Installation on Debian 7.7.0

 
The following procedure should work for all ILIAS 4.4.0 or higher stable releases.
 
Last update: December 16, 2014, by Anton Arsenij

1. Debian Setup

You can download Debian ISO images at http://www.debian.org/.
 
Use "apt-get install" command to install the following packages:  htmldoc, imagemagick, php5, php5-mysql, php5-gd, php5-xsl, apache2, mysql-client, mysql-server, unzip, zip, openjdk-7-jdk.

2. Configuring PHP

Edit the file /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini. Change the settings according to the Configuring PHP (php.ini) instructions.
 
Open a shell (as root) and use the pear command in your shell to install the additional PEAR components that are required by ILIAS, see PEAR Packages.
 
Restart the apache webserver:
 
> /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

3. ILIAS Installation

Download the latest ILIAS version at http://www.ilias.de/docu/. Open a shell (as root) and change to your download directory. Copy the downloaded file to the webserver root:
 
> cp ilias-4.x.x.zip /var/www
> unzip /var/www/ilias-4.x.x.zip
> chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/ilias
 
Open a web browser and load the url http://localhost/ilias/setup/setup.php. Follow the instruction, disable the tool checks and enter:
 
- Path to data directory: /opt/iliasdata
- Path to log file: /opt/iliasdata/ilias.log
- Path convert: /usr/bin/convert
- Path zip: /usr/bin/zip
- Path unzip: /usr/bin/unzip
- Path java: /usr/bin/java
- Path htmldoc: /usr/bin/htmldoc
 
Finish the installation and enter ILIAS with user 'root' and password 'homer'.