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Installing Monica on Ubuntu

Ubuntu

Monica can run on Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver).

Prerequisites

Monica depends on the following:

Apache: If it doesn't come pre-installed with your server, follow the instructions here to setup Apache and config the firewall.

Git: Git should come pre-installed with your server. If it's not, install it with:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y git

PHP 7.3+:

First add this PPA repository:

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

Then install php 7.3 with these extensions:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y php7.3 php7.3-cli php7.3-common php7.3-fpm \
    php7.3-json php7.3-opcache php7.3-mysql php7.3-mbstring php7.3-zip \
    php7.3-bcmath php7.3-intl php7.3-xml php7.3-curl php7.3-gd php7.3-gmp

Composer: After you're done installing PHP, you'll need the Composer dependency manager.

cd /tmp
curl -s https://getcomposer.org/installer -o composer-setup.php
sudo php composer-setup.php --install-dir=/usr/local/bin/ --filename=composer
rm -f composer-setup.php

(or you can follow instruction on getcomposer.org page)

Mysql: Install Mysql 5.7. Note that this only installs the package, but does not setup Mysql. This is done later in the instructions:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y mysql-server

Types of databases

The official Monica installation uses Mysql as the database system and this is the only official system we support. While Laravel technically supports PostgreSQL and SQLite, we can't guarantee that it will work fine with Monica as we've never tested it. Feel free to read Laravel's documentation on that topic if you feel adventurous.

Installation steps

Once the softwares above are installed:

1. Clone the repository

You may install Monica by simply cloning the repository. In order for this to work with Apache, you need to clone the repository in a specific folder:

cd /var/www
git clone https://github.com/monicahq/monica.git

You should check out a tagged version of Monica since master branch may not always be stable. Find the latest official version on the release page:

cd /var/www/monica
git checkout tags/v2.2.1

2. Setup the database

Log in with the root account to configure the database.

mysql -u root -p

Create a database called 'monica'.

CREATE DATABASE monica;

Create a user called 'monica' and its password 'strongpassword'.

CREATE USER 'monica'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'strongpassword';

We have to authorize the new user on the monica db so that he is allowed to change the database.

GRANT ALL ON monica.* TO 'monica'@'localhost';

And finally we apply the changes and exit the database.

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
exit

3. Configure Monica

cd /var/www/monica then run these steps:

  1. cp .env.example .env to create your own version of all the environment variables needed for the project to work.
  2. Update .env to your specific needs. Don't forget to set DB_USERNAME and DB_PASSWORD with the settings used behind. You'll need to configure a mailserver for registration & reminders to work correctly.
  3. Run composer install --no-interaction --no-suggest --no-dev to install all packages.
  4. Run php artisan key:generate to generate an application key. This will set APP_KEY with the right value automatically.
  5. Run php artisan setup:production -v to run the migrations, seed the database and symlink folders.
  6. Optional: Setup the queues with Redis, Beanstalk or Amazon SQS: see optional instruction of generic installation
  7. Optional: Setup the access tokens to use the API follow optional instruction of generic installation

4. Configure cron job

Monica requires some background processes to continuously run. The list of things Monica does in the background is described here. Basically those crons are needed to send reminder emails and check if a new version is available. To do this, setup a cron that runs every minute that triggers the following command php artisan schedule:run.

Create a new /etc/cron.d/monica file with:

echo "* * * * * sudo -u www-data php /var/www/monica/artisan schedule:run" | sudo tee /etc/cron.d/monica

5. Configure Apache webserver

  1. Give proper permissions to the project directory by running:
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/monica
sudo chmod -R 775 /var/www/monica/storage
  1. Enable the rewrite module of the Apache webserver:
sudo a2enmod rewrite
  1. Configure a new monica site in apache by doing:
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/monica.conf

Then, in the nano text editor window you just opened, copy the following - swapping the **YOUR IP ADDRESS/DOMAIN** with your server's IP address/associated domain:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName **YOUR IP ADDRESS/DOMAIN**

    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    DocumentRoot /var/www/monica/public

    <Directory /var/www/monica/public>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
    </Directory>

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
  1. Apply the new .conf file and restart Apache. You can do that by running:
sudo a2dissite 000-default.conf
sudo a2ensite monica.conf

# Enable php7.3 fpm, and restart apache
sudo a2enmod proxy_fcgi setenvif
sudo a2enconf php7.3-fpm
sudo service php7.3-fpm restart
sudo service apache2 restart

Final step

The final step is to have fun with your newly created instance, which should be up and running to http://localhost.