Invoice Ninja is a popular open-source invoicing system that allows you to manage your invoices, clients, and payments easily. In this tutorial, we will guide you on how to install Invoice Ninja on Clear Linux Latest.
Before we begin, make sure you have the following:
The first step is to install PHP and its required extensions. Invoice Ninja requires the following PHP extensions:
To install these extensions, run the following command:
sudo swupd bundle-add php-basic php-curl php-json php-mbstring php-mysql php-xml
Composer is a dependency manager for PHP. We will use Composer to install the required dependencies for the Invoice Ninja application.
To install Composer, first, download the latest version with the following command:
sudo curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php -- --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer
Once Composer is installed, verify the installation with the following command:
composer --version
Now it's time to download and install Invoice Ninja. First, create a directory for Invoice Ninja and navigate inside it with the following commands:
sudo mkdir /var/www/invoiceninja
cd /var/www/invoiceninja
Next, download the latest release of Invoice Ninja with the following command:
sudo composer create-project invoiceninja/invoiceninja --prefer-dist .
Note the period at the end of the above command, which denotes the current directory.
After the download is finished, set permissions on the storage and bootstrap/cache directories with the following commands:
sudo chown -R :www-data storage bootstrap/cache
sudo chmod -R 775 storage bootstrap/cache
Next, configure Apache web server to serve Invoice Ninja. First, create a new virtual host configuration file for Invoice Ninja with the following command:
sudo nano /etc/httpd/conf.d/invoiceninja.conf
Add the following content to the file and save it:
Alias /invoiceninja "/var/www/invoiceninja/public"
<Directory "/var/www/invoiceninja/public">
AllowOverride All
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
Require all granted
</Directory>
Save and close the file.
Next, restart Apache web server with the following command:
sudo systemctl restart httpd
Finally, configure Invoice Ninja by creating a new configuration file with the following command:
sudo cp /var/www/invoiceninja/.env.example /var/www/invoiceninja/.env
sudo nano /var/www/invoiceninja/.env
Update the following settings:
APP_URL=http://your_ip_address/invoiceninja
DB_HOST=localhost
DB_DATABASE=your_database_name
DB_USERNAME=your_database_username
DB_PASSWORD=your_database_password
Save and close the file.
Now that you have completed the configuration, open Invoice Ninja in your web browser by navigating to the following address:
http://your_ip_address/invoiceninja/public
Follow the on-screen installation instructions to finish the installation.
Congratulations! You have installed Invoice Ninja on Clear Linux Latest.
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