How to Install UVDesk on EndeavourOS

UVDesk is a popular open-source helpdesk system built on top of Symfony and PHP. It's designed to provide great customer support to your clients and website visitors. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install UVDesk on EndeavourOS latest.

Prerequisites

Before we start, make sure you have the following prerequisites:

• A server running EndeavourOS latest
• Apache or Nginx web server installed
• PHP >= 7.4 and its extensions installed
• MySQL or MariaDB installed
• Composer installed

Step 1: Installing the Required Packages

First, you need to install the required packages to run UVDesk on your server. To do this, you can run the following commands:

sudo pacman -Syu
sudo pacman -S git unzip

These commands will update your system and install the Git and Unzip packages.

Step 2: Installing Composer

UVDesk requires Composer to be installed in your system. Composer is a dependency manager for PHP that allows you to download and install required packages for your project. To install Composer on your EndeavourOS system, you can run the following commands:

sudo pacman -S php php-gd php-intl php-apcu php-mbstring composer

This command will install PHP and Composer on your system.

Step 3: Installing UVDesk

After installing the required packages and Composer, you can now proceed to install UVDesk on your server. To do this, follow the steps below:

1. Clone the UVDesk repository from GitHub using the following command:

   git clone https://github.com/UVDesk/community-skeleton.git uvdesk
   

2. Navigate to the uvdesk directory and install the required packages using Composer:

   cd uvdesk
   composer install --no-dev
   

3. Now, you need to configure the database connection for UVDesk. To do this, copy the .env file and update the database information:

   cp .env.example .env
   nano .env
   

   Update the following lines with your database information:

   APP_ENV=prod
   APP_SECRET=some-very-secret-string
   # ...
   DATABASE_URL=mysql://database_user:database_password@localhost/database_name
   

4. Create a new database and user for UVDesk with the following command:

   mysql -uroot -p
   create database uvdesk;
   create user uvdesk@localhost identified by 'password';
   grant all privileges on uvdesk.* to uvdesk@localhost;
   flush privileges;
   exit;
   

5. Now, run the following commands to enable and optimize your Symfony application:

   php bin/console doctrine:migrations:migrate
   php bin/console cache:clear --env=prod
   php bin/console assets:install --env=prod
   

6. Finally, you need to configure your web server to serve UVDesk. For example, if you are using Apache, you can create a new virtual host file:

   sudo nano /etc/httpd/conf/vhosts/uvdesk.conf
   

   And add the following configuration:

   <VirtualHost *:80>
       ServerName uvdesk.yourdomain.com
       DocumentRoot /var/www/uvdesk/public
   
       <Directory "/var/www/uvdesk/public">
           AllowOverride All
           Order allow,deny
           Allow from all
       </Directory>
   
       ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/uvdesk_error.log
       CustomLog /var/log/httpd/uvdesk_access.log combined
   </VirtualHost>
   

7. Save the file and restart your web server:

   sudo systemctl restart httpd
   

You have successfully installed and configured UVDesk on EndeavourOS. You can now access the UVDesk web interface by visiting http://uvdesk.yourdomain.com/ in your web browser.

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