This tutorial will guide you through the process of installing RackTables on your macOS computer. RackTables is a free, open-source data center management and asset tracking system.
Before we get started, make sure you have the following requirements:
You can download the latest version of RackTables from the official website. Make sure you download the appropriate version for your macOS computer.
After you've downloaded RackTables, navigate to the directory where it was downloaded and extract the files.
tar -zxvf racktables-0.21.1.tar.gz
Now that the files are extracted, move them to your Apache web server directory. Depending on your setup, this may be /var/www/html, /Library/WebServer/Documents/ or another directory.
sudo mv racktables-0.21.1 /var/www/html/racktables
You need to change the permissions of the var directory to allow RackTables to write to it.
cd /var/www/html/racktables/
sudo chown -R _www:_www var/
sudo chmod -R 775 var/
Next, create a new database for RackTables to use. You can do this through phpMyAdmin, or through the terminal:
mysql -u root -p
CREATE DATABASE racktablesdb;
CREATE USER 'racktablesuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON racktablesdb.* TO 'racktablesuser'@'localhost';
exit
Note: Replace racktablesdb, racktablesuser, and password with your desired names and passwords.
In the RackTables folder, make a copy of the config.php.dist file and rename it to config.php.
cd /var/www/html/racktables/
cp inc/config.php.dist inc/config.php
Open up config.php in a text editor and edit the following lines:
# Database Configuration
$config['dbUser'] = 'racktablesuser';
$config['dbPassword'] = 'password';
$config['dbName'] = 'racktablesdb';
$config['dbHost'] = 'localhost';
Navigate to your web server's IP address or hostname followed by /racktables. You should see the RackTables login page. Log in with the default username admin and password admin.
Congratulations! You've successfully installed RackTables on your macOS computer.
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