Editing Install on a blank Debian VPS

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=Introduction=
In this wiki post. We will guide you through installing StageCraft on a blank Linux VPS. This post will assume that you already have your fully qualified domain name FQDN set up for your domain/subdomain.

=Install updates=

 sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

=Install basic packages=

 sudo apt install sudo htop curl wget net-tools

=Setup PHP's repo=

 sudo apt install -y lsb-release ca-certificates apt-transport-https software-properties-common gnupg2

 echo "deb https://packages.sury.org/php/ $(lsb_release -sc) main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sury-php.list

 curl -fsSL  https://packages.sury.org/php/apt.gpg| sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/sury-keyring.gpg

 sudo apt update

=Install packages=

 sudo apt apache2 php8.1 php8.1-xml php8.1-zip php8.1-curl php8.1-mbstring php8.1-mysql mariadb-server

=Install Iocube=

 cd /tmp

 wget https://downloads.ioncube.com/loader_downloads/ioncube_loaders_lin_x86-64.tar.gz

 tar zxf ioncube_loaders_lin_x86-64.tar.gz

 cd ioncube

Find the extension dir:

 php -i | grep extension_dir

 cp ioncube_loader_lin_8.1.so EXTENSION_DIR_HERE

Edit the config file:

 sudo nano /etc/php/8.1/apache2/php.ini

Add this line:

 zend_extension=/usr/lib/php/20190902/ioncube_loader_lin_7.4.so

Restart apache2:

 sudo systemctl restart apache2

=Install FTP server=

 sudo apt install vsftpd -y

Edit the config file: sudo nano ''/etc/vsftpd.conf''

Add these lines at the bottom:

 local_root=/var/www/html
 write_enable=yes
 local_umask=002

Restart the service:

 sudo systemctl restart vsftpd

Set the folder permissions:

 sudo usermod -a -G $(whoami) www-data
 sudo chown -R $(whoami):$(whoami) /var/www/html
 sudo find /var/www/html -type d -exec chmod 750 {} \;
 sudo find /var/www/html -type f -exec chmod 640 {} \;
 sudo chmod g+s /var/www/html

=Setup the database=

Enter MariaDB:

 sudo mysql -u root

Run the following SQL:

 CREATE DATABASE `stagecraft`;
 CREATE USER 'stagecraft'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
 GRANT ALL ON stagecraft.* TO 'stagecraft'@'localhost';


=Enable SSL=

 Enable apache's SSL module: ```sudo a2enmod ssl```
 Enable the default ssl site: ```sudo a2ensite default-ssl```
 Restart apache ```sudo systemctl restart apache2```

=Enable mod_rewrite=

Enable the plugin:

 sudo a2enmod rewrite

Edit the apache config:

 sudo nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

Replace all ''AllowOverride none'' to ''AllowOveride all''

Restart Apache2:

 sudo systemctl restart apache2