In this tutorial, we will guide you through the steps to install QloApps on EndeavourOS, which is a free and open-source hotel management software that helps hospitality businesses manage their online and offline reservations, room inventory, invoices, and more.
Before we get started, there are a few prerequisites that you need to install on your system:
To install Apache and PHP, run the following command in the terminal:
sudo pacman -S apache php php-apache libphp php-gd php-intl php-xml php-mbstring php-curl mariadb mariadb-clients
Once the installation is complete, the next step is to configure Apache. To do that, open the Apache configuration file using the following command:
sudo nano /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
Now, add the following lines at the end of the file:
LoadModule php7_module modules/libphp7.so
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
AddHandler php7-script php
Once you are done, save the changes and exit the editor.
Now that we have installed Apache and PHP with the necessary extensions, the next step is to configure MySQL. To do that, run the following command:
sudo mysql_secure_installation
This command will start the MySQL secure installation process, which will prompt you to set up a root password, remove anonymous users, disable remote login, and more.
To download and extract QloApps, run the following command in the terminal:
sudo wget https://github.com/Qloapps/QloApps/archive/refs/heads/master.zip -O /var/www/html/qloapps.zip
sudo unzip /var/www/html/qloapps.zip -d /var/www/html/
sudo mv /var/www/html/QloApps-master /var/www/html/qloapps
This will download the latest version of QloApps and extract it in the /var/www/html/qloapps directory.
Before we can install QloApps, we need to create a database for it. To do that, log in to MySQL using the following command:
sudo mysql -u root -p
This will prompt you to enter the MySQL root password that you set up earlier. Once you are logged in, run the following commands to create a new database, user and grant privileges.
CREATE DATABASE qloapps;
CREATE USER 'qloapps'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON qloapps.* TO 'qloapps'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION;
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;
Make sure to replace password with the actual password that you want to use for the qloapps user.
To install QloApps, open your web browser and navigate to http://your-server-ip/qloapps/. This will take you to the QloApps installer page. Follow the on-screen instructions to install QloApps.
During the installation process, you will be prompted to enter your database username, password, and server name. Use the following settings:
qloapps user.Once the installation is complete, make sure to remove the install directory from the QloApps directory using the following command:
sudo rm -rf /var/www/html/qloapps/install
To enable the necessary Apache modules, run the following command in the terminal:
sudo systemctl enable httpd.service
sudo systemctl start httpd.service
sudo systemctl enable mariadb.service
sudo systemctl start mariadb.service
To access QloApps, open your web browser and navigate to http://your-server-ip/qloapps/. You should see the QloApps login page. Use the following default credentials to log in:
Once you are logged in, you can start using QloApps to manage your hotel bookings and reservations.
Conclusion
In this tutorial, we showed you how to install QloApps on EndeavourOS with Apache, PHP, and MySQL. With QloApps, you can manage your hotel bookings and reservations more efficiently and effectively.
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