CentOS 7

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This guide is created for new unmanaged VPS from A2hosting.com
OS: CentOS 7
Ram: 1GB
Hard drive: 20 GB
Bandwidth: 2 TB
INITIAL SETUP
1.Login into A2 account, service to find the following info:
IP or hostname (if the domain name has been set up/registered)
Ssh username
SSH password
SSH port
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2. Connect to server using ssh. If you are on a Mac, use Terminal and type in the following command. If you are on a Window, you can use CMD (if CMD does not work, google “connecting to ssh on Window” to find the program
ssh -p xxxx [email protected] zz.zz.zz.zz
: xxxx: port number
yy: username
zz.zz.zz.zz: ip or hostname
    Select “Yes” if asked to continue connecting
    If there is a problem, follow this link: https://www.a2hosting.com/kb/getting-started-guide/accessing-your-account/using-ssh-secure-shell​
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3. To secure your ssh and your server, set up new user and deactivate root login via SSH by following steps 2, 3, and 5 in this tutorial:
    https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/initial-server-setup-with-centos-7​
    Install sudo by:
yum –y install sudo
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4. Optional: Setting up time by following this link: https://www.tecmint.com/set-time-timezone-and-synchronize-time-using-timedatectl-command/​
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5. Following this link to set up LAMP stack:
In step 3, replace this part: 
with:
yum –y install firewalld
systemctl start firewalld
firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-service=http
firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-service=https
firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-port=7822/tcp
firewall-cmd –reload
systemctl enable firewalld
 In step 4: choose PHP7.2
 Follow this tutorial from steps 1-5, make sure instruction for specific steps as indicated above
​https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/centos-lamp-server-apache-mysql-php/​
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6. Install the following packages to prepare for Open enventory
yum -y install php-mysql php-gd php-mbstring php-pear zlib-devel ghostscript ImageMagick libreoffice
systemctl restart httpd
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7. Create a “download” folder; download OE (get the exact link from website: https://sourceforge.net/projects/enventory/files/?source=navbar ); unzip OE and copy to the right location:
mkdir download
cd download
wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/enventory/files/open_enventory_2018-02-21.zip
unzip open_enventory_2018-02-21.zip
cp -rp open_enventory_2018-02-21/. /var/www/html/oe
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8. Go to http://xx.xx.xx.xx/oe​
With xx.xx.xx.xx: is the server’s ip address
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9. The OE website should load like screenshot below
Database: choose the desired database’s name
Username: root
Password: use the mariadb password that was set up in step 5 of this tutorial
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10. If successful, this page will load:
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11. Modify .htaccess file
vi /var/www/html/oe/.htaccess
Modify the content of the file as in this screenshot. Important: these setting is for the server with configuration as indicated in the top of this tutorial
Save the file (hit Esc, type “:wq” and then Enter) and restart httpd service
systemctl restart httpd
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12. Modify mysqld config:
vi /etc/my.cnf.d/server.cnf
Right after [mysqld], add:
sql_mode = NO_ZERO_IN_DATE,NO_ZERO_DATE,ERROR_FOR_DIVISION_BY_ZERO,NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER,NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION 
max_allowed_packet = 64M # (or higher) 
innodb_buffer_pool_size = 1024M # to about 50% of the available memory
Save the file (hit Esc, type “:wq” and then Enter) and restart httpd and mariadb services
systemctl restart httpd mariadb
You are done with the initial set up here. Open enventory is ready to be used at this time.
Last modified 3yr ago