Attendize is an open-source event management and ticket selling solution that enables you to create beautiful event pages, manage attendees, and accept payments. In this tutorial, we'll show you how to install Attendize on Arch Linux.
Before you begin, make sure that your Arch Linux system is up to date by running the following commands:
sudo pacman -Syu
You also need to have the following packages installed:
If you don't have these packages installed, you can install them using the following command:
sudo pacman -S git php composer apache mariadb
First, you need to download the latest version of the Attendize from GitHub. To do this, open a terminal and run the following command:
git clone https://github.com/attendize/attendize.git
This will download the Attendize source code to your system.
After downloading the Attendize, change the directory to the Attendize root directory and install its dependencies using Composer:
cd attendize
composer install
This will install all the required dependencies.
Next, you need to configure the Apache web server to serve the Attendize application. Create a new virtual host file under the Apache sites-available directory by running the following command:
sudo nano /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
Add the following lines at the end of the file:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName yourservername.local
DocumentRoot /path/to/attendize/public
<Directory /path/to/attendize/public>
AllowOverride All
Options FollowSymlinks
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Don't forget to replace yourservername.local with your actual server name and /path/to/attendize with the path where you downloaded the Attendize source code.
Finally, enable the new virtual host configuration by creating a symbolic link from the sites-available directory to the sites-enabled directory:
sudo ln -s /etc/httpd/conf/sites-available/YOUR_SITE.conf /etc/httpd/conf/sites-enabled/
Attendize uses a MySQL or MariaDB database to store its data. Log in to your MySQL server as the root user:
sudo mysql -u root -p
Create a new database, user, and password for Attendize:
CREATE DATABASE attendize;
CREATE USER 'attendize'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON attendize.* TO 'attendize'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
quit;
Don't forget to replace password with a secure password.
Find the .env.example file in the Attendize root directory and copy it to a new file named .env:
cp .env.example .env
Edit the .env file and set the following configuration values:
APP_ENV=production
APP_DEBUG=false
APP_URL=http://yourservername.local
DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=attendize
DB_USERNAME=attendize
DB_PASSWORD=password
MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=mailtrap.io
MAIL_PORT=2525
MAIL_USERNAME=null
MAIL_PASSWORD=null
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=null
MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS=admin@yourservername.local
MAIL_FROM_NAME="Attendize Admin"
Don't forget to replace yourservername.local, password, and the Mail configuration values with your actual values.
Finally, you need to migrate the database by running the following command:
php artisan migrate
This will create the necessary tables in the database.
You can start the Attendize application by starting the Apache web server:
sudo systemctl start httpd
Open your web browser and navigate to http://yourservername.local to access the Attendize application. You should see the Attendize login page.
Use the default login credentials to log in as an administrator:
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Attendize on Arch Linux.
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