Crater is an open-source invoicing application that simplifies the process of creating and managing invoices for businesses. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the installation process of Crater on FreeBSD Latest.
Before we begin, ensure that your FreeBSD system meets the following requirements:
To run Crater, we need to install Apache and PHP on our system. To do so, open a terminal and enter the following commands:
sudo pkg install apache24
sudo pkg install php74 php74-extensions
This will install Apache and PHP dependencies on your system.
Next, we need to install a MySQL server for Crater. To do so, enter the following command:
sudo pkg install mysql80-server
Once the installation completes, start MySQL with the following command:
sudo service mysql-server start
Composer is a dependency manager for PHP. We need to install it to download Crater dependencies. To do so, enter the following command:
sudo pkg install composer
Now, we can download the Crater source code from its GitHub repository. To do so, enter the following command:
cd /usr/local/www/
sudo git clone https://github.com/crater-invoice/crater
To install Crater, switch to the crater directory and run the composer command. Enter the following commands:
cd /usr/local/www/crater
sudo composer install
sudo cp .env.example .env
sudo php artisan key:generate
The above command will install all the required dependencies and generate the key required for Crater.
Now, we need to configure Crater's environment file. To do so, open the .env file and edit the following values:
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=crater
DB_USERNAME={your-mysql-username}
DB_PASSWORD={your-mysql-password}
Replace your-mysql-username and your-mysql-password with your MySQL username and password.
To allow Apache to access the Crater files, we need to update the file permissions. To do so, run the following command:
sudo chown -R www:www /usr/local/www/crater
We need to configure Apache to serve Crater. To do so, open the /usr/local/etc/apache24/httpd.conf file and append the following lines:
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "/usr/local/www/crater/public/"
ServerName your-domain.com
ErrorLog "/var/log/httpd-error.log"
CustomLog "/var/log/httpd-access.log" combined
<Directory "/usr/local/www/crater/public/">
Options All
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Replace your-domain.com with your actual domain name.
To apply the Apache configuration changes, we need to restart Apache:
sudo service apache24 restart
Crater is now installed and ready to use. Access it by visiting your domain name in a web browser:
http://your-domain.com
In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install Crater on FreeBSD Latest. The steps provided here should be enough to get you started with Crater, but you can find more detailed information in the official Crater documentation.
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