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

What is Invoice Plane?

[Invoice Plane is a] self-hosted open source application for managing your invoices, clients and payments.- https://www.invoiceplane.com/

Installation

   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

Invoice Plane Web Installer

   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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