How to install Snipe-IT on Ubuntu -2018

1-Update your system

sudo apt-get update -y && sudo apt-get upgrade -y

2-Installing Apache2

sudo apt-get install apache2

3-Installing MySQL

sudo apt-get install mysql-server

Now we are also going to secure our installation:

sudo mysql_secure_installation

Enter the root password you entered before.

Now you get asked a couple of questions, answer as below:

Enter current password for root (enter for none): Enter your root password

Would you like to setup VALIDATE PASSWORD plugin? N

Change the password for root? [Y/n] N

Remove anonymous users? [Y/n] {ENTER}

Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n] {ENTER}

Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n] {ENTER}

Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n] {ENTER}

That’s it. Let’s continue with PHP.

5-Installing PHP

sudo apt-get install php libapache2-mod-php php-mysql php-curl php-gd php-intl php-pear php-imagick php-imap php-mcrypt php-memcache php-pspell php-recode php-sqlite3 php-tidy php-xmlrpc php-xsl php-mbstring php-gettext

Let’s restart apache2:

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart  

Then we are going to login with root by typing:

sudo -i 

Next, we are going to download composer: (if curl not install please install it- apt install curl

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php   

Then we are going to move composer to another folder:

mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

cd /var/www/

Alright, time to download snipe-it:(if git not install please install first –apt install git)

git clone https://github.com/snipe/snipe-it snipeit

cd snipeit/

Finally we replace .env.example with .env:

cp .env.example .env

6-Configuring the MySQL Database

mysql -u root -p

Now you need to run a couple of commands, make sure to use the EXACT commands like in the box below, replace “your username” and “yourpw” with your own username and password:

    mysql> create database snipeit;
    mysql> CREATE USER 'yourusername'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'yourpw';
    mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON snipeit.* TO 'yourusername'@'localhost';
    mysql> flush privileges;
    mysql> exit

7-Editing the .env file

nano .env

8-Adjusting permissions

chown -R www-data:www-data storage public/uploads

chmod -R 775 storage

chmod -R 755 public/uploads

9-Installing PHP dependencies

apt-get install -y git unzip php php-mcrypt php-curl php-mysql php-gd php-ldap php-zip php-mbstring php-xml

apt-get install php-bcmath

10-Installing Composer & generating our App Key

composer install --no-dev --prefer-source

php artisan key:generate

11-Editing configuration files and wrapping up

sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/snipeit.example.com.conf

And paste the text into the box below:

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin [email protected]
<Directory /var/www/snipeit/public>
        Require all granted
        AllowOverride All
   </Directory>
    DocumentRoot /var/www/snipeit/public
    ServerName YOURSERVERIP
   #Redirect permanent / https://snipeit.your-server-fqdn.com/
        ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/snipeIT.error.log
        CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

Make sure to replace YOURSERVERIP with, well, your server IP.

Press CTRL+O to save and CTRL+X to exit.

sudo a2ensite snipeit.example.com.conf
sudo a2enmod rewrite
sudo systemctl restart apache2

sudo a2dissite 000-default.conf

sudo service apache2 restart

Change directory

cd /etc/apache2/sites-available

sudo cp 000-default.conf 000-default.confTEMP

sudo rm 000-default.conf

Already and finally wrapping it up with:

sudo phpenmod mcrypt
sudo phpenmod mbstring
sudo a2enmod rewrite
sudo service apache2 restart

12-Setup with the Web Browser

Ignore the File Owner warning, this seems to be a bug and will probably be fixed in an update. Click on Next: Create Database Tables.

You will likely get an error:

Don’t panic, just refresh the page by hitting F5

Click on Next: Create User

Finalize everything to your liking, click F5 if you get the error again.

And congratulations