Lavagna is an open-source web-based project management tool that can be hosted on your own server. In this tutorial, we will walk you through step-by-step instructions to install Lavagna on Debian Latest.
Before proceeding with the installation, make sure that you have the following prerequisites:
First, we need to install all the required dependencies for installing Lavagna. You can do this by running the following command:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install git curl unzip php-xml php-mysql php-curl php-gd php-mbstring mysql-server composer
Lavagna source code can be downloaded from its official GitHub repository. You can download it by running the following command:
cd /var/www/
sudo git clone https://github.com/digitalidea/lavagna.git
Now, change the directory to the Lavagna folder:
cd lavagna
Before installing Lavagna, we need to create a new database and user for Lavagna. You can do this by following the below steps:
sudo mysql -u root -p
Enter password:
mysql> CREATE DATABASE lavagna;
mysql> CREATE USER 'lavagna'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'YOUR_PASSWORD';
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON lavagna.* TO 'lavagna'@'localhost';
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
mysql> exit;
Now, we need to install the dependencies using Composer. You can do this by running the following command:
sudo composer install --no-dev
After that, copy the .env.example file to .env file:
sudo cp .env.example .env
Open the .env file using your favorite text editor:
sudo nano .env
Update the following fields with your database credentials:
DB_HOST=localhost
DB_DATABASE=lavagna
DB_USERNAME=lavagna
DB_PASSWORD=YOUR_PASSWORD
Save and exit the file.
Now, we need to create a new Laravel application key by running the following command:
sudo php artisan key:generate
Finally, run the following command to migrate and seed the database:
sudo php artisan migrate --seed --force
We need to create a virtual host for Lavagna in the Nginx web server. You can do this by creating a new .conf file in the sites-available directory:
sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/lavagna.conf
Add the following code to the file:
server {
listen 80;
server_name example.com;
root /var/www/lavagna/public;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock;
}
}
Replace the server_name with your domain name and save the file.
Now create a symlink to the newly created file in the sites-enabled directory:
sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/lavagna.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
Test the Nginx configuration using the following command:
sudo nginx -t
If there are no errors, restart the Nginx service:
sudo systemctl restart nginx.service
Finally, you can access Lavagna on your web browser using your domain name or the server IP address:
http://example.com
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Lavagna on Debian Latest. Now you can start using Lavagna to manage your projects.
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