Setting up the PhpSysInfo software for server monitoring purposes on our Alpine Linux virtual machine

Setting up the PhpSysInfo software for server monitoring purposes on our Alpine Linux virtual machine

Welcome back to another tutorial from our Alpine Linux explorations tutorial series.

This time we are going to run the PhpSysInfo software on our Alpine Linux virtual machine for server monitoring purposes.

?We need to complete several steps to get it working correctly.

1. We need to power on our Alpine Linux virtual machine from the Oracle Virtual Box Manager.

2. Once our Alpine Linux virtual machine execution environment has fully booted we are ready to begin the process – system ready.

3. We need to open the Linux Terminal.

4. We need to switch to the root user to run the necessary commands to install the PhpSysInfo software correctly.?

5. We first need to update our Alpine Linux virtual machine execution environment. First, run the command ‘apk update’.

6. We then need to run the command ‘apk upgrade’.

7. Now the Alpine Linux virtual machine execution environment is fully updated.?

8. We need to run the command ‘reboot’.

9. Now we need to log back in, open the Linux Terminal again and switch to the root account.

We need to install the necessary packages to get our full functionality enabled.

We now need to install the Lighttpd web server to use our PhpSysInfo package.

10. Now we need to create the homepage to test the functionality of our new Lighttpd web server.

11. We need to configure our new Lighttpd web server.

12. We need to enable the option to include mod fastcgi.

13. We need to add our new Lighttpd web server to autostart on the virtual machine bootup.

14. Now we need to fully restart our new Lighttpd web server to activate the new changes we have just made.

15. We need to add PHP support to our Lighttpd web server to enable the use of our PhpSysInfo package.

16. We now need to add the rest of our PHP support packages to fully enable the use of the PhpSysInfo package.

17. We also need to install the tool git.

18. Our Lighttpd web server is now active and running on our Alpine Linux virtual machine execution environment.

19. Now we need to create the directory for PhpSysInfo, download the software using wget from SourceForge, and open up the archive.

20. Download the software.

21. Open up the tar archive.

22. Create the required configuration file for PhpSysInfo.

23. We need to create the symlink to enable the PhpSysInfo software to run on the Lighttpd web server.

24. Now we need to restart our Lighttpd web server.

25. Now our PhpSysInfo software is up and running on our Alpine Linux Virtual machine execution environment.

26. It is active and working.

27. We have victory.

28. This is great.

29. We can now run the poweroff command to shut down our Alpine Linux Virtual Machine execution environment.

Well, that was fun. See you in the next one! #linux