Bar Assistant is a small web application that can help you keep track of your bar inventory and sales. It is an open-source project, and you can find it in the GitHub repository at https://github.com/karlomikus/bar-assistant. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Bar Assistant on Fedora Server Latest.
Before we start with the installation process, make sure you have the following:
First, we need to make sure that we have Python 3.6 or higher installed on the system. To install Python3 on Fedora Server Latest, run the following command:
sudo dnf install python3
Next, we need to install Git, which we will use to clone Bar Assistant from GitHub. To install Git on Fedora Server Latest, run the following command:
sudo dnf install git
We need a PostgreSQL database to store the data for Bar Assistant. To install PostgreSQL on Fedora Server Latest, run the following command:
sudo dnf install postgresql-server postgresql-devel
After the installation, initialize the PostgreSQL database and start the PostgreSQL service with the following commands:
sudo postgresql-setup initdb
sudo systemctl start postgresql
sudo systemctl enable postgresql
We can now clone Bar Assistant from GitHub. Change to the directory where you want to install the application and run the following command:
git clone https://github.com/karlomikus/bar-assistant.git
After the clone is complete, change to the newly created directory bar-assistant.
We need to install the required Python packages for Bar Assistant to work. To install the dependencies, run the following command:
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
Before we can run Bar Assistant, we need to set up the database. To do this, we need to create a PostgreSQL user and database. Log in to the PostgreSQL prompt with the following command:
sudo -u postgres psql
In the PostgreSQL prompt, run the following commands:
CREATE DATABASE barassistant;
CREATE USER barassistantuser WITH PASSWORD 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE barassistant TO barassistantuser;
Replace password with a secure password of your choice.
Exit the PostgreSQL prompt with the command \q.
Next, create a configuration file for Bar Assistant by copying the example file:
cp barassistant/config.example.py barassistant/config.py
Open the file barassistant/config.py and modify the following lines to match your PostgreSQL setup:
DATABASE = {
'user': 'barassistantuser',
'password': 'password',
'host': 'localhost',
'dbname': 'barassistant',
}
Replace password with the password you set for the PostgreSQL user barassistantuser.
We can now run Bar Assistant with the following command:
python3 runserver.py
If everything works, you should see the message * Running on http://localhost:5000/ (Press CTRL+C to quit).
You can access the Bar Assistant web interface by navigating to http://localhost:5000 in your web browser.
If you want to run Bar Assistant behind an Nginx web server, you can set up Nginx as a reverse proxy.
First, install Nginx with the following command:
sudo dnf install nginx
Then create a new Nginx configuration file with the following command:
sudo nano /etc/nginx/conf.d/barassistant.conf
Paste the following configuration into the file:
server {
listen 80;
server_name example.com; # Replace with your domain
location / {
proxy_pass http://localhost:5000;
proxy_redirect off;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
}
}
Replace example.com with your domain name.
Save and close the file, and then restart Nginx with the following command:
sudo systemctl restart nginx
You should now be able to access the Bar Assistant web interface through your domain name.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Bar Assistant on your Fedora Server Latest machine. You can now start managing your bar inventory and sales.
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