a user who has access to the database you want Scriptcase to be installed on.