How to install Invoice Ninja ( free invoice generator) on Ubuntu

Update Server: apt update && apt upgrade -y

Set Hostname: hostnamectl set-hostname invoiceninja.example.com sudo vim /etc/hosts update 51.79.66.237 invoiceninja.cabnt-reprsntive.com invoiceninja

Install the required packages: sudo apt install software-properties-common apt-transport-https ca-certificates gnupg2 vim -y

Install LAMP: sudo apt install apache2 mariadb-server mariadb-client sudo apt install software-properties-common sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php sudo apt update sudo apt install php8.1 libapache2-mod-php8.1 sudo apt install php8.1-{fpm,soap,bcmath,common,imagick,mysql,gmp,curl,intl,mbstring,xmlrpc,gd,xml,cli,zip,bz2} systemctl status php*-fpm.service

Configure Database: sudo systemctl enable --now mariadb sudo mysql_secure_installation sudo mysql -u root -p create database invoicedb; create user invoice@localhost identified by 'your_password'; grant all privileges on invoicedb.* to invoice@localhost; flush privileges; exit;

Install Invoice Ninja: VER=v5.5.40 wget https://github.com/invoiceninja/invoiceninja/releases/download/$VER/invoiceninja.zip apt install unzip sudo unzip invoiceninja.zip -d /var/www/html/ sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html cd /var/www/html sudo cp .env.example .env sudo vim .env update APP_URL=//invoiceninja.example.com

DB_CONNECTION=mysql MULTI_DB_ENABLED=false

DB_HOST=localhost DB_DATABASE=invoicedb DB_USERNAME=invoice DB_PASSWORD=Str0ngPassw0rd123 DB_PORT=3306

sudo chown www-data:www-data /var/www/html/.env sudo php /var/www/html/artisan key:generate sudo php /var/www/html/artisan migrate:fresh --seed

Configure Apache: sudo vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/ninja.conf paste

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[VirtualHost *:80] ServerName invoiceninja.example.com DocumentRoot /var/www/html/public [Directory /var/www/html/public] DirectoryIndex index.php Options +FollowSymLinks AllowOverride All Require all granted [/Directory]

ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/invoice-ninja.error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/invoice-ninja.access.log combined

#Include /etc/apache2/conf-available/php8.1-fpm.conf

[/VirtualHost]

sudo a2ensite ninja.conf sudo a2enmod mpm_event proxy_fcgi setenvif sudo a2enmod rewrite sudo a2dissite 000-default.conf sudo systemctl restart apache2 systemctl status apache2

Enable HTTPS: sudo apt install python3-certbot-apache -y certbot --apache -d invoiceninja.example.com

Access Invoice Ninja : invoiceninja.example.com ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PODNht7VcI