Invoice Ninja is a free and open-source invoicing and billing software that simplifies creating and managing invoices, expenses, and quotes for your business. Here's how to install it on EndeavourOS Latest:
Before installing any new software, it's necessary to update the system to the latest version. To do this, open the terminal and run the following commands:
sudo pacman -Syu
Enter your password when prompted and wait for the update process to finish.
Invoice Ninja requires a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack to run. So, we need to install it on our system.
To install the LAMP stack, run the following command:
sudo pacman -S apache mariadb php php-apache mariadb-clients
After installing the LAMP stack, start and enable the Apache and MySQL service with the following commands:
sudo systemctl start httpd
sudo systemctl start mariadb
sudo systemctl enable httpd
sudo systemctl enable mariadb
To use Invoice Ninja, we need to create a new database to store its data. To create a new MySQL database, run the following commands:
sudo mysql -u root
CREATE DATABASE invoiceninja;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON invoiceninja.* TO 'ninjauser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
exit;
In the commands above, invoiceninja is the name of the new database that we want to create, ninjauser is the database user, and password is the password for the user.
To download and install Invoice Ninja, we first need to install the Git tool. To install Git, run the following command:
sudo pacman -S git
Once Git is installed, clone the Git repository of the latest version of Invoice Ninja using the following command:
git clone https://github.com/invoiceninja/invoiceninja.git /var/www/html/invoiceninja/
Next, navigate to the directory where Invoice Ninja was cloned, and run the following command:
cp .env.example .env
This command creates a new .env file in the current directory.
Then, edit the .env file by running the following command:
nano .env
In the .env file, locate the following lines:
DB_DATABASE=
DB_USERNAME=
DB_PASSWORD=
and replace them with:
DB_DATABASE=invoiceninja
DB_USERNAME=ninjauser
DB_PASSWORD=password
Exit the editor by pressing Ctrl+X, then Y.
Finally, set the correct permissions for the Invoice Ninja directory by running the following command:
sudo chown -R http:http /var/www/html/invoiceninja/
To install the Invoice Ninja dependencies and run the migrations, navigate to the invoiceninja directory and run the following commands:
cd /var/www/html/invoiceninja/
composer install --no-dev --prefer-dist
php artisan key:generate
php artisan migrate --seed
To configure Apache to serve the Invoice Ninja website, create a new virtual host configuration file by running the following command:
sudo nano /etc/httpd/conf/extra/ninja.conf
In the editor, paste the following lines:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName YOUR_SERVER_DOMAIN_NAME_OR_IP_ADDRESS
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/invoiceninja/public/
<Directory /var/www/html/invoiceninja/public/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
Require all granted
</Directory>
ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/ninja_error_log
CustomLog /var/log/httpd/ninja_access_log combined
</VirtualHost>
Replace YOUR_SERVER_DOMAIN_NAME_OR_IP_ADDRESS with your server's domain name or IP address. Save and close the editor by pressing Ctrl+X, then Y.
Next, enable the Apache rewrite module by running the following command:
sudo a2enmod rewrite
Finally, reload the Apache service with the following command:
sudo systemctl restart httpd
You can now access the Invoice Ninja website by opening your web browser and navigating to http://YOUR_SERVER_DOMAIN_NAME_OR_IP_ADDRESS. You should see the Invoice Ninja login page. Use the default login credentials to log in:
user@example.compasswordYou can change the default credentials later in the Invoice Ninja settings.
That's it! You have successfully installed Invoice Ninja on EndeavourOS Latest. Enjoy!
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