Install from Ubuntu repository
sudo apt-get install phpgedview
Configure PhpGedView with MySQL
sudo gedit /etc/phpgedview/config.php
$DBTYPE = "mysql";
$DBHOST = "localhost";
$DBUSER = "phpgedview_my_family";
$DBPASS = "password_for_dbuser";
$DBNAME = "phpgedview_my_family";
Setup virtual host
sudo gedit /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
Alias /gedview /usr/share/phpgedview/www
<directory /usr/share/phpgedview/www>
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride Limit Options FileInfo
DirectoryIndex index.php
</directory>
Restart Apache
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Ubuntu 8.04 repository bug: Fails to install the root .js files, copy these scripts to /usr/share/phpgedview/www
This as you can see is fraught with bugs.
I’m now happy to suggest the manual install is by far safer way of doing it!
http://www.phpgedview.net/installation.php
Comment by admin — August 25, 2008 @ 4:54 am