Running Cachet - Open Source Status Page System - on Linux
16#Cachet #StatusPage #Linux
Full steps can be found at https://i12bretro.github.io/tutorials...
What is Cachet?
Cachet is a beautiful and powerful open source status page system. - https://github.com/CachetHQ/Cachet
Installation
01. Log into the Linux device
02. Run the following commands in a terminal window:
update software respositories
sudo apt update
install available software updates
sudo apt upgrade -y
install prerequisites
sudo apt install git openssl curl wget zip composer -y
install Apache HTTPD and MySQL
sudo apt install apache2 mariadb-server mariadb-client -y
install PHP components
sudo apt install php7.3 libapache2-mod-php7.3 php7.3-curl php7.3-tokenizer php7.3-ldap php7.3-cli php7.3-json php7.3-gd php7.3-mbstring php7.3-mysql php7.3-xml php7.3-zip php7.3-bcmath php7.3-fpm -y
configure the MySQL database
sudo su
mysql_secure_installation
03. Press Enter to login as root
04. Type Y and press Enter to set a root password, type the password twice to confirm
05. Type Y and press Enter to remove anonymous users
06. Type Y and press Enter to disallow root login remotely
07. Type Y and press Enter to remove the test database
08. Type Y and press Enter to reload privilege tables
09. Run the following command to login into MySQL:
mysql -u root -p
10. Authenticate with the root password set earlier
11. Run the following commands to create the Cachet database and database user
CREATE DATABASE cachet;
GRANT ALL ON cachet.* to 'cachet_rw'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'C@ch3t!!';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;
exit
12. Continue with the following commands:
clone cachet from github
sudo git clone https://github.com/cachethq/Cachet.git /var/www/cachet
change directories to cachet
cd /var/www/cachet
create a copy of the sample .env file
sudo cp /var/www/cachet/.env.example /var/www/cachet/.env
edit the .env file
sudo nano /var/www/cachet/.env
13. Edit the following environment variables as needed
APP_ENV=production
APP_DEBUG=false
APP_URL=http://localhost/cachet
APP_TIMEZONE=America/New_York
APP_KEY=
DEBUGBAR_ENABLED=false
DB_DRIVER=mysql
DB_HOST=localhost
DB_UNIX_SOCKET=false
DB_DATABASE=cachet
DB_USERNAME=cache_rw
DB_PASSWORD=C@ch3t!!
DB_PORT=null
DB_PREFIX=null
CACHE_DRIVER=database
SESSION_DRIVER=database
QUEUE_DRIVER=database
CACHET_EMOJI=false
MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=smtp.i12bretro.local
MAIL_PORT=25
MAIL_USERNAME=null
MAIL_PASSWORD=null
MAIL_ADDRESS=null
MAIL_NAME="Cachet"
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=null
REDIS_HOST=null
REDIS_DATABASE=null
REDIS_PORT=null
GITHUB_TOKEN=null
14. Press CTRL+O, Enter, CTRL+X to write the changes to .env
15. Continue with the following commands:
set the owner of the cachet directory
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/cachet
setup composer working directory
sudo mkdir /var/www/.composer
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/.composer
install dependencies with composer
sudo -u www-data composer install --no-dev -o
generate app key, type yes to confirm generating a new key
sudo php artisan key:generate
run cachet install, answer No and then Yes
sudo php artisan cachet:install
create cachet apache configuration
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/cachet.conf
16. Paste the following configuration into cachet.conf
Alias /cachet "/var/www/cachet/public"
≪Directory /var/www/cachet/public≫
Require all granted
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
≪/Directory≫
17. Press CTRL+O, Enter, CTRL+X to write the changes to cachet.conf
18. Run the following command to enable the cachet site
enable rewrite module
sudo a2enmod rewrite
enable the cachet site
sudo a2ensite cachet
restart the apache2 service
sudo systemctl restart apache2
Cachet Web Installer
01. Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP/cachet/setup
02. The Cachet setup screen should be displayed
03. Set the Cache, Queue and Session drivers to Database
....Full steps can be found on GitHub [link at the top]
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