CHANGING TIMEOUT FOR WRONG PASSWORD

Edit file lib_global_setting.php: from

to

ADDING MORE OPTIONS FOR # OF RESULTS PER PAGE & DEFAULT CURRENCY TO USD

Edit file lib_global_setting.php

from

to

ADDING MORE MEMORY IN ORDER TO EXPORT (IN OE) TO EXCEL OF LARGE AMOUNT OF CHEMICALS

1. edit filephp.ini (in Linux, /etc/php.ini)

with xxx = desired memory in megabytes

2. edit file.htaccess (in the folder install oe)

with xxx = desired memory in megabytes

SETTING FOR BARCODE SCANNER

1. For OE original barcode, add Prefix ESC

2. For existing barcode, (specifically for Tao Tronic scanner: ) add Prefix: [l_shift_on]+[Home]+[l_shift_off]

TO FIX ISSUE WITH IMPORT TEXT-SEPARATED TEXT FILE NOT LOADING

• If you find a blank page after clicking the check mark ✅:

• Chance is you miss php-mbstring and php-gd packages

• Install these packaged and restart apache (httpd in CentOS 7) should fix this issue

• In CentOS 7, you can install the two above packages by running :

• Restart your server (in Centos 7):

TO KEEP THE CURSOR ALWAYS IN THE FIRST TEXTBOX IN BARCODE TERMINAL FUNCTION

1. Go to OE folder, change …/lib/barcode_terminal.js, line 174-185, content:

From

To:

CHANGE LOGIN DEFAULT DATABASE TO NONE

1. Edit lib_global_funcs.php

Change:

to:

2. Restart server

TO AUTO FOCUS ON THE DATABASE TEXT BOX ON THE LOGIN PAGE

1. Edit lib_global_funcs.php by adding autofocus after id=\"db_name\". Around line ~1180

Original:

to:

UPGRADING OE

1. Backup current OE files

2. Download the appropriate files from:

3. Unzip the file

4. Copy the content of the folder into your current [OE_folder] and overwrite the old files

MULTIPLE LABEL STYLES

This will create n number of window for different styles of label when click on this Print Dymo Label button (). Also, this code will close these pop-up windows automatically after 30 seconds (30000 miliseconds)

1. Create the label by re-design the original file chemical_storage.label (in /oe/forms/dymo/). You can open and edit ".label" files by using Dymo software:

2. Name these files as chemical_storage1.label, chemical_storage2.label, etc.

From:

To:

Pic:

Original file:

Modified file:

2. Restart the apache service: in CentOS7 use this in the command line:

HAVING THE “PRINT DYMO LABEL” BUTTON ALWAYS SHOW UP REGARDLESS OF DYMO PLUGINS INTALLED

This will make this button () always show up even if the dymo plugin for browser is not detected.

1. Edit file lib_edit.php (in /oe/)

From:

Pic:

To (remove style=\"display:none\")

2. Restart the http/apache service

CHANGING LOCATION OF MULTIPLE CONTAINERS

1. Install phpMyAdmin by following the instruction from:

2. Log in into phpMyAdmin using Web browser: (or https://) with root user

3. Choose the Database in which the containers belong to:

For example in this case, I choose Database storage

4. Create new storage location in OE as usual, see:

5. Identify the storage_id of the new and old locations by choosing Table storage in Database “xyz”.

Another way of doing this is to use “Console” function in phpMyAdmin

Type in:

You should see similar to:

With the screen above, you should be able to see the storage_name and the corresponding storage_id

The next few steps is demonstration for changing all of the chemical in “315-R (Personal)” (storage_id=1) into “305-test” (storage_id=9)

In the Console:

6. To check how many chemical, type:

7. To change, type:

Done

CHANGING INFO OF MULTIPLE CHEMICALS

Install phpMyAdmin (See above)

To return all chemicals borrow by somebody (borrowed_by_person_id)

1. Look up person_id by going into [Database]/person

2. Show chemical borrow by that person (i.e. a person with person_id=8)

3. Return by:

To change the owner info of a chemical (owner_person_id)

