Cosncis installation

Server preparation

Starting point: a clean Ubuntu Server 20.04 installation

Run apt update and apt dist-upgrade to check if your Ubuntu installation is up-2-date.
Restart your server when updates are installed.

Install the following packages with sudo apt install ...

apache2
php7.4
mysql-server
libapache2-mod-php7.4
php7.4-curl
php7.4-gd
php7.4-mbstring
php7.4-mcrypt
php7.4-mysql
php7.4-xsl
php7.4-zip

Remove MySQL strict mode as follows:

sudo nano /etc/mysql/conf.d/disable_strict_mode.cnf

[mysqld]
sql_mode=IGNORE_SPACE,NO_ZERO_IN_DATE,NO_ZERO_DATE,ERROR_FOR_DIVISION_BY_ZERO,NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER,NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION

Restart MySQL

Get Cosnics

Follow the installation instructions above (server preparation), so all PHP packages are installed and MySQL is running without strict mode.

Option one: Get Cosnics from Github (latest version, but always in development)

Install the following extra packages:

git (Normally already installed)
composer

Go to the folder /var/www and run the following command to get the latest Cosnics code:
git clone https://github.com/cosnics/cosnics.git

Now, go into the folder /var/www/cosnics and run the following command to get all dependencies:
composer install

Option two: Ask for a ZIP or TAR package with a installable Cosnics version

Extract the ZIP file into the folder /var/www

Next step:

Change your apache default website config so the www-root maps to /var/www/cosnics/web:

    DocumentRoot /var/www/cosnics/web

Restart Apache

Set proper permissions to the /var/www/cosnics folder, the default Apache user in Ubuntu is www-data:
chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/cosnics

Install Cosnics

Install Cosnics by going to your server URL.

After a successful installation, run the following commands on the terminal once:
cd /var/www/cosnics
sudo -u www-data php console chamilo:rights:structure:synchronize_locations

Troubleshooting:

If you want to use mail functionality in Cosnics, copy the file /var/www/cosnics/src/Libraries/Mail/Mailer/PhpMailer/Resources/Config/phpmailer.conf.dist.php to a new file /var/www/cosnics/files/config/phpmailer.conf.php and change the parameters.
When you get some error messages, clear the cache folder first and try again. Still errors? Check the log files in the folder /var/www/cosnics/files/logs
When you want to start over:
- Empty the Cosnics cache folder ( /var/www/cosnics/files/cache )
- Remove the configuration.xml file in the /var/www/cosnics/files/config folder if you want to run the installer again.
- It's a good practice to clear your browser cache too.