Installation

Install InvoicePlane on Ubuntu 16.04/18.04 LTS with Nginx using GitHub

Nginx is the most popular and secure web server. In order to install Nginx, use the following command

 sudo apt install nginx

Once the Nginx is install, configure the domain and restart the Nginx by using the following command

 sudo service nginx restart

Next, need to install database Server, use the following command to install MySql server

 sudo apt-get update;  sudo apt-get install mysql-server; mysql_secure_installation

Once, the database server is installed, use the following command to restart MySql server

 sudo service mysql restart

Install PHP for processing

 sudo apt-get install php-fpm php-mysql

Now, you have installed all the required software and the next step is to login to mysql server and create invoiceplane database. Use following command to create database.

 CREATE DATABASE  invoiceplane;

Create a database user called “invoiceplane” with new password. and granted user full access to the database by running the following commands. Change with your desired database user and with your desired password.

CREATE USER 'invoiceplane'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'new_password_here'; 
GRANT ALL ON invoiceplane.* TO 'invoiceplane'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'user_password_here' WITH GRANT OPTION;
FLUSH PRIVILEGES; 
EXIT;

Download InvoicePlane Latest Release

Install Git, Curl and Composer to get started.

 
sudo apt install curl git
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | sudo php -- --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer
sudo composer install

Change into the Nginx root directory and download InvoicePlane from GitHub.


cd /var/www/html
sudo git clone https://github.com/InvoicePlane/InvoicePlane.git
cd /var/www/html/InvoicePlane

Copy ipconfig file with below command.


sudo cp /var/www/html/InvoicePlane/ipconfig.php.example /var/www/html/InvoicePlane/ipconfig.php

Edit ipconfig file and change site URL.


sudo nano ipconfig.php

Set correct permissions for InvoicePlane to function.


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

Congrats! You have successfully installed InvoicePlane on Ubuntu

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