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Version: 9.x

Install using Composer

Since version 8.0.0, Bacula-Web dependencies are managed using Composer.

As stated on Composer's official website.

Composer is a tool for dependency management in PHP. It allows you to declare the libraries your project depends on, and it will manage (install/update) them for you.

Let's start by installing Composer on your system

Install Composer​

Most Linux distro provides Composer as package, so to install it run this command

$ sudo yum install composer

If your distro doesn't provide Composer package, Composer website contains all information you can install it manually as explained on this page.

warning

Make sure you're using latest Composer version. Please have a look at Packagist.com website.

Install with Composer​

From your $HOME folder, run the command below

$ composer create-project --no-dev --prefer-dist bacula-web/bacula-web bacula-web

Once done, you can check Bacula-Web installation by running the command below

$ cd bacula-web && composer check

Checking platform requirements for packages in the vendor dir
ext-dom       20031129   success
ext-gettext   8.0.28     success
ext-json      8.0.28     success
ext-libxml    8.0.28     success
ext-mbstring  *          success provided by symfony/polyfill-mbstring
ext-openssl   8.0.28     success
ext-pcre      8.0.28     success
ext-pdo       8.0.28     success
ext-phar      8.0.28     success
ext-posix     8.0.28     success
ext-simplexml 8.0.28     success
ext-sqlite3   8.0.28     success
ext-tokenizer 8.0.28     success
ext-xml       8.0.28     success
ext-xmlwriter 8.0.28     success
php           8.0.28     success

Fix files/folders ownership and permissions​

Move the folder in the web server folder

$ sudo mv -v bacula-web /var/www/

Follow instructions to set permissions and ownership in your Bacula-Web folder.

Once you're done, please proceed to the configuration of Bacula-Web.