Admidio is a free open-source membership management software that allows you to manage your club or organization membership data, events, and more. In this tutorial, we will guide you on how to install Admidio on Linux Mint.
Before you begin the installation process, make sure that you have the following:
If you don't have any of the above prerequisites, you can follow our previous tutorials:
Admidio is not available in the official repositories of Linux Mint. So, we will download and install it manually from the Admidio official website.
First, we need to download the latest version of Admidio from the official website. You can download it by running the following command in your terminal:
wget https://www.admidio.org/download/current_version.zip
Once the download is completed, extract the downloaded zip file using the following command:
unzip current_version.zip -d /var/www/html/
Next, we need to configure Apache to serve Admidio.
Run the following command to open the Apache virtual host configuration file:
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/admidio.conf
Add the following lines:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName admidio.example.com # replace with your domain name
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/admidio
<Directory /var/www/html/admidio>
Options FollowSymlinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/admidio_error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/admidio_access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Save and exit the file.
Now, enable the newly created virtual host by running the following command:
sudo a2ensite admidio.conf
Then, restart Apache for the changes to take effect:
sudo systemctl restart apache2
Create a new MySQL/MariaDB or PostgreSQL database for Admidio. You can use the following command to create a new MySQL/MariaDB database:
sudo mysql -u root -p
CREATE DATABASE admidio;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON admidio.* TO 'admidio'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;
Replace admidio with the name of the database that you want to create and password with a strong password.
Open your web browser and navigate to http://admidio.example.com to start the Admidio installation wizard.
On the first screen, select your preferred language and click the "Next" button.
On the following screen, click the "Install" button to start the installation.
On the next screen, provide your database details, including the database name, username, password, and host/file path. Click the "Test Connection" button to check the database connection.
If the database connection is successful, click the "Next" button.
On the next screen, you can configure Admidio's basic settings, including the site title, site description, and site URL. Click the "Next" button to proceed.
Finally, create an administrative user account for Admidio.
Once the installation process is complete, you can log in to Admidio using your administrative user account and manage your organization's membership data.
In this tutorial, you learned how to install Admidio, an open-source membership management software, on Linux Mint. You also learned how to configure Apache and create a database for Admidio. Now you can easily install and use Admidio and its features.
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