Requirements-setup-on-Ubuntu.md

Requirements setup on Ubuntu

Prior to playSMS installation the server must be prepared by installing playSMS required applications.

In this tutorial the preparation is done for Ubuntu with LAMP stack.

1. Upgrade

   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get upgrade
   

2. Install LAMP stack and some PHP extensions

   sudo apt-get install apache2 libapache2-mod-php5 mysql-server php5 php5-cli php5-mysql php5-mcrypt php5-gd php5-imap php5-curl
   

3. Enable mcrypt extension manually:

   sudo php5enmod mcrypt
   

4. Restart apache2

   sudo service apache2 restart
   

5. Browser http://localhost and see if the web server is serving

6. Download playSMS package from https://sourceforge.net/projects/playsms/files/playsms/ and save it or upload it to the server