QloApps is an open-source hotel and hospitality management platform that helps hotels, resorts, and other hospitality businesses to manage bookings, room inventory, billing, and more. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing QloApps on Ubuntu Server.
Before you start to install QloApps, make sure you have the following requirements:
Visit the QloApps website at https://qloapps.com/ and download the latest version of the software. Once the download is complete, extract the downloaded file to a directory of your choice.
wget https://github.com/QloApps/QloApps/archive/master.zip
unzip master.zip
mv QloApps-master qloapps
You need to create a database for QloApps to store its data. Log in to MySQL using the command mysql -u root -p, and then create a new database and user for QloApps.
CREATE DATABASE qloapps;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON qloapps.* TO 'qloappsuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Next, you need to create a new virtual host file for QloApps.
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/qloapps.conf
Add the following lines to the file:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/qloapps
ServerName yourdomain.com
ServerAlias www.yourdomain.com
<Directory /var/www/qloapps>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/qloapps_error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/qloapps_access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Save the file and close it. Then, enable the new virtual host by running:
sudo a2ensite qloapps.conf
Finally, restart Apache for the changes to take effect:
sudo systemctl restart apache2
Open your web browser and navigate to http://yourdomain.com. The QloApps installer should be loaded automatically. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation process. When prompted, provide the MySQL database name and user credentials you created in Step 2.
Once the installation is complete, it is important to secure your QloApps installation. Some recommended actions include:
You can find more detailed instructions on how to secure your QloApps installation on the official website.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed QloApps on your Ubuntu Server. You can now start using it to manage your hospitality business.
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