Installation

Installing ERPNext on Ubuntu 18.04

Update and Upgrade APT.


sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get upgrade

Install Nginx.

sudo apt-get install nginx

Run below command to install MariaDB.

sudo apt-get install mariadb-server mariadb-client

Run the commands below to secure MariaDB server. Answer the questions when prompted.

sudo mysql_secure_installation

Connect to MariaDB server.

sudo mysql -u root -p

Create a database with named dolibarr.

CREATE DATABASE dolibarr;

Create a database user called dolibarruser. Replace password_here with your own password.

CREATE USER 'dolibarruser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password_here';

Grant the user full access to the database.


GRANT ALL ON dolibarr.* TO 'dolibarruser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password_here' WITH GRANT OPTION;

Save changes and exit.


FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
exit;

Run the below commands to add third party repository for PHP-FPM installation.


sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php

Run below command to update package repositories.

sudo apt update

Execute command to install PHP 7.1.


sudo apt install php7.1-fpm php7.1-common php7.1-curl php7.1-intl php7.1-mbstring php7.1-mcrypt php7.1-json php7.1-xmlrpc php7.1-soap php7.1-mysql php7.1-gd php7.1-xml php7.1-cli php7.1-zip

Restart Nginx.

sudo systemctl restart nginx

Run the below command to get latest Dolibarr release.

cd /tmp && wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/dolibarr/files/Dolibarr%20ERP-CRM/7.0.2/dolibarr-7.0.2.zip

Unzip and move project to web server root direrectory.


sudo unzip dolibarr-7.0.2.zip
sudo mv dolibarr-7.0.2 /var/www/html/dolibarr

Set the correct permissions for Dolibarr.


sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/dolibarr/
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/dolibarr/

Create Nginx configuration file for Dolibarr.

sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/dolibarr

Copy and paste the content below into the file and save it. Replace example.com with your own domain.


server {
    listen 80;
    listen [::]:80;
    root /var/www/html/dolibarr;
    index  index.php index.html index.htm;
    server_name  example.com;

    location / {
    try_files $uri $uri/ =404;        
    }

    location ~ [^/]\.php(/|$) {
        include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.1-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        include fastcgi_params;
    }

}

Create symlink for dolibarr file.

sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/opencart /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/

Restart Nginx.

sudo systemctl restart nginx

Follow the wizard for Dolibarr installation.

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