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How to install InvoiceNinja

  • invoiceNinja,
  • invoice-generator,
  • webapp,
  • billing-software

What is InvoiceNinja ?

InvoiceNinja is a opensource billing web-application which can generate invoices. It have many options like manage inventory, pycharts, sales of a day etc. InvoiceNinja have it’s own paid version also. In the opensource version it will have a watermark of InvoiceNinja for generating invoices.

System requirements

  • LAMP

Follow the commands

Make the following changes on the php config files which is php.

sudo vim /etc/php/7.2/apache2/php.ini

file_uploads = On
allow_url_fopen = On
short_open_tag = On
memory_limit = 256M
upload_max_filesize = 100M
max_execution_time = 360
date.timezone = Asia/Kolkata

Restart apache server

sudo service apache2 restart

Create a database for InvoiceNinja

mysql -u root -p

create database invoiceninja;

Install curl and git if you don’t have

sudo apt install curl git
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | sudo php -- --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer

Go to the localhost directory

cd /var/www/html
sudo git clone https://github.com/invoiceninja/invoiceninja.git
cd /var/www/html/invoiceninja
sudo composer install

If you don’t have composer just install it

Run these permissions in the folder where your InvoiceNinja is placed

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/invoiceninja/
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/invoiceninja/

Create new apache conf file

sudo vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/invoiceninja.conf

Paste this in the conf file

<VirtualHost *:80>
     ServerAdmin admin@example.com
     DocumentRoot /var/www/html/invoiceninja/public
     ServerName example.com
     ServerAlias www.example.com

     <Directory /var/www/html/invoiceninja/public>
        Options +FollowSymlinks
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
     </Directory>

     ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
     CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

</VirtualHost>

Check the document root given as correct with your respective Server name the domain name like thing we added for our localhost, So we can access the installation of InvoiceNinja there

So we have to add rule that example.com to our localhost

127.0.0.1	localhost
127.0.1.1	X510UNR
<your ip>	example.com

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters

Add your ip there, Your ip can be found by the command ‘ifconfig’. In ifconfig In ‘wlp2s0’ section there will be ‘inet addr’ after that will be your ip.

Enable the InvoiceNinja Conf File and Rewrite Module

sudo a2ensite invoiceninja.conf
sudo a2enmod rewrite

Restart apache

sudo service apache2 restart

Now the installation is finished. Open the browser and go to example.com you can find the setup page of InvoiceNinja. Give the respective details and start installation. It will take some time to complete the installation.