1. Look up person_id by going into [Database]/person

2. Show chemical owned by that person (i.e. a person with person_id=7)

3. Change, in this case, to no owner (NULL)

Find person_id using Console command line in PHPMyAdmin

In the following example, show person_id of user with username=julia

Find storage ID using Console Command line in PHPMyAdmin

1. First choose the desired database on the tree folder from the left

2. Use:

Explain:

• LIKE 'FH-2206%' : show the storage_id of the storage location with name starting with FH-2206

• LIKE '%FH-2206%' would mean find anything with storage name containing FH-2206

Show chemicals with multiple criteria

Explain: the above command is used to

• Select all of the chemical in the database that match: owner_person_id=15 AND with storage_id is NOT 18

Change Responsible person for chemicals with multiple criteria

Explain: see above for explanation of the criteria.

Show storage_name and storage_id using username

Explain:

GROUP BY storage_name : is added so that duplicates are only shown once

Update responsible person for chemicals in many location (storage)

Explain: the command above change responsible people to no one for all of the chemicals being owned by person_id=13 AND in all of the storage_id listed

Search for barcodes that are duplicated

The below command will search for all the barcode that is assigned to more than 1 container (chemical_storage). This search ignores disposed container as well as container without barcodes (chemical_storage_disabled IS NULL AND chemical_storage_barcode != "")

Update/Get extra info for containers with duplicated barcode (continued from “Search for barcodes that are duplicated”)

To select info from the list of duplicated barcodes. In this case, created by a specific user and created after some specific timestamp

REMOVE ALL CONTAINERS (BOTTLES) OF CHEMICALS

This will remove all of the containers, including info about manufactures, order date, barcode, owner, location, etc. However, info about molecule (MW, structures, safety, etc) and database related such as users will be reserved.

This is particularly helpful when you need to update a large amount of chemicals via text import.

1. Login into your server via ssh

2. Login into myswl using root account or user account with administrator priviledge for the database that you want to change. Replace “root” with the username if desired

3. Show database and then choose the database of interest. test is the name of the database in this example

4. Remove the chemical container by running the following command

5. (Optional): Run the command below if you want to reset the id counter (chemical_storage_id as well as autogenerated barcode)

6. Log out of mysql, restart httpd and mariadb services

7. Go back to OE website and import new tab-separated text file

SETTINGS FOR OE TO USE WITH EXISTING CONTAINER BARCODES

If you have existing barcodes for your chemical containers, use the following settings

1. Login into OE with the database that you want to modify, using an admin account, (or root account, or an account with sufficient permission)

2. Navigate to Settings/Global Settings/Inventory

Important: when switching to this setting, you have to generate your own storage(locations) barcodes as well as user barcodes. See below for way to automatically generate location and user barcodes.

TO FIX EXISTING BARCODE IMPORTED ISSUE: Removing trailing “\n” in existing barcodes

Issue: if the existing barcode column is the last column in the tab-separated text file, when imported into OE, the “\n” will also be imported as part of the barcode. This lead to terminal window does not work with existing barcode. Use the following methods to remove this trailing “\n” character

1. Login into your server via ssh

2. Login into mysql using root account or user account with administrator priviledge for the database that you want to change. Replace “root” with the username if desired

3. Show database and then choose the database of interest. “test” is the name of the database in this example:

4. Remove the chemical container by running the following command

5. Log out of mysql, restart httpd and mariadb services

TO AUTOMATICALLY ADD STORAGE BARCODE WHEN USING “USE EXISTING BARCODES”

Issue: when switching to using pre-existing barcode instead of using OE-generated barcodes, the system won’t work well if no existing barcode for storages and users are added. Use the code below in mysql to automatically add barcodes for storage using OE-generated code.

While these barcodes look the same, they have to be generated in order for terminal to work

1. Login into your server via ssh

2. Login into mysql using root account or user account with administrator privilege for the database that you want to change. Replace “root” with the username if desired

3. Show database and then choose the database of interest. “test” is the name of the database in this example:

4. You can check if the new generated barcode first by running this in phpMyAdmin (easier to see result). See explanation below for the complicated function. Compared the “new_barcode” with the autogenerated barcode to make sure the function work well.

