Install GLPI on Fedora 26 Minimal

[mlnews]

Any screenshots of the final web interface?

[black3dynamite]

Login Screen

[black3dynamite]

Home Page for the glpi account

[black3dynamite]

Home page for the post-only account

[JaredBusch]

@black3dynamite said in Install GLPI on Fedora 26 Minimal:

sudo mysql_secure_installation

Create GLPI database

mysql -u root -p
create database glpidb;
create user glpiuser;
grant all on glpidb.* to 'glpiuser'@'localhost' identified by 'glpiuserpw';
flush privileges;
exit

Don't do it that way. It makes thing more prone to user error.

This is a better way to handle it with minimal user interaction on the command line.

Use big bold print (you can use a ### on a new line to make it a title/supersize) to tell the user to change these values from your default example. Like this:

Change the default password of glpiuserpw and somesecurerootpassword to something private

#Create a database and a user to access it.
mysql -e "CREATE DATABASE glpidb;"
mysql -e "CREATE USER 'glpiuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'glpiuserpw';"
mysql -e "GRANT ALL ON glpidb.* TO 'glpiuser'@'localhost';"
mysql -e "FLUSH PRIVILEGES;"

#Secure mariadb. These commands do what mysql_secure_installation does interactively
mysql -e "UPDATE mysql.user SET Password=PASSWORD('somesecurerootpassword') WHERE User='root';"
mysql -e "DELETE FROM mysql.user WHERE User='root' AND Host NOT IN ('localhost', '127.0.0.1', '::1');"
mysql -e "DELETE FROM mysql.user WHERE User='';"
mysql -e "DROP DATABASE test;"
mysql -e "FLUSH PRIVILEGES;"

[JaredBusch]

@black3dynamite said in Install GLPI on Fedora 26 Minimal:

You can manually download the tarball packages or use git (I preferred using git)
Using tarball packages

cd /tmp
wget https://github.com/glpi-project/glpi/releases/download/9.1.6/glpi-9.1.6.tgz
tar -zxvf glpi-9.1.6.tgz
sudo cp -rp glpi /var/www/html/glpi
sudo chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/glpi
cd /var/www/html/glpi

-OR-

Using git

sudo git clone https://github.com/glpi-project/glpi.git /var/www/html/glpi
cd /var/www/html/glpi
sudo wget https://getcomposer.org/composer.phar
sudo php composer.phar install --no-dev
sudo chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/glpi

Does GLPI provide an in application updater? If not, don't even provide instruction for something like a tarball when there is a git repository choice. Git can be updated simply but tarball downloads require users to interact too much and break things. Always.

If a user doesn't like git and is smart enough to think that deeply, they can find the alternate instructions on their own on the developer's website.

[Emad R]

@mlnews said in Install GLPI on Fedora 26 Minimal:

Any screenshots of the final web interface?

http://demo.glpi-project.org/

[black3dynamite]

Based on @JaredBusch comments, I've modified the instructions about installing glpi using git and setting up the database.
Thanks, @JaredBusch

[JaredBusch]

@black3dynamite said in Install GLPI on Fedora 26 Minimal:

Based on @JaredBusch comments, I've modified the instructions about installing glpi using git and setting up the database.
Thanks, @JaredBusch

Just a bit of experience talking after posting so many guides here.

[dafyre]

Does GLPI still do Helpdesk stuff too? We used it at my last job for a while, it wasn't terrible, but require d a little more clicking around, IIRC.

[DustinB3403]

@dafyre said in Install GLPI on Fedora 26 Minimal:

Does GLPI still do Helpdesk stuff too? We used it at my last job for a while, it wasn't terrible, but require d a little more clicking around, IIRC.

It appears to have a help desk built in.