FrontAccounting-2.4.7/C2/Installation-of-FrontAccounting-on-Linux-OS/English
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Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on Installation of FrontAccounting on Linux OS. |
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Learning Objectives: |
In this tutorial, we will learn to -
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System Requirements OS, Web Server and Versions |
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FrontAccounting
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FrontAccounting is a server based Accounting System.
So we will be using XAMPP to setup the web server on our machine. |
| [Firefox] | Open a web browser.
In the address bar, type this URL and press Enter. |
| [Firefox]Show XAMPP for all OS | This will take us to the XAMPP download page.
Here XAMPP is available to download for all operating systems. |
| [Firefox] Point to XAMPP download green button. | The latest version of XAMPP can be downloaded by clicking this green button. |
| Only narration | However, depending upon your software requirement, you may need a different version of XAMPP.
In my case I need XAMPP version 5.5.19 |
| [Firefox] | Scroll down and select XAMPP Linux. |
| [Firefox] Scroll and show the XAMPP versions | The redirected page will display all the XAMPP versions till date. |
| [Firefox] Highlight 5.5.19 | For this installation, I will select the XAMPP version 5.5.19 |
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Point to xampp-linux-x64-5.5.19-0-installer.run |
My system is a 64bit OS. So I will download, xampp-linux-x64-5.5.19-0-installer.run |
| Select save radio button | Now, click on the Save file button and then click on the OK button.
In my machine, it has been saved in the Downloads folder. |
| Open terminal by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T | Let’s open a terminal by pressing Ctrl + Alt + T keys together. |
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Type: cd Downloads [Enter] |
On the terminal, type the command
cd space Downloads and press Enter. This will change the current working directory to Downloads. |
| [Terminal] Type:
chmod +x xampp-linux-x64-5.5.19-0-installer.run |
Then type the command as shown and press Enter. |
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sudo ./xampp-linux-x64-5.5.19-0-installer.run |
Now to run the installer file, type the command as shown and press Enter.
Enter the admin password if prompted. |
| Setup Box opens. | Now the Setup wizard dialog box opens.
Click on the Next button whenever prompted and follow the installation steps as shown. |
| Uncheck Learn more about Bitnami for XAMPP check box >> Click on Next. | Uncheck Learn more about Bitnami for XAMPP check box.
Then continue by clicking on the Next button. |
| Uncheck Launch XAMPP check box >> Click on Finish. | Once the installation done, uncheck Launch XAMPP check box.
Lastly, click on Finish button. |
| Only Narration | Now we should check whether XAMPP is successfully installed on our machine or not. |
| sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start | In the terminal, start XAMPP service by typing
sudo space slash opt slash lampp slash lampp space start And press Enter. |
| Type the admin password at the prompt. | Type the admin password when prompted and press Enter. |
| Highlight the message Starting XAMPP for Linux on the terminal.
Highlight Mysql in the starting XAMPP for Linux command |
You may get a message as shown here.
This indicates that XAMPP is installed on your system and you have started the service. |
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XAMPP not installed Show screenshot. |
In case you get a message saying, Command not found, then XAMPP is not installed on your machine. |
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Error Messages |
You may get some error messages like:
“Apache shutdown unexpectedly” or “Port 80 in use for Apache Server” or “Unable to connect to any of the specified MySQL hosts for MySQL database.” This is because the default ports allotted to Apache and MySQL is taken by another software. |
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Default port |
Default port number for Apache is 80 and for MySQL is 3306. |
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Change in Ports |
To change these ports, refer to the Additional Reading Material of this tutorial.
And allot the proper port numbers before proceeding further. For eg: 8080 |
| Open Firefox >> In the address bar type localhost >> press Enter. | Now, open Firefox web browser.
In the address bar, type localhost and press Enter. We should be able to see the XAMPP screen. |
| Select English if prompted. | If prompted for language selection, select English. |
| Only Narration | We are now in the XAMPP homepage. |
| In the left side menu >> click on phpinfo | In the menu at the left of the screen, click on PHPinfo. |
| Type Ctrl+F >> type DOCUMENT_ROOT in the search window>> Press Enter | Now press Ctrl + F keys and search for DOCUMENT underscore ROOT. |
| Point to Apache Environment. | It will be found in the table Apache Environment. |
| Only narration | The value of DOCUMENT underscore ROOT will be either
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| Point or highlight /opt/lampp/htdocs. | In my machine, it is slash opt slash lampp slash htdocs. |
| Only narration | Please make a note of this path.
We are going to install FrontAccounting here. |
| Open browser>> go to this URL:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/frontaccounting/files/FrontAccounting%202.4/2.4.7/ >> click on frontaccounting-2.4.7.tar.gz |
Let's start downloading Front Accounting.
Open another tab in the web browser and go to this URL. Click on frontaccounting-2.4.7.tar.gz |
| Download window | Immediately, the download begins.
