How to Install Attendize with Apache on Ubuntu Linux

Attendize is an open-source ticket management platform that helps users sell and manage tickets for events, concerts, and other occasions that require the audience to present tickets before entry.

Whether you’re creating a personal or company ticket management site, Attendize can help you build and manage your content on every device with its intuitive and powerful user and admin dashboard.

This brief tutorial will show students and new users how to install Attendize with Apache2, MariaDB, and PHP 7.2 support on Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04 LTS.

Some features of this platform include:

• Beautiful mobile friendly event pages.
• Easy attendee management – Refunds, Messaging etc.
• Data export – attendees list to XLS, CSV etc.
• Generate print friendly attendee list.
• Ability to manage unlimited organisers / events.
• Manage multiple organisers.
• Real-time event statistics.
• Customizable event pages.
• Multiple currency support.
• Quick and easy checkout process

When you’re ready, follow the steps below:

Install Apache2 HTTP Server on Ubuntu

Apache2 HTTP Server is the most popular web server in use today. since Attendize needs it go and install it on Ubuntu.

To install Apache2 HTTP on the Ubuntu server, run the commands below.

sudo apt update
sudo apt install apache2

After installing Apache2, the commands below can be used to stop, start and enable the Apache2 service to always start up with the server boots.

sudo systemctl stop apache2.service
sudo systemctl start apache2.service
sudo systemctl enable apache2.service

To test the Apache2 setup, open your browser and browse to the server hostname or IP address and you should see the Apache2 default test page as shown below. When you see that, then Apache2 is working as expected.

http://localhost

Install MariaDB Database Server

MariaDB database server is a great place to start when looking at open-source database servers to use with Attendize. To install MariaDB run the commands below.

sudo apt-get install mariadb-server mariadb-client

After installing MariaDB, the commands below can stop, start and enable the MariaDB service to start up when the server boots.

Run these on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

sudo systemctl stop mysql.service
sudo systemctl start mysql.service
sudo systemctl enable mysql.service

Run these on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

sudo systemctl stop mariadb.service
sudo systemctl start mariadb.service
sudo systemctl enable mariadb.service

After that, run the commands below to secure the MariaDB server by creating a root password and disallowing remote root access.

sudo mysql_secure_installation

When prompted, answer the questions below by following the guide.

• Enter current password for root (enter for none): Just press the Enter
• Set root password? [Y/n]: Y
• New password: Enter password
• Re-enter new password: Repeat password
• Remove anonymous users? [Y/n]: Y
• Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n]: Y
• Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n]:  Y
• Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n]:  Y

Restart MariaDB server

To test if MariaDB is installed, type the commands below to logon into the MariaDB server

sudo mysql -u root -p

Then type the password you created above to sign on. if successful, you should see MariaDB welcome message

Install PHP 7.2 and Related Modules

PHP 7.2 may not be available in Ubuntu default repositories. to install it, you will have to get it from third-party repositories.

Run the commands below to add the below third party repository to upgrade to PHP 7.2

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php

Then update and upgrade to PHP 7.2

sudo apt update

Next, run the commands below to install PHP 7.2 and related modules.

sudo apt install php7.2 libapache2-mod-php7.2 php7.2-common php7.2-curl php7.2-intl php7.2-mbstring php7.2-xmlrpc php7.2-mysql php7.2-gd php7.2-pgsql php7.2-xml php7.2-cli php7.2-zip

After installing PHP 7.2, run the commands below to open the PHP default config file for Apache2.

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

Then make the changes on the following lines below in the file and save. The value below is a great setting to apply in your environment.

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

After making the change above, save the file and close it.

After installing PHP and related modules, you must restart Apache2 to reload PHP configurations.

To restart Apache2, run the commands below

sudo systemctl restart apache2.service

To test PHP 7.2 settings with Apache2, create a phpinfo.php file in the Apache2 root directory by running the commands below

sudo nano /var/www/html/phpinfo.php

Then type the content below and save the file.

<?php phpinfo( ); ?>

Save the file. then browse to your server hostname followed by /phpinfo.php

http://localhost/phpinfo.php

You should see the PHP default test page.

Create Attendize Database

Now that you’ve installed all the packages required for Attendize to function, continue below to start configuring the servers. First, run the commands below to create a blank Attendize database.

To log on to the MariaDB database server, run the commands below.

sudo mysql -u root -p

Then create a database called attendize

CREATE DATABASE attendize;

Create a database user called attendizeuser with a new password

CREATE USER 'attendizeuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'new_password_here';

Then grant the user full access to the database.

GRANT ALL ON attendize.* TO 'attendizeuser'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION;

Finally, save your changes and exit.

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;

Download and Install Attendize

To get Attendize latest release you may want to use the GitHub repository… Install Composer, Curl and other dependencies to get started…

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

After installing curl and Composer above, change into the /temp directory. download and extract, move Attendize content to the Apache2 root directory… then install from there.

After that, use Composer to install its dependencies.

cd /tmp
wget https://github.com/Attendize/Attendize/archive/master.zip
unzip master.zip
sudo mv Attendize-master /var/www/attendize
cd /var/www/attendize
sudo cp .env.example .env
sudo composer install
sudo php artisan key:generate

Next, run the commands below to change the root folder permissions.

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/attendize/
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/attendize/

Configure Attendize Site

Next, configure the Apache2 configuration file for Attendize. This file will control how users access Attendize content. Run the commands below to create a new configuration file called attendize. conf

sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/attendize.conf

Then copy and paste the content below into the file and save it. Replace the highlighted line with your domain name and directory root location.

<VirtualHost *:80>
     ServerAdmin admin@example.com
     DocumentRoot /var/www/attendize
     ServerName example.com

     <Directory /var/www/attendize/>
          Options FollowSymlinks
          AllowOverride All
          Require all granted
     </Directory>

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

</VirtualHost>

Save the file and exit.

After configuring the VirtualHost above, enable it by running the commands below

Enable the Attendize Site and Rewrite Module

After configuring the VirtualHost above, enable it by running the commands below, then restart the Apache2 server.

sudo a2ensite attendize.conf
sudo a2enmod rewrite
sudo systemctl restart apache2.service

Next, open your browser, go to the URL., and continue with the installation.

http://example.com

You should see the Attendize installation wizard page. first, validate that all requirements are met.

After that, type in the database name, database user name, and password, then continue.

After that create the first account that will manage the platform.

After that, Attendize should be installed and ready to use.

Congratulations! you have learned how to install the Attendize Ticketing Platform on Ubuntu 18.04 | 16.04 LTS

Enjoy!

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