This tutorial will guide you through the installation process of Monica personal CRM on Alpine Linux.
Before we begin, please make sure you have the following:
To install Monica on Alpine Linux, we need to install some dependencies first. Run the following command to install these dependencies:
sudo apk update
sudo apk add git make nodejs npm yarn php7 php7-fpm php7-json php7-zip php7-mbstring php7-dom php7-ctype php7-pecl-redis php7-gd php7-fileinfo php7-tokenizer php7-session php7-pdo php7-pdo_mysql php7-xml php7-simplexml
Composer is a dependency manager for PHP. To install it run the following commands:
cd ~
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
Now that we have installed all dependencies, it's time to download Monica. Run the following commands:
cd /var/www/html/
sudo git clone https://github.com/monicahq/monica.git
Next, we need to install the Laravel packages that Monica requires to run. Run the following commands:
cd monica
composer install --no-interaction --prefer-dist
The .env file contains configuration settings for Monica. Make a copy of the .env.example file and rename it to .env. Run the following command:
cp .env.example .env
Now edit the .env file and update the following values:
APP_NAME="Monica"
APP_URL=http://localhost
DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=monica
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=
Save the file once you have updated the values.
Next, we need to create a new MySQL database for Monica. Run the following commands to create a new database called monica:
sudo mysql -u root
CREATE DATABASE monica;
GRANT ALL ON monica.* TO 'monica'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
exit
Now that we have created the database, we need to run the migrations to create the required tables. Run the following command:
php artisan migrate
To compile the frontend assets, we need to install the frontend dependencies. Run the following command:
yarn install && yarn run production
Next, we need to start the PHP FPM service. Run the following commands:
sudo service php7-fpm start
sudo rc-update add php7-fpm
Finally, we need to start the web server. Run the following commands:
sudo apk add nginx
sudo service nginx start
sudo rc-update add nginx
Open your web browser and navigate to http://<your-server-IP>/ or http://localhost. You should see the Monica login page.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Monica on Alpine Linux.
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