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Install eZ Platform on macOS or Windows

This page explains how to install eZ Platform on macOS or Windows.

Caution

This procedure is for development purposes only. Installing eZ Platform for production purposes is supported only on Linux.

If you want to use eZ Platform in the production environment, see Installing eZ Platform.

Prepare work environment

To install eZ Platform, you need a stack with MySQL and PHP. If you want to use a web server, you need to install it as well:

  • For Windows: Apache
  • For macOS: Apache/nginx

The instructions below assumes you are using Apache.

Windows

Locate the php.ini file and open it in a text editor. Provide missing values to relevant parameters, e.g. date.timezone and memory_limit:

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date.timezone = "Europe/Warsaw"
memory_limit = 4G

Uncomment or add extensions relevant to your project e.g. opcache extension for PHP (recommended, but not required):

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zend_extension=opcache.so

Edit Apache configuration file httpd.conf. Replace placeholder values with corresponding values from your project, e.g. ServerName localhost:80. Uncomment relevant modules, e.g.:

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LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
LoadModule vhost_alias_module libexec/apache2/mod_vhost_alias.so

Start Apache by running:

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httpd.exe

Note

You can install Apache as a Windows service by running the following command in CMD as administrator:

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httpd.exe -k -install

You can then start it with:

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httpd.exe -k start

Get Composer

macOS

Install Composer using a package manager, for example Homebrew.

Windows

Download and run Composer-Setup.exe - it will install the latest Composer version.

Download eZ Platform

Download and extract an archive into the location where you want your project root directory to be from ezplatform.com (for open-source version) or from the Support portal (for eZ Enterprise), or clone the GitHub repository:

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git clone https://github.com/ezsystems/ezplatform .

Tip

You can use any other folder name for your project in place of ezplatform. Set its location as your project root directory in your virtual host configuration.

To install Composer dependencies, from the folder into which you downloaded eZ Platform, run:

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composer install

After a moment the installer will ask you to provide a few parameters:

  1. Choose a secret. The secret should be a random string consisting of up to 32 characters, numbers, and symbols. This is used by Symfony for generating CSRF tokens, encrypting cookies, and for creating signed URIs when using ESI (Edge Side Includes).
  2. You can accept the default options for database_driver, database_host, and database_port.
  3. Select a database_name or accept the default one.
  4. Provide your database_user and database_password.

Create database

Create a database by running the following command inside MySQL Shell:

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CREATE DATABASE ezplatform;

Install eZ Platform

Before executing the following command, ensure that the user set during composer install has sufficient permissions.

Install eZ Platform by running:

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php app/console ezplatform:install clean

For eZ Enterprise, use:

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php app/console ezplatform:install studio-clean

Note

Setting up folder permissions and virtual host is installation-specific. Make sure to adapt the instructions below to your specific configuration.

Set up virtual host

To set up virtual host, use the template provided with eZ Platform: <your installation directory>/doc/apache2/vhost.template.

Copy the virtual host template under the name <your_site_name>.conf into your Apache directory:

  • For Windows: <Apache>\conf\vhosts
  • For macOS: /private/etc/apache2/users/

Modify <your_site_name>.conf to fit it to your installation. Then restart the Apache server.

Set up permissions

Directories var and web/var need to be writable by CLI and web server user. Future files and directories created by these two users will need to inherit those permissions.

For more information, see Setting up or Fixing File Permissions.

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