Setup on Arch Linux: ==================== 1) Install Apache, MySQL, PHP, git and php-pear # pacman -Syu apache mysql php git php-pear 2) Set a local 'hostname' of 'aur' - Edit /etc/hosts and append 'aur' to loopback address 127.0.0.1 localhost aur 3) Configure Apache - Edit /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and enable PHP support by adding the following lines. LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so Include conf/extra/php5_module.conf - Also append the following snippet to enable the aur Virtual Host in /etc/httpd/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf. Comment out the example vhosts and replace MYUSER with your username. (You could put aur in /srv/http/aur and then create a symlink in ~ ) <VirtualHost aur:80> Servername aur DocumentRoot /home/MYUSER/aur/web/html ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/aur-error.log CustomLog /var/log/httpd/aur-access.log combined <Directory /home/MYUSER/aur/web/html> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride All Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> </VirtualHost> - In httpd.conf, uncomment this line: Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf 4) Clone the AUR project (using the MYUSER from above) $ cd $ git clone git://projects.archlinux.org/aur.git 5) Configure PHP Make sure you have mysql and json enabled in PHP. - Edit php.ini and uncomment/add this line: extension=pdo_mysql.so If this PHP extension is a separate package on your system, install it. 6) Configure MySQL - Start the MySQL service. Example: # systemctl start mysqld - Create database # mysqladmin -p create AUR - Connect to the mysql client $ mysql -uroot -p AUR - Issue the following commands to the mysql client mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON AUR.* to aur@localhost -> identified by 'aur'; mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES; mysql> quit - Load the schema file $ mysql -uaur -p AUR < ~/aur/schema/aur-schema.sql (give password 'aur' at the prompt) - Optionally load some test data for development purposes. # pacman -S words fortune-mod $ cd ~/aur/schema/ $ python gendummydata.py dummy-data.sql $ bzip2 dummy-data.sql $ bzcat dummy-data.sql.bz2 | mysql -uaur -p AUR (give password 'aur' at the prompt) If your test data consists of real people and real email addresses consider inserting bogus addressess to avoid sending unwanted spam from testing. You can insert garbage addresses with: mysql> UPDATE Users SET Email = RAND() * RAND(); 7) Copy the config.inc.php.proto file to config.inc.php. Modify as needed. $ cd ~/aur/web/lib/ $ cp config.inc.php.proto config.inc.php In case you set $USE_VIRTUAL_URLS to true (default nowadays) you should add a rewrite rule. For Apache, add this ~/aur/web/html/.htaccess: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index.php RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 8) Point your browser to http://aur