• Joomla ¹⁾
• Realm of Espionage
• https://test.realmofespionage.xyz

• Previously failed with Cypress and Sass, but they look like dev dependencies and possibly optional with --production (source)
• 2026/03/11: --omit=dev and --production failed with 7.0

• FreeBSD 15.1
• freenginx + PHP + PHP-FPM
• Certbot (Let's Encrypt)
• MariaDB

• https://docs.joomla.org/What_version_of_Joomla!_should_you_use%3F
• https://docs.joomla.org/Special:MyLanguage/J5.x:Setting_Up_Your_Local_Environment
• https://manual.joomla.org/docs/next/get-started/technical-requirements/
• https://docs.joomla.org/J5.x:Optional_Technical_Requirements

su -

pkg install git-lite php84-mysqli php84-composer node23 npm-node23 php84-simplexml php84-dom php84-iconv php84-sodium

• https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/commits/6.0-dev/
• https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/branches

su -

git clone --branch '6.0-dev' --depth '1' --recurse-submodules 'https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms.git' '/usr/local/www/main' && chown -R 'www':'www' '/usr/local/www/main' && sync

• https://docs.joomla.org/Special:MyLanguage/J5.x:Setting_Up_Your_Local_Environment

su -

cd '/usr/local/www/main' && su -m 'www' -c "'/usr/local/bin/composer' install --ignore-platform-req='ext-ldap' --no-dev"

su -

cd '/usr/local/www/main' && su -m 'www' -c "'/usr/local/bin/npm' ci --verbose --cache '/tmp/main' --ignore-scripts"

mariadb -u 'root' -p

CREATE DATABASE joomla_db;

CREATE USER 'joomla'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'x';

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON joomla_db.* to 'joomla'@'localhost';

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

EXIT

su -

ee '/usr/local/etc/php-fpm.d/main.conf' && service 'php_fpm' restart

[main]

; User/Group
user = www
group = www

; Socket
listen = 127.0.0.1:9001
listen.allowed_clients = 127.0.0.1

; Process Management
pm = ondemand
pm.max_children = 4
pm.process_idle_timeout = 30

; General
php_value[date.timezone] = "America/New_York"

; End

su -

ee '/usr/local/etc/nginx/default.d/main.conf'

# PHP-FPM
location ~ \.(php|phar)(/.*)?$ {
    fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.(?:php|phar))(/.*)$;
    fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
    fastcgi_index index.php;
    include fastcgi_params;
    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
    fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;
    fastcgi_param HTTPS on;
    fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9001;
}

# End

su -

ee '/usr/local/etc/nginx/vhosts.d/main.conf' && service 'nginx' reload && sync

server {
    listen 443 ssl;
#    http2 on;
    server_name 'realmofespionage.xyz';
    root '/usr/local/www/main';
    index 'index.php';

    include '/usr/local/etc/nginx/default.d/main.conf';
    include '/usr/local/etc/nginx/default.d/headers.conf';

    client_max_body_size '30M';

#    add_header Content-Security-Policy "default-src 'self'; script-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline' 'unsafe-eval'; style-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline'" always;

#    access_log  /var/log/nginx/main-access.log;
#    error_log  /var/log/nginx/main-error.log;

    location /api/ {
	try_files $uri $uri/ /api/index.php?$args;
    }

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
    }

    location ~* /(images|cache|media|logs|tmp)/.*\.(php|pl|py|jsp|asp|sh|cgi)$ {
        return 403;
        error_page 403 /403_error.html;
    }

    location ~* \.(ico|pdf|flv)$ {
        expires 1y;
    }

    location ~* \.(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|swf|xml|txt)$ {
        expires 14d;
    }
 
}

• https://realmofespionage.xyz
• If Joomla gives a 500 error, it's likely the sessions folder not having the right permissions, see nginx - Permissions