Requirements

Windows: please note: you can simply install "xampp" to get Apache & PHP

Mongo-DB

Any version will do.

Windows users: Even after installing Mongo-DB, the server won't be started automatically. There is a file "start_mongo.bat" to overcome this.

PHP

PHP Version 5.4+


PHP Extensions

-MCrypt

-File-Info (Optional)

-Curl (Optional)

Linux users: Install missing PHP extensions:

sudo apt-get install php5-mcrypt
sudo apt-get install php5-curl

PHP Settings

-Needs shell access

Web-Server

-NGINX, Apache or Light-HTTP with PHP extension

OSX/Windows: You can use ["xampp"].(https://www.apachefriends.org/download.html)

Linux: You may already have it installed but in case not:

sudo apt-get install apache2
sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php

Node-JS

Supported: Node-JS - v4.4.x. Download and install from here.


Updates

Zip installation

1.Close all windows of Control-Freak (stop_server.sh)

2.Re-download and uncompress the zip over your existing installation


Via git

  1. Got to the location of Control-Freak.app

  2. In Finder, "Show Package Contents"

  3. double click "update.command"