InvoicePlane is a free and open-source invoicing application that can help you manage your invoices, clients, quotes, and payments. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing InvoicePlane on Manjaro.
Before we begin with the installation process, make sure you have the following prerequisites:
If you don't meet these requirements, you can follow our other tutorials on how to install these components.
To install InvoicePlane, we will use the Composer package manager. To install Composer, open a terminal window and enter the following commands:
sudo pacman -S php-composer
composer -V
The first command will install Composer on your system, and the second command will verify the installation.
In this step, we will download the latest version of InvoicePlane from the official GitHub repository. To do this, enter the following commands in your terminal:
cd /var/www/html
sudo git clone https://github.com/InvoicePlane/InvoicePlane.git
This command will clone the InvoicePlane repository into the /var/www/html directory.
Next, you need to install the dependencies and set the correct permissions. To do this, enter the following commands:
cd InvoicePlane
sudo composer install
sudo chown -R http:http /var/www/html/InvoicePlane
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/InvoicePlane
Now, you need to create a new database and user for InvoicePlane. You can use either MySQL or MariaDB for this step. To create a new database and user, enter the following commands:
sudo mysql -u root -p
CREATE DATABASE invoiceplane;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON invoiceplane.* TO 'invoiceplaneuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
exit
Make sure to replace 'invoiceplaneuser' and 'password' with your preferred values.
In this step, you need to configure InvoicePlane to use the newly created database. To do this, copy the example configuration file and customize it to your needs:
cd /var/www/html/InvoicePlane
sudo cp ipconfig.php.example ipconfig.php
sudo nano ipconfig.php
Change the database settings to match your database configuration:
define('IP_DATABASE_TYPE', 'mysql');
define('IP_DATABASE_HOSTNAME', 'localhost');
define('IP_DATABASE_USERNAME', 'invoiceplaneuser');
define('IP_DATABASE_PASSWORD', 'password');
define('IP_DATABASE_NAME', 'invoiceplane');
In the final step, you need to configure your web server to serve InvoicePlane. If you are using Apache, you can use the following configuration:
sudo nano /etc/httpd/conf/extra/httpd-invoiceplane.conf
Add the following lines to the file:
Alias /invoiceplane /var/www/html/InvoicePlane
<Directory /var/www/html/InvoicePlane>
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
Save and close the file, and restart the Apache web server:
sudo systemctl restart httpd
If you are using Nginx, you can use the following configuration:
sudo nano /etc/nginx/conf.d/invoiceplane.conf
Add the following lines to the file:
server {
listen 80;
server_name yourdomain.com;
root /var/www/html/InvoicePlane;
index index.php;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.sock;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;
}
}
Save and close the file, and restart the Nginx web server:
sudo systemctl restart nginx
Congratulations, you have successfully installed InvoicePlane on Manjaro! With InvoicePlane, you can manage your invoices, clients, quotes, and payments easily. You can now access InvoicePlane using your web browser and start using it for your invoicing needs.
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