Widcket / dreamhost-phalcon-install

Installling Phalcon on a shared Dreamhost server

#Installing Phalcon on a shared Dreamhost server Here's a way to install the Phalcon PHP framework on a shared DH account by using a precompiled, DH-tailored Phalcon build. I will assume you know how to access the server via ssh and how to use basic terminal.

##Requirements

1. A shared Dreamhost account with shell access
2. A domain running PHP 5.6.x w/ FastCGI. The Phalcon builds I'm providing won't work with older versions of PHP, so in that case you'll need to upgrade or compile phalcon.so yourself.

##Steps

1. Login to your account via ssh

2. Make sure you're in the home directory

   $ cd ~/
   

3. Create a folder to put Phalcon into

   $ mkdir extensions
   

4. Grab Phalcon. Replace __PHALCON_VERSION__ with the one you want, e.g. 2.0.0b3

   wget -O extensions/phalcon.so https://github.com/Widcket/dreamhost-phalcon-install/blob/master/__PHALCON_VERSION__/phalcon.so?raw=true
   

5. Create a folder to put the phprc file into

   $ mkdir -p .php/5.6
   

6. Create the phprc file

   $ nano .php/5.6/phprc
   

7. Drop this line in. Replace __USERNAME__ with your actual username

   extension = /home/__USERNAME__/extensions/phalcon.so
   

8. Save the file and exit (Ctrl+O then Ctrl+X)

9. You're done! Check it with phpinfo()