Installation

Once your server is configured, install Shaarli:

From release ZIP

To install Shaarli, simply place the files from the latest release .zip archive under your webserver's document root (directly at the document root, or in a subdirectory). Download the shaarli-vX.X.X-full archive to include dependencies.

wget https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli/releases/download/v0.11.1/shaarli-v0.11.1-full.zip
unzip shaarli-v0.11.1-full.zip
sudo rsync -avP Shaarli/ /var/www/shaarli.mydomain.org/

From sources

These components are required to build Shaarli:

Clone the repository, either pointing to:

  • any tagged release
  • latest: the latest tagged release
  • master: development branch
# clone the branch/tag of your choice
$ git clone -b latest https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli.git /home/me/Shaarli
# OR download/extract the tar.gz/zip: wget https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli/archive/latest.tar.gz...

# enter the directory
$ cd /home/me/Shaarli
# install 3rd-party PHP dependencies
$ composer install --no-dev --prefer-dist
# build frontend static assets
$ make build_frontend
# build translations
$ make translate
# build HTML documentation
$ make htmldoc
# copy the resulting shaarli directory under your webserver's document root
$ rsync -avP /home/me/Shaarli/ /var/www/shaarli.mydomain.org/

Set file permissions

Regardless of the installation method, appropriate file permissions must be set:

sudo chown -R root:www-data /var/www/shaarli.mydomain.org
sudo chmod -R g+rX /var/www/shaarli.mydomain.org
sudo chmod -R g+rwX /var/www/shaarli.mydomain.org/{cache/,data/,pagecache/,tmp/}

Using Docker

See the documentation

Finish Installation

Once Shaarli is downloaded and files have been placed at the correct location, open this location your web browser.

Enter basic settings for your Shaarli installation, and it's ready to use!

Congratulations! Your Shaarli is now available at https://shaarli.mydomain.org.

You can further configure Shaarli, setup Plugins or additional software.

Upgrading Shaarli

See Upgrade and Migration