Install Akaunting - Open Source Accounting Software - On Windows
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What is Akaunting?
Akaunting is a free, open source and online accounting software designed for small businesses and freelancers. - https://github.com/akaunting/akaunting
Installation
01. Download XAMPP https://sourceforge.net/projects/xampp/files/XAMPP%20Windows/ 02. Download Akaunting https://github.com/akaunting/akaunting/releases/latest 03. Download Microsoft Visual C++ https://aka.ms/vs/16/release/vc_redist.x64.exe 04. Install Microsoft Visual C++ 05. Right click the downloaded XAMPP .zip file ≫ Extract All... 06. Right click the downloaded Akaunting .zip file ≫ Extract All... 07. Rename the extacted folder to akaunting 08. Cut the akaunting folder inside the XAMPP/htdocs directory 09. Navigate into the akaunting folder ≫ Create a copy of .env.example 10. Rename the copy .env 11. Edit the .env file in a text editor 12. Edit the values in .env as follows APP_URL=http://DNSorIP/akaunting LOCALE=en-US DB_HOST=localhost DB_PORT=3306 DB_NAME=akaunting DB_USERNAME=akaunting_rw DB_PASSWORD=@kaunt1ng! DB_PREFIX= 13. Save the changes to .env and close the text editor 14. Navigate back to the Downloads directory and cut the extracted XAMPP directory to a safe location to run from, C:\Program Files for example 15. Run XAMPP/setup_xampp.bat to update the configuration files with the new server location 16. Navigate into XAMPP/PHP and edit php.ini in a text editor 17. Find the list of extensions and make sure the following are enabled by removing the ; at the start of the line extension=gd extension=intl 18. Save the changes to php.ini and close the text editor 19. Right click the Start button ≫ Settings ≫ About 20. Click the Advanced system settings option 21. Click the Environment Variables... 22. Edit the System Path variable 23. Click the New button 24. Add the PHP installation directory (ie C:\Program Files\xampp\PHP) 25. Click OK to all open dialog windows 26. Back in File Explorer, run XAMPP/xampp-control.exe 27. Click the Start buttons next to Apache and MySQL 28. Navigate to XAMPP/mysql/bin 29. Hold the SHIFT key and right click in the white space ≫ Open PowerShell window here... 30. Run the following commands in the PowerShell window to setup the database # connect to mysql .\mysql -u root # create the database CREATE DATABASE akaunting; # create the service account GRANT ALL ON akaunting.* to 'akaunting_rw'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '@kaunt1ng!'; # flush privileges FLUSH PRIVILEGES; # close mysql connection EXIT; # change directory to the akaunting folder cd ....\htdocs\akaunting # generate an app key php artisan key:generate # exit powershell exit
Akaunting Web Installer
01. Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP/akaunting 02. Select a Language ≫ Click Next 03. Complete the Database form as shown below Hostname: localhost Username: akaunting_rw Password: @kaunt1ng! Database: akaunting 04. Click Next 05. Complete the Admin form by entering a Company Name, Company Email, Admin Email and Admin Password ≫ Click Next 06. Log in with the Admin username and password 07. On the Company tab, scroll to the bottom of the form and click Skip this step 08. Select/add the desired currencies ≫ Click Next 09. Click Next on the Taxes tab 10. Click the Create your first invoice link 11. Welcome to Akaunting Source: https://akaunting.com/docs/installation
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