Self-hosted Asset Management System with Snipe-IT on Windows
21#SnipeIT #AssetManagement #Windows
Full steps can be found at https://i12bretro.github.io/tutorials...
01. Download XAMPP https://sourceforge.net/projects/xamp...
02. Download Snipe-IT https://github.com/snipe/snipe-it/rel...
03. Download Microsoft Visual C++ https://aka.ms/vs/16/release/vc_redis...
04. Download Composer https://getcomposer.org/Composer-Setu...
05. Install Microsoft Visual C++
06. Right click the downloaded XAMPP .zip file ≫ Extract All...
07. Right click the downloaded Snipe-IT .zip file ≫ Extract All...
08. Rename the extracted folder snipe-it
09. Cut the snipe-it folder inside the XAMPP directory
10. Copy the extracted XAMPP directory to a safe location to run from, C:\Program Files for example
11. Run XAMPP/setup_xampp.bat to update the configuration files with the new server location
12. Navigate to XAMPP/php and edit php.ini
13. Find the following line and remove the ; to uncomment them
extension=ldap
14. Save the changes to php.ini
15. Navigate to XAMPP/apache/conf and edit httpd.conf
16. Paste the following configuration at the bottom of the file, update the folder paths as needed
Alias /snipe-it "C:/Program Files/xampp/snipe-it/public/"
≪Directory "C:/Program Files/xampp/snipe-it/public"≫
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
≪/Directory≫
17. Save the changes to httpd.conf
18. Install Composer
19. Navigate to the XAMPP/snipe-it folder ≫ Right click in the white space ≫ Open PowerShell window here...
20. Run the following command to download dependencies
create a copy of the sample .env file
cp .\.env.example .\.env
install dependencies with composer
composer i --no-dev --prefer-source
generate app key, type yes to confirm generating a new key
php artisan key:generate
edit .env in notepad
notepad .\.env
21. Modifying the following key/value pairs in .env as needed
APP_ENV=production
APP_DEBUG=false
APP_KEY=SomethingSecure
APP_URL=http://debian/snipe_it
APP_TIMEZONE='America/New_York'
APP_LOCALE=en
DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_DATABASE=snipe_it
DB_USERNAME=snipe_it_rw
DB_PASSWORD=$nip3-IT!
MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=smtp.i12bretro.local
MAIL_PORT=25
MAIL_USERNAME=null
MAIL_PASSWORD=null
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=null
MAIL_FROM_ADDR=snipe-it@i12bretro.local
MAIL_FROM_NAME='Snipe-IT'
MAIL_REPLYTO_ADDR=snipe-it@i12bretro.local
MAIL_REPLYTO_NAME='Snipe-IT'
MAIL_AUTO_EMBED_METHOD='attachment'
22. Save the changes to .env
23. Run XAMPP/xampp-control.exe
24. Click the Start button next to Apache and MySQL
25. Navigate to XAMPP/mysql/bin
26. Hold the SHIFT key and right click in the white space ≫ Open PowerShell window here...
27. Type the following in the PowerShell window to setup the Snipe-IT database
.\mysql -u root
CREATE DATABASE snipe_it;
GRANT ALL ON snipe_it.* to 'snipe_it_rw'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '$nip3-IT!';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;
exit
28. Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP/snipe-it
29. Review the Pre-Flight Checks summary ≫ Click the Next: Create Database Tables button
30. Once the database tables are created, Click the Next: Create User button
31. Create a user by inputting a site name, first name, last name, email address, username and password ≫ Click the Next: Save User button
32. Welcome to Snipe-IT
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