how to install Phabricator on windows?

Question

I tried to install Phabricator on windows 8 with WAMP Apache Server.

As per the below link I installed Arcanist and confirmed with the comment

arc -v 

https://secure.phabricator.com/book/phabricator/article/arcanist_windows/

Next I try to access the Phabricator page on my localhost, I can see only the .sh for Linux, Nothing for windows. Please guide me if you installed successfully on windows.

http://localhost/phabricator/scripts/install/

Answer 1

Use below steps to setup phabricator/arc cli on windows box.

1. Download & Install Git Bash.

2. It needs PHP, if you don't have PHP installed on machine then you use XAMP or WAMP. Find the installation directory for PHP and set system path for that.

3. Open command prompt and test the php installation by writing php command. If it does not show any error then you can skip step-4.

4. In case of MSVCR100.dll missing error. download the exe file from here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-in/download/details.aspx?id=30679 and install it.Once again test php installation.

Use Git Bash to do following:

5. Clone below repos somewhere:

   git clone https://github.com/phacility/libphutil.git

   git clone https://github.com/phacility/arcanist.git

6. Again update system path similar to step 3 and add there : <path>\arcanist\bin

7. Test arc help command in Git Bash.

8. Install Phabricator server certificate using arc install-certificate command.

9. Add an editor by following https://secure.phabricator.com/book/phabricator/article/arcanist_windows/

Answer 2

You cannot install Phabricator on Windows. However, you can install it on a Virtual Box such as Oracle VM VirtualBox which is free. Once you have VirtualBox, you need to create a Virtual Ubuntu there. After installing Ubuntu on VirtualBox you can install Phabricator there, on Ubuntu, by following the instructions.

If you need more help with details and whatnot, I will gladly help you.

Answer 3

The Phabricator server does not support Windows. See the Install Guide:

To install the Phabricator server software, you will need an operating system ... which is not Windows. ... [T]he server software does not run on Windows. It does run on most other operating systems, so choose one of these instead: