This tutorial will guide you through the process of installing Invoice Ninja on your Fedora Server Latest operating system. Invoice Ninja is a popular open source invoicing software that is known for its simplicity and flexibility.
Before you proceed with the installation process, ensure that you have the following:
Start by installing the required PHP extensions for Invoice Ninja to function properly. Run the following command to install the required extensions:
sudo dnf install php-xml php-mbstring php-curl php-gd php-mysqlnd
Invoice Ninja uses Composer to manage its dependencies. Therefore, you need to install it on your system. Run the following commands to install Composer:
sudo dnf install curl
cd /tmp
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
Create a directory where you will download and extract Invoice Ninja. For example, create a folder called invoiceninja in the /var/www/html directory.
sudo mkdir -p /var/www/html/invoiceninja
Change to the newly created directory and download the latest version of Invoice Ninja from GitHub using the following command:
cd /var/www/html/invoiceninja
sudo curl -sL https://github.com/invoiceninja/invoiceninja/archive/v5.2.12.tar.gz | sudo tar xz --strip 1
You need to configure your web server to serve the Invoice Ninja files. In this tutorial, we will use Apache web server.
Create a new Apache virtual host configuration file called invoiceninja.conf in the /etc/httpd/conf.d directory with the following content:
sudo vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/invoiceninja.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName your_domain.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/invoiceninja
<Directory /var/www/html/invoiceninja>
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Save and close the file.
Restart the Apache service to apply the changes:
sudo systemctl restart httpd
You need to create a new MySQL/MariaDB database and user for Invoice Ninja.
Log in to your MySQL/MariaDB server:
sudo mysql -u root -p
Create a new database and user:
CREATE DATABASE invoiceninja;
CREATE USER 'invoiceninjauser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'your_password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON invoiceninja.* TO 'invoiceninjauser'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;
Create a new .env file in the Invoice Ninja root directory to configure the application:
sudo cp .env.example .env
sudo vi .env
Update the .env file with the following settings:
APP_URL=http://localhost
DB_HOST=localhost
DB_DATABASE=invoiceninja
DB_USERNAME=invoiceninjauser
DB_PASSWORD=your_password
Save and close the file.
Install the necessary dependencies by running the following commands:
composer install --no-dev --prefer-source
php artisan optimize
Generate a new application key by running the following command:
php artisan key:generate
Run the following command to execute the application installer:
php artisan ninja:install
Follow the instructions on the screen to complete the installation process.
Once the installation is complete, you can access the Invoice Ninja application by navigating to http://your_server_ip_address/invoiceninja in your web browser.
In this tutorial, you learned how to install Invoice Ninja on your Fedora Server Latest operating system. We hope that you found it helpful and that you were able to successfully install Invoice Ninja.
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