Alf.io is an event management platform designed to streamline event registration, ticket sales, and attendee management. In this tutorial, we’ll guide you through the process of installing Alf.io on Alpine Linux latest.
Before we begin, make sure you have the following prerequisites:
First, we need to install the required packages on the server. Run the following command to update the package lists:
sudo apk update
Next, we need to install some needed packages for Alf.io. Run the following command to install them:
sudo apk add wget git curl php7 php7-ctype php7-curl php7-dom php7-fpm php7-json php7-mbstring php7-opcache php7-pdo php7-pdo_mysql php7-tokenizer php7-xml php7-zip mariadb mariadb-client mariadb-server
Alf.io requires a MariaDB database to store its data. Follow these steps to set up MariaDB:
sudo rc-service mariadb start
sudo mysql_secure_installation
Follow the prompts and set a root password and answer the security questions to secure your installation.
sudo mysql -u root -p
CREATE DATABASE alfio CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;
CREATE USER 'alfio_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'alfio_password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON alfio.* TO 'alfio_user'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;
Make sure to replace alfio_user
and alfio_password
with your preferred username and password, respectively.
Now let’s install Alf.io. Follow these steps:
cd /var/www/html
sudo git clone https://github.com/alfio-event/alf.io.git
cd alf.io
.env
file:sudo nano .env
Update the following lines with your MariaDB database details:
DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=localhost
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=alfio
DB_USERNAME=alfio_user
DB_PASSWORD=alfio_password
sudo composer install
sudo php artisan key:generate
sudo php artisan alfio:install
Follow the prompts and enter your desired site name, email, and administrator username and password.
sudo rc-service php-fpm start
Finally, we need to set up Nginx to serve Alf.io. Follow these steps:
sudo apk add nginx
sudo nano /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
Add the following server block:
server {
listen 80;
server_name example.com;
root /var/www/html/alf.io/public;
index index.php;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
}
Make sure to replace example.com
with your own domain name.
sudo rc-service nginx start
That’s it! You can now access your Alf.io installation by visiting your domain name in a web browser. If you encounter any issues, refer to the Alf.io documentation or seek help from the community.
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