Centos8s Nginx

Installing Faveo Helpdesk Freelancer, paid and Enterprise on Cent OS 8 Stream

Faveo can run on CentOS-8-Stream.

Installation steps :

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
MySQL 8.0+ or 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

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-8.noarch.rpm
yum install -y https://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-8.rpm

dnf module install php:remi-8.1 -y
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 Mysql/MariaDB

The official Faveo installation uses Mysql 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 Mysql-8.0 and MariaDB-10.6. Note: The below steps only installs the package, but does not setup the database required by Faveo. This is done later in the instructions.

In CentOS-8-Stream mariadb-server-10.6 is available from the default Repo’s.So instead of downloading and adding other Repos you could simply install MariadDB-10.6 by running the following commands.

curl -LsS -O https://downloads.mariadb.com/MariaDB/mariadb_repo_setup
sudo bash mariadb_repo_setup --mariadb-server-version=10.6
sudo dnf install boost-program-options -y
sudo dnf module reset mariadb -y
sudo yum install MariaDB-server MariaDB-client MariaDB-backup
sudo systemctl enable --now mariadb
sudo systemctl start --now mariadb

Secure your MySql installation by executing the below command. Set Password for mysql root user, remove anonymous users, disallow remote root login, remove the test databases and finally reload the privilege tables.

mysql_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

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

5. Configure Nginx webserver

5.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

5.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)";
   }

5.c. Edit config file for PHP FPM using nano 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 (;) 
In CentOS-8-Stream-OS 8 you will find listen = /run/php-fpm/www.sock replace it (to) listen = 127.0.0.1:9000.

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.