Install Invoice Plane – Invoice and Payment Manager – On Linux

#InvoicePlane #Accounting #Linux

Full steps can be found at https://i12bretro.github.io/tutorials/0817.html

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What is Invoice Plane?
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[Invoice Plane is a] self-hosted open source application for managing your invoices, clients and payments.- https://www.invoiceplane.com/
 
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Installation
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   01. Log into the Linux device
   02. Run the following commands in a terminal window:
         # update software repositories
         sudo apt update
         # install available software updates
         sudo apt upgrade -y
         # install prerequisites
         sudo apt install curl wget zip -y
         # install Apache HTTPD and MySQL
         sudo apt install apache2 mariadb-server mariadb-client -y
         # install PHP components
         sudo apt install php7.4 php7.4-curl php7.4-common php7.4-json php7.4-mysqli php7.4-gd php7.4-mbstring php7.4-xmlrpc -y
         # configure the MySQL database
         sudo su
         mysql_secure_installation
   03. Press Enter to login as root
   04. Type N and press Enter to not switch to unix socket authentication
   05. Type Y and press Enter to set a root password, type the password twice to confirm
   06. Type Y and press Enter to remove anonymous users
   07. Type Y and press Enter to disallow root login remotely
   08. Type Y and press Enter to remove the test database
   09. Type Y and press Enter to reload privilege tables
   10. Run the following command to login into MySQL:
         mysql -u root -p
   11. Authenticate with the root password set earlier
   12. Run the following commands to create the Invoice Plane database and database user
         CREATE DATABASE invoice_plane;
         GRANT ALL ON invoice_plane.* to ‘invoice_plane_rw’@’localhost’ IDENTIFIED BY ‘Inv0!c3Pl@n3!’;
         FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
         EXIT;
         exit
   13. Continue with the following commands:
         # fetch the latest download URL
         regex='”browser_download_url”: “(https://github.com/InvoicePlane/InvoicePlane/releases/download/[^/]*/[^/]*.zip)”‘ && response=$(curl -H “Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json” https://api.github.com/repos/InvoicePlane/InvoicePlane/releases/latest) && [[ $response =~ $regex ]] && downloadURL=”${BASH_REMATCH[1]}”
         # download the latest release
         wget -O invoiceplane.zip $downloadURL
         # create target directory
         sudo mkdir /var/www/html/invoiceplane
         # extract the downloaded zip to /var/www/html/invoiceplane
         sudo unzip ./invoiceplane.zip -d /var/www/html/invoiceplane
         # copy sample config file
         sudo cp /var/www/html/invoiceplane/ipconfig.php.example /var/www/html/invoiceplane/ipconfig.php
         # edit config.php
         sudo nano /var/www/html/invoiceplane/ipconfig.php
   14. Scroll down to the const IP_URL variable and set the value to the IP address or DNS name of the host
         IP_URL=http://localhost/invoiceplane
   15. Press CTRL+O, Enter, CTRL+X to write the changes
   16. Continue with the following commands:
         # set the owner of the invoiceplane directory
         sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/invoiceplane
 
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Invoice Plane Web Installer
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   01. Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP/invoiceplane
   02. The Invoice Plane Installation web installer should be load
   03. Click the Setup button
   04. Select a Language ≫ Click Continue
   05. Click Continue on the Prerequisites page
   06. Complete the Database Details form as follows
         Hostname: localhost
         Port: 3306
         Username: invoice_plane_rw
         Password: Inv0!c3Pl@n3!
         Database: invoice_plane
   07. Click the Try Again button then click Continue
   08. Complete the Create User Account form ≫ Click Continue
   09. Back in the terminal, run the following command to disable the setup wizard
         # set the DISABLE_SETUP flag to true
         sudo sed -i ‘s/DISABLE_SETUP=false/DISABLE_SETUP=true/g’ /var/www/html/invoiceplane/ipconfig.php
   10. Click the Login button
   11. Login with the Email and Password setup during the installation
   12. Welcome to Invoice Plane
 
Source:  https://wiki.invoiceplane.com/en/1.0/getting-started/installation
 

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