Invoice Ninja is a free, open-source invoicing and payment software that is designed to help you create and manage your invoices. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Invoice Ninja on Alpine Linux Latest.
Before starting with the installation process, you will need:
Before installing Invoice Ninja, you need to install the LEMP stack on your Alpine Linux server. LEMP includes Linux, Nginx, MySQL or MariaDB, and PHP.
To install LEMP, run the following command on your terminal:
apk add nginx mariadb mariadb-client php7 php7-fpm php7-mysqli php7-json php7-dom php7-curl php7-mbstring php7-zip
Once the LEMP stack is installed, you need to configure the NGINX web server to serve Invoice Ninja.
Create the following NGINX configuration file at /etc/nginx/conf.d/your-domain.com.conf to configure the virtual host for your domain:
server {
listen 80;
server_name your-domain.com www.your-domain.com;
root /var/www/invoiceninja/public;
index index.php;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri /index.php =404;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php-fpm.sock;
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 SCRIPT_NAME $fastcgi_script_name;
}
}
Replace your-domain.com and www.your-domain.com with your actual domain name or IP address.
Test the NGINX configuration by running:
nginx -t
If there are no syntax errors, restart the NGINX service with the following command:
rc-service nginx restart
After configuring the web server, download the latest version of Invoice Ninja from the official website using the following command:
wget https://download.invoiceninja.com/ -O invoiceninja.zip
Next, extract the Invoice Ninja package and move it to the webroot directory:
unzip invoiceninja.zip -d /var/www/
mv /var/www/ninja /var/www/invoiceninja
Give the required ownership and permissions by running the following command:
chown -R nginx:nginx /var/www/invoiceninja
chmod -R 755 /var/www/invoiceninja
Invoice Ninja stores its data in a database. You can use either MySQL or MariaDB as your database server.
Create a new database and a user for Invoice Ninja by running the following commands:
mysql -u root -p
CREATE DATABASE invoiceninja;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON invoiceninja.* TO 'ninjauser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'ninjauser_password';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;
Replace invoiceninja with your desired database name, ninjauser with your desired username, and ninjauser_password with your desired password.
To complete the installation of Invoice Ninja, you need to configure it with your database credentials.
Copy the .env.example file to a new .env file:
cp /var/www/invoiceninja/.env.example /var/www/invoiceninja/.env
Edit .env file with your favorite editor and specify the database name, database user, and password that you created in Step 4:
DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=invoiceninja
DB_USERNAME=ninjauser
DB_PASSWORD=ninjauser_password
Save the file and exit.
Next, generate a new application key by running the following command:
php /var/www/invoiceninja/artisan key:generate
Finally, navigate to http://your-domain.com in your web browser, and follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation of Invoice Ninja.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Invoice Ninja on Alpine Linux Latest. You can now use Invoice Ninja to create and manage your invoices.
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