Running Cachet – Open Source Status Page System – on Linux

May 10, 2024

#Cachet #StatusPage #Linux

Full steps can be found at https://i12bretro.github.io/tutorials/0561.html

What is Cachet?
Cachet is a beautiful and powerful open source status page system. – https://github.com/CachetHQ/Cachet

Installation
   01. Log into the Linux device
   02. 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 php7.3-fpm -y
         # configure the MySQL database
         sudo su
         mysql_secure_installation
   03. Press Enter to login as root
   04. Type Y and press Enter to set a root password, type the password twice to confirm
   05. Type Y and press Enter to remove anonymous users
   06. Type Y and press Enter to disallow root login remotely
   07. Type Y and press Enter to remove the test database
   08. Type Y and press Enter to reload privilege tables
   09. Run the following command to login into MySQL:
         mysql -u root -p
   10. Authenticate with the root password set earlier
   11. Run the following commands to create the Cachet database and database user
         CREATE DATABASE cachet;
         GRANT ALL ON cachet.* to ‘cachet_rw’@’localhost’ IDENTIFIED BY ‘C@ch3t!!’;
         FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
         EXIT;
         exit
   12. Continue with the following commands:
         # clone cachet from github
         sudo git clone https://github.com/cachethq/Cachet.git /var/www/cachet
         # change directories to cachet
         cd /var/www/cachet
         # create a copy of the sample .env file
         sudo cp /var/www/cachet/.env.example /var/www/cachet/.env
         # edit the .env file
         sudo nano /var/www/cachet/.env
   13. Edit the following environment variables as needed
         APP_ENV=production
         APP_DEBUG=false
         APP_URL=http://localhost/cachet
         APP_TIMEZONE=America/New_York
         APP_KEY=
         DEBUGBAR_ENABLED=false
         DB_DRIVER=mysql
         DB_HOST=localhost
         DB_UNIX_SOCKET=false
         DB_DATABASE=cachet
         DB_USERNAME=cache_rw
         DB_PASSWORD=C@ch3t!!
         DB_PORT=null
         DB_PREFIX=null
         CACHE_DRIVER=database
         SESSION_DRIVER=database
         QUEUE_DRIVER=database
         CACHET_EMOJI=false
         MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
         MAIL_HOST=smtp.i12bretro.local
         MAIL_PORT=25
         MAIL_USERNAME=null
         MAIL_PASSWORD=null
         MAIL_ADDRESS=null
         MAIL_NAME=”Cachet”
         MAIL_ENCRYPTION=null
         REDIS_HOST=null
         REDIS_DATABASE=null
         REDIS_PORT=null
         GITHUB_TOKEN=null
   14. Press CTRL+O, Enter, CTRL+X to write the changes to .env
   15. Continue with the following commands:
         # set the owner of the cachet directory
         sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/cachet
         # setup composer working directory
         sudo mkdir /var/www/.composer
         sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/.composer
         # install dependencies with composer
         sudo -u www-data composer install –no-dev -o
         # generate app key, type yes to confirm generating a new key
         sudo php artisan key:generate
         # run cachet install, answer No and then Yes
         sudo php artisan cachet:install
         # create cachet apache configuration
         sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/cachet.conf
   16. Paste the following configuration into cachet.conf
         Alias /cachet “/var/www/cachet/public”
         ≪Directory /var/www/cachet/public≫
         Require all granted
         Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
         AllowOverride All
         Order allow,deny
         Allow from all
         ≪/Directory≫
   17. Press CTRL+O, Enter, CTRL+X to write the changes to cachet.conf
   18. Run the following command to enable the cachet site
         # enable rewrite module
         sudo a2enmod rewrite
         # enable the cachet site
         sudo a2ensite cachet
         # restart the apache2 service
         sudo systemctl restart apache2

Cachet Web Installer
   01. Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP/cachet/setup
   02. The Cachet setup screen should be displayed
   03. Set the Cache, Queue and Session drivers to Database

….Full steps can be found on GitHub [link at the top]

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