What is Snipe-IT?
Snipe-IT is a Free Open Source (FOSS) project built on Laravel. Snipe-IT was made for IT asset management, to enable IT departments to track who has which laptop, when it was purchased, which software licenses and accessories are available, and so on. - https://snipe-it.readme.io/docs
Installation
Log into the Linux device
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 -y # configure the MySQL database sudo su mysql_secure_installation
Press Enter to login as root
Type Y and press Enter to set a root password, type the password twice to confirm
Type Y and press Enter to remove anonymous users
Type Y and press Enter to disallow root login remotely
Type Y and press Enter to remove the test database
Type Y and press Enter to reload privilege tables
Run the following command to login into MySQL:
mysql -u root -p
Authenticate with the root password set earlier
Run the following commands to create the Snipe-IT database and database user
CREATE DATABASE snipe_it; GRANT ALL ON snipe_it.* to 'snipe_it_rw'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '$nip3-IT!'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES; EXIT; exit
Continue with the following commands:
# clone snipe-it from github sudo git clone https://github.com/snipe/snipe-it /var/www/snipe-it # create a copy of the sample .env file sudo cp /var/www/snipe-it/.env.example /var/www/snipe-it/.env # edit the .env file sudo nano /var/www/snipe-it/.env
Edit the following environment variables as needed
APP_ENV=production
APP_DEBUG=false
APP_KEY=SomethingSecure
APP_URL=http://debian/snipe_it
APP_TIMEZONE='America/New_York'
APP_LOCALE=en
DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_DATABASE=snipe_it
DB_USERNAME=snipe_it_rw
DB_PASSWORD=$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'
Press CTRL+O, Enter, CTRL+X to write the changes to .env
Continue with the following commands:
# set the owner of the snipe-it directory sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/snipe-it # setup composer working directory sudo mkdir /var/www/.composer sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/.composer cd /var/www/snipe-it # install dependencies with composer sudo -u www-data composer install --no-dev --prefer-source # generate app key, type yes to confirm generating a new key sudo php artisan key:generate # create snipe-it apache configuration sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/snipe-it.conf
Paste the following configuration into snipe-it.conf
Alias /snipe-it "/var/www/snipe-it/public"
<Directory /var/www/snipe-it/public>
Allow From All
AllowOverride All
Options -Indexes
</Directory>
Press CTRL+O, Enter, CTRL+X to write the changes to snipe-it.conf
Run the following command to enable the snipe-it site
# enable rewrite module sudo a2enmod rewrite # enable the snipe-it site sudo a2ensite snipe-it # restart the apache2 service sudo systemctl restart apache2
Snipe-IT Web Installer
Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP/snipe-it
Review the Pre-Flight Checks summary > Click the Next: Create Database Tables button
Once the database tables are created, Click the Next: Create User button
Create a user by inputting a site name, first name, last name, email address, username and password > Click the Next: Save User button
Welcome to Snipe-IT
Source: https://snipe-it.readme.io/docs/installation