Problem with Installation Instructions on website

julesh

I followed the instruction outlined on https://camanual.whirl-i-gig.com/providence/user/setup/install/Ubuntu_20.04 however, there are a few problem that you might like to address for newbies, like myself.

Ubuntu 20.04 is no longer supported and should not be recommended
PHP 8.2 is not supported on Ubuntu 24.04, but PHP 8.3 is
The vendor directory and contents do not seem to get copied when using the git clone command. Need to copy from providence-2.0.9.zip
The two security commands need to also include the app/fonts and uploads folders

Once I solved the above problems, I was able to successfully install CA on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS server with PHP 8.3 and MySQL 8.0.44. Please could I suggest that the installation instructions be updated to help others.
Thanks

1dog

thank you! you saved me a ton of headache. i was trying to get it running using WSL2 just to try it out and switching to php8.3 fixed my issues (namely a 500 error after getting composer working). i had to do a few extra steps to get apache2 to use it instead of 8.2, so ill leave them here for anyone else in the future:

in /var/www/html create index.php with <?php phpinfo(); ?> in it to see what version of php apache is using
install php8.3 and use the command in the install guide to switch to 8.3
disable php8.2 for apache with a2dismod php8.2
follow the steps here (just the commands portion, and only those for php) https://www.buildersociety.com/threads/enable-http-2-on-apache2-4-along-with-php8-3-ubuntu.7350/