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Platform

Components

Installation

Install Composer

Orchestra Platform utilizes Composer to manage its dependencies. First, download a copy of the composer.phar. Once you have the PHAR archive, you can either keep it in your local project directory or move to usr/local/bin to use it globally on your system. On Windows, you can use the Composer Windows installer.

Install Orchestra Platform

Once Composer is installed, download the latest version of the Orchestra Platform and extract its contents into a directory on your server. Next, in the root of your Orchestra Platform application, run the php composer.phar install command to install all dependencies. This process requires Git to be installed on the server to successfully complete the installation.

php composer.phar install

The installation process would automatically publish orchestra/foundation asset to your public path.

Installation using Composer

You can install Orchestra Platform using Composer:

php composer.phar create-project orchestra/platform website 2.2.x --prefer-dist

Installation using GIT

You can also choose to install Orchestra Platform using GIT:

git clone -o orchestra -b 2.2 [email protected]:orchestral/platform.git website
cd website

This allow you to grab the latest update of Orchestra Platform app skeleton via the following command.

git fetch orchestra
git merge --squash -m "Update Orchestra Platform" orchestra/2.1

Setup Orchestra Platform

Once Laravel 4 and Orchestra Platform is properly downloaded and installed, we need to setup the database and create the application basic schema (including administrator user).

  1. Open app/config/database.php and configure your database connection, you could also choose the environment configuration option available with Laravel.
  2. Browse to the installation page, for example http://yoursite.com/admin and follow the installation process.
  3. And... you're done.

Application configuration are 99% identical to Laravel so that integration is stream-less.

Server Requirements

Orchestra Plaftorm has a few system requirements:

  • PHP >= 5.4.0
  • MCrypt PHP Extension
  • Apache, nginx, or another compatible web server.
  • SQLite, MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQL Server PDO drivers.