Centos Nginx

Installing Faveo Helpdesk Freelancer, paid and Enterprise on CentOS 7 with nginx

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Faveo can run on CentOS 7 .

Installation steps :

Faveo depends on the following:

  • Nginx
  • PHP 8.1+ with the following extensions: curl, dom, gd, json, mbstring, openssl, pdo_mysql, tokenizer, zip
  • MariaDB 10.6+
  • SSL ,Trusted CA Signed or Slef-Signed SSL

1. LAMP Installation

Follow the instructions here If you follow this step, no need to install Apache, PHP, MySQL separetely as listed below

2. Update your Packages and install some utility tools

Login as root user by typing the command below

sudo su

yum update -y && yum install unzip wget nano yum-utils curl openssl zip git -y

2.a Install php-8.1 Packages 

yum install -y https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm 
yum install -y https://mirror.webtatic.com/yum/el7/webtatic-release.rpm 
yum install -y http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm 

yum-config-manager --enable remi-php81
yum -y install php php-cli php-common php-fpm php-gd php-mbstring php-pecl-mcrypt php-mysqlnd php-odbc php-pdo php-xml  php-opcache php-imap php-bcmath php-ldap php-pecl-zip php-soap php-redis

2.b Install and run Nginx

Use the below steps to install and start Nginx

yum install -y nginx
systemctl start nginx
systemctl enable nginx

2.c Setting Up ionCube

wget http://downloads3.ioncube.com/loader_downloads/ioncube_loaders_lin_x86-64.tar.gz
tar xfz ioncube_loaders_lin_x86-64.tar.gz

Copy ioncube loader to Directory.

php -i | grep extension_dir
cp ioncube/ioncube_loader_lin_8.1.so /usr/lib64/php/modules 
sed -i '2 a zend_extension = "/usr/lib64/php/modules/ioncube_loader_lin_8.1.so"' /etc/php.ini
sed -i "s/max_execution_time = .*/max_execution_time = 300/" /etc/php.ini

2.d Install and run MariaDB

The official Faveo installation uses MariaDB as the database system and this is the only official system we support. While Laravel technically supports PostgreSQL and SQLite, we can’t guarantee that it will work fine with Faveo as we’ve never tested it. Feel free to read Laravel’s documentation on that topic if you feel adventurous.

Note: Currently Faveo supports only MariaDB-10.6.

Create a new repo file /etc/yum.repos.d/mariadb.repo and add the below code changing the base url according to the operating system version and architecture.

nano /etc/yum.repos.d/mariadb.repo

[mariadb]
name = MariaDB
baseurl = http://yum.mariadb.org/10.6/centos73-amd64/
gpgkey=https://yum.mariadb.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-MariaDB
gpgcheck=1

Note: The below steps only installs the package, but does not setup the database required by Faveo. This is done later in the instructions.

yum install MariaDB-server MariaDB-client
systemctl enable mysql.service
systemctl start mysql.service

Secure your MySql installation by executing the below command. Set Password for mysql root user by providing a strong password combination of Uppercase, Lowercase, alphanumeric and special symbols, remove anonymous users, disallow remote root login, remove the test databases and finally reload the privilege tables.

mariadb-secure-installation

phpMyAdmin(Optional): Install phpMyAdmin. This is optional step. phpMyAdmin gives a GUI to access and work with Database

yum install phpmyadmin

Once the softwares above are installed:

3. Upload Faveo

Please download Faveo Helpdesk from https://billing.faveohelpdesk.com and upload it to below directory

mkdir -p /var/www/faveo
cd /var/www/faveo

3.a Extracting the Faveo-Codebase zip file

unzip "Filename.zip" -d /var/www/faveo

4. Setup the database

Log in with the root account to configure the database.

mysql -u root -p

Create a database called ‘faveo’.

CREATE DATABASE faveo;

Create a user called ‘faveo’ and its password ‘strongpassword’.

CREATE USER 'faveo'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'strongpassword';

We have to authorize the new user on the faveo db so that he is allowed to change the database.

GRANT ALL ON faveo.* TO 'faveo'@'localhost';

And finally we apply the changes and exit the database.

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
exit

<a id=”5-configure-nginx-webserver-“ name=”5-configure-nginx-webserver-></a>

5. Configure Nginx webserver

a. Give proper permissions to the project directory by running:

chown -R nginx:nginx /var/www/faveo
cd /var/www/faveo
find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;

By default SELINUX will be in Enforcing mode run the follwing command to switch it to Permissive mode and restart the machine once in order to take effect.

sed -i 's/SELINUX=enforcing/SELINUX=permissive/g' /etc/selinux/config
reboot -f

b. Edit nginx.conf file and replace the default server block code with the following/

nano /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

Replace the default server block code with the following and you can also replace example.com with your Domain name.

server {
    listen   80;
    server_name  example.com www.example.com;

# note that these lines are originally from the "location /" block
root   /var/www/faveo/public;
index index.php index.html index.htm;


location ~ \.php$ {
    try_files $uri =404;
    fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
    fastcgi_index index.php;
    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
    include fastcgi_params;
}

location / {
            	try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}

location ~* \.html$ {
    expires -1;
}

location ~* \.(css|gif|jpe?g|png)$ {
    expires 1M;
    add_header Pragma public;
    add_header Cache-Control "public, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate";
}

gzip on;
gzip_http_version 1.1;
gzip_vary on;
gzip_comp_level 6;
gzip_proxied any;
gzip_types application/atom+xml
           application/javascript
           application/json
           application/vnd.ms-fontobject
           application/x-font-ttf
           application/x-web-app-manifest+json
           application/xhtml+xml
           application/xml
           font/opentype
           image/svg+xml
           image/x-icon
           text/css
           #text/html -- text/html is gzipped by default by nginx
           text/plain
           text/xml;
gzip_buffers 16 8k;
gzip_disable "MSIE [1-6]\.(?!.*SV1)";
   }

c. Edit config file for PHP FPM using vim editor

nano /etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf

You have to replace these lines.

user = nginx

group = nginx

listen.owner = nobody (to) listen.owner = nginx

listen.group = nobody (to) listen.group = nginx

Uncomment listen = 127.0.0.1:9000 by removing (;)

Restart PHP-FPM and NGINX

systemctl start php-fpm.service
systemctl enable php-fpm.service
systemctl restart nginx

6. Configure cron job

Faveo requires some background processes to continuously run. Basically those crons are needed to receive emails To do this, setup a cron that runs every minute that triggers the following command php artisan schedule:run.

Create a new /etc/cron.d/faveo file with:

echo "* * * * * nginx /bin/php /var/www/faveo/artisan schedule:run 2>&1" | sudo tee /etc/cron.d/faveo

7. Redis Installation

Redis is an open-source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache and message broker.

This is an optional step and will improve system performance and is highly recommended.

Redis installation documentation

8. SSL Installation

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a standard security technology for establishing an encrypted link between a server and a client. Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority.

This is an optional step and will improve system security and is highly recommended.

Let’s Encrypt SSL installation documentation

9. Install Faveo

At this point if the domainname is propagated properly with your server’s IP you can open Faveo in browser just by entering your domainname. You can also check the Propagation update by Visiting this site www.whatsmydns.net.

Now you can install Faveo via GUI Wizard or CLI

10. Final step

The final step is to have fun with your newly created instance, which should be up and running to http://localhost or the domain you have configured Faveo with.

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