Click on the Save File button and then click on the OK button. |
| Switch back to terminal: | Switch back to the terminal. |
| Type sudo tar -zxvf frontaccounting-2.4.7.tar.gz | Next, we have to extract the contents of the tar.gz file that we downloaded.
So, type sudo space tar space hyphen zxvf space frontaccounting hyphen 2.4.7.tar.gz and press Enter. |
| Type the admin password at the prompt. | Type the admin password if prompted and press Enter. |
| Once extracted, I will rename the extracted FrontAccounting folder as account. | |
| To rename extracted frontaccounting folder as account | Type the command-
mv space frontaccounting space account and press Enter. |
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Folder Renaming |
Renaming of the folder name is optional, however.
It helps to identify multiple instances of FrontAccounting installed on a single machine. |
| Switch Back to the terminal. | |
| Type sudo mv account /opt/lampp/htdocs | Now we have to move the folder account into apache home directory.
To move account folder to apache home directory, type sudo space mv space account space /opt/lampp/htdocs/ and press Enter. |
| Type cd /opt/lampp/htdocs | Now, let’s go to the apache home directory.
To do that, type cd space /opt/lampp/htdocs/ and press Enter. |
| Type sudo chmod -R 777 account | To change account folder permission, type
sudo space chmod space -R space 777 space account slash and press Enter. |
| Only narration | We have successfully installed the XAMPP server.
Make sure that the FrontAccounting installer is in the web server’s root directory. |
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Adding admin user and Creating database |
Next we need to create a database for FrontAccounting to proceed further.
We will do this in phpmyadmin, which is the graphical user interface for MySQL It comes along with the XAMPP installation |
| Creating Database:
Click on phpmyadmin |
Let us go back to the XAMPP Page in the browser.
On the XAMPP page, in the menu at the left, click on phpMyadmin. |
| Click on Users accounts >> click on Add User account | Click on Users in the top menu and then click on Add User. |
| Type frontacc | In the new window that opens enter a username of your choice.
I will type frontacc as my username. |
| Select Local from the dropdown | From the Host drop-down list, select Local. |
| In Password textbox >> Type admin123 | Enter a password of your choice in the Password text-box.
I will type admin123 as my password. |
| Re-type admin123 | Type the same password in the Re-type textbox. |
| Point to the option | Do not click on Generate Password prompt for now. |
| Point to Create a database with the same name and grant all privileges | Under Database for user, we can see the option
Create database with the same name and grant all privileges. |
| Click on it >> Click on the Go button | We will check that option and scroll down.
Then click the Go button at the bottom right of the page. |
| Point to the frontacc database in the side pane | We see a message “You have added a new user” at the top of the window.
It means a new database with the name frontacc and with a user frontacc has been created. This username and password is only for Database login purpose. |
| Make a note of the username, password and database names.
These will be required later to complete the FrontAccounting installation. | |
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| Point | We now have XAMPP running and our database is ready.
We are now ready to proceed installing Front Accounting. |
| Go to the web browser >> URL >> localhost/account | In the web browser open a new tab.
In the address bar type localhost/account and press Enter. |
| Point | We can see the FrontAccounting webpage showing
Step 1: System Diagnostics Make sure that Select install wizard language is English. |
| Scroll down | Scroll down and click on Continue button at the bottom of the page. |
| Step 2: Database Server Settings | The title of the next web page is
Step 2: Database Server Settings. |
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database user as frontacc database password as admin123 database Name as frontacc |
Here, I’ll keep the server port as empty.
If you have changed the MySQL default port number other than 3306, then enter that port number here. Enter the following details which we have created earlier- database Name as frontacc database user as frontacc database password as admin123 |
| Click>>>Continue Button | Ignore the rest of options and click on Continue button at the bottom. |
| Step 5: Company Settings. | Next, you will need to put the details of your own company.
I will demonstrate how to do so. |
| Type in Company Name >> ST Company Pvt Ltd | In Company Name field, I will type ST Company Pvt Ltd. |
| Point to the Admin password | I will keep the Admin Login as admin.
Then I will type the Admin password as spoken. You can give any password of your choice. |
| Point to the Re-enter password | Re-enter the same password.
Remember this is the login password. |
| Click on the dropdown box >> select Charts of Accounts | Next we see two options for the Charts of Accounts.
I will select Standard new company American COA. |
| Point to the Select Default Language>> English | Select the Default Language as English. |
| Click on the Install button | Click on the Install button. |
| FrontAccounting page open
Point towards message |
We can see the final message on our screen, FrontAccounting ERP has been installed successfully.
Which confirms that our installation is successful. |
| Click on Click here to start | Click on the link, Click here to start to log-in to the FrontAccounting interface. |
| Login to FrontAccounting
User name as admin Password as spoken Company as ST Company Pvt. Ltd. |
In the log-in screen, enter the following details:
User name as admin Password as spoken Company as ST Company Pvt. Ltd. And click on the Login button. |
| Point to the various tabs | We are brought to the Front Accounting Administration page.
We can see various tabs on this page. We will learn how to use many of these later in this series. |
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