Akaunting is a free, open source and online accounting software designed for small businesses and freelancers. It is built with modern technologies such as Laravel, Bootstrap, jQuery and RESTful API. Akaunting's source is on GitHub. This guide will show you how to install Akaunting on a fresh CentOS 7 Hostazor instance.
Requirements
- PHP 5.6.4 or higher with the following PHP extensions:
PDOOpenSSLMbstringTokenizerXMLZipcURL
- MariaDB
- Nginx
Check the CentOS version.
cat /etc/centos-release # CentOS Linux release 7.4.1708 (Core) Create a new non-root user account with sudo access and switch to it.
useradd -c "John Doe" johndoe && passwd johndoe usermod -aG wheel johndoe su - johndoe NOTE: Replace johndoe with your username.
Set up the timezone.
timedatectl list-timezones sudo timedatectl set-timezone 'Region/City' Ensure that your system is up to date.
sudo yum update -y Install necessary packages.
sudo yum install -y curl git wget vim unzip bash-completion Disable SELinux.
sudo setenforce 0 Enable the EPEL repository.
sudo rpm -Uvh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm Install PHP
Setup the Webtatic YUM repo.
sudo rpm -Uvh https://mirror.webtatic.com/yum/el7/webtatic-release.rpm Install PHP and required PHP extensions.
sudo yum install -y php72w php72w-cli php72w-fpm php72w-common php72w-mbstring php72w-xml php72w-mysql php72w-pgsql php72w-sqlite3 php72w-zip php72w-curl Check the version.
php --version Start and enable php-fpm.
sudo systemctl start php-fpm.service sudo systemctl enable php-fpm.service Install MariaDB
Install MariaDB.
sudo vim /etc/yum.repos.d/MariaDB.repo # Copy/paste this to the /etc/yum.repos.d/MariaDB.repo file [mariadb] name = MariaDB baseurl = https://yum.mariadb.org/10.2/centos7-amd64 gpgkey=https://yum.mariadb.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-MariaDB gpgcheck=1 sudo yum install -y MariaDB-server MariaDB-client Check the version.
mysql --version Start and enable MariaDB.
sudo systemctl start mariadb.service sudo systemctl enable mariadb.service Run the mysql_secure_installation script to improve the security of your MariaDB installation.
sudo mysql_secure_installation Log into MariaDB as the root user.
mysql -u root -p # Enter password: Create a new MariaDB database and user. Remember the credentials for this new user.
CREATE DATABASE dbname; GRANT ALL ON dbname.* TO 'username' IDENTIFIED BY 'password'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES; EXIT; Install Nginx
Install Nginx.
sudo yum install -y nginx Check the version.
sudo nginx -v Start and enable Nginx.
sudo systemctl start nginx.service sudo systemctl enable nginx.service Configure Nginx. Run sudo vim /etc/nginx/conf.d/akaunting.conf and populate the file with the following configuration.
server { listen 80;listen [::]:80;server_name example.com;root /var/www/akaunting;index index.php index.html;location / { try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;}location ~ \.php${ fastcgi_index index.php;try_files $uri =404;include fastcgi_params;fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;} }
Test the configuration.
sudo nginx -t Reload Nginx.
sudo systemctl reload nginx.service Install Akaunting
Create a document root directory.
sudo mkdir -p /var/www/akaunting Change ownership of the /var/www/akaunting directory to johndoe.
sudo chown -R johndoe:johndoe /var/www/akaunting Download the latest stable Akaunting software and unzip it.
cd /var/www/akaunting curl -O -J -L https://akaunting.com/download.php?version=latest unzip Akaunting_1.1.15-Stable.zip rm Akaunting_1.1.15-Stable.zip Change ownership of the /var/www/akaunting directory to nginx.
sudo chown -R nginx:nginx /var/www/akaunting Run sudo vim /etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf and set the user and group to nginx. Initially, it will be set to apache.
sudo vim /etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf # user = nginx # group = nginx Restart php-fpm.
sudo systemctl restart php-fpm.service Launch the installer by opening your domain name/IP address in your web browser and fill in the required information. After that, Akaunting software will be installed on your server.