Attendize is an open-source event management and ticket selling platform that allows event organizers to create and manage their events, sell tickets, and track attendance. In this markdown tutorial, you will learn how to install Attendize on Ubuntu Server Latest.
Before proceeding with the installation process, you need to ensure that your server fulfills the following prerequisites:
Firstly, you need to update your Ubuntu system packages to ensure that you have the latest packages installed.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
Attendize runs on a LAMP stack. Therefore, you need to install the Apache webserver, MySQL database server, and PHP programming language along with the necessary modules.
sudo apt-get install apache2 mysql-server php libapache2-mod-php php-mysql php-curl php-json php-gd php-mbstring php-intl php-zip
Composer is a dependency manager for PHP that is used to install and manage packages. Git is a version control system that is used to manage source code.
sudo apt-get install composer
sudo apt-get install git
Navigate to the /var/www directory and clone the latest Attendize repository using git.
cd /var/www
sudo git clone https://github.com/Attendize/attendize.git
Move into the cloned directory and install the dependencies using Composer.
cd attendize
sudo composer install
Next, grant the necessary permissions to the storage and bootstrap/cache directories.
sudo chmod -R 777 storage bootstrap/cache
Copy the .env.example file to .env and edit the file to set your database details.
nano .env
Finally, run the following command to create the necessary database tables and seed the database.
php artisan attendee:install
You need to set the necessary file permissions to the Attendize directories to allow the Apache user to read and write files.
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/attendize
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/attendize
You need to configure a virtual host to allow access to your Attendize application.
Create a new virtual host file using nano.
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/attendize.conf
Add the following content to the file. Replace the example.com domain with your actual domain.
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName example.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/attendize/public
<Directory /var/www/attendize>
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/attendize-error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/attendize-access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Next, enable the virtual host and restart the Apache webserver.
sudo a2ensite attendize.conf
sudo systemctl restart apache2
Open your web browser and navigate to your domain name. Attendize will display the installation page. Follow the on-screen instructions to set up your event and make it live.
In this tutorial, you have learned how to install Attendize on Ubuntu Server Latest. You have also configured a virtual host to access your Attendize application. You are now ready to create and manage your events using Attendize.
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