5. Update the “storage” table, by setting “storage_barcode” field. “storage_barcode” field is a binary so cast() was used. Note, this whole function inside cast() is to convert “storage_id” field to EAN8 barcode. See here for more info on how to make EAN8 barcode:

Explain: default in OE, the barcode for storage is “92xxxxxy” with the last digit “y” (digit number 8 on 1-based) is the check sum of the first 7 digits. The “xxxxx” labeled in red is the “storage_id” left padded with “0” (number zero).

For example: if “storage_id”=1 => “storage_barcode”=92000018

1. Exit mysql:

TO AUTOMATICALLY ADD PERSON BARCODE WHEN USING “USE EXISTING BARCODES”

Issue: when switching to using pre-existing barcode instead of using OE-generated barcodes, the system won’t work well if no existing barcode for storages and users are added. Use the code below in mysql to automatically add barcodes for USER using OE-generated barcode.

While these barcodes look the same, they have to be generated in order for terminal to work

1. Login into your server via ssh

2. Login into mysql using root account or user account with administrator privilege for the database that you want to change. Replace “root” with the username if desired

3. Show database and then choose the database of interest. “test” is the name of the database in this example:

4. You can check if the new generated barcode first by running this in phpMyAdmin (easier to see result). See explanation below for the complicated function. Compared the “new_barcode” with the autogenerated barcode to make sure the function work well.

5. Update the “storage” table, by setting storage_barcode field. storage_barcode field is a binary so cast() was used. Note, this whole function inside cast() is to convert storage_id field to EAN8 barcode. See here for more info on how to make EAN8 barcode:

Explain: default in OE, the barcode for PERSON is “91xxxxxy” with the last digit “y” (digit number 8 on 1-based) is the check sum of the first 7 digits. The “xxxxx” labeled in red is the “person_id” left padded with “0” (number zero).

For example: if “person_id”=1 => “person_barcode”=91000019

6. Exit mysql:

SETTING TO ALLOW SEEING LOCATION OF CHEMICAL OUTSIDE YOUR OWN GROUP

In the default setting of OE, the exact location of a chemical belonging to a different group is masked. This setting will help you to allow some specific person or everyone to be able to see locations of chemicals outside of your own groups

1. Login into the server via ssh and then convert to root user or use sudo command. The following is using sudo command

2. It is a good idea to save an original copy of this file first. Modify the file lib_output.php inside open enventory folder. In this example, the open enventory folder is named “oe”. The specific location of your folder might change. Change the path accordingly.

3. Change the content of the file as follow. Note, this is on line 2584 so google to search for some term in vi; otherwise you will need to scroll a lot.

Original content:

To let EVERYONE see the locations:

To let a specific user to see the location, change the content as follow. In this example, the person name is “special_person”

UPLOADING EXISTING LOCATION BARCODES

Below guide is referenced from:

Prepare the excel file with one column as storage with the same name as those found in OE. Export to csv file, csv file does not have to have the same column but it is best to have the first 2 columns is the storage name and barcode

Use mysql command line. ( if you use phpMyAdmin console, see section below)

1. Login into mysql as root user using:

2. Show all databases and choose the correct database to modify (in this example “test” is the name of the database):

3. Create a temporary table (in this example temp_storage is the name of the database, storage and barcode are the 2 headlines of the 2 columns):

4. Load csv data file into temp_storage table (in this example test is the name of the database; “ignore 1 lines” because the csv file head 1 line headline):

5. Update storage table

6. Remove the temporary table

If you want to use phpMyAdmin,

1. Copy csv files into /var/lib/mysql

2. Open phpMyAdmin console.

3. Choose the right databases

4. Run ALL of these commands AT ONCE (Ctrl-Enter to run command(s) in phpMyAdmin console)

This program is designed specifically for Open Enventory to fix issue with molecules missing structures (could not be extracted through "Read data from supplier")

DETAILS

This programs does:

1. Connect into mysql database and find molecule in 'molecule' table

   of specific database and find those molecule with missing structure (smiles)

2. folder "missing_mol_files" needs to be created inside /var/lib/mysql

   with 'mysql' as ownner (chown mysql:mysql)

3. Try to download mol files from various sources into a folder in

   /var/lib/mysql/missing_mol_files

4. Update those sql entries with new downloaded mol_files

REQUIREMENTS

• root access to the server hosting Open Enventory

• Python 3+

• This file is made for Linux environment, you should be able

  to used it on other OS with changing the location of the "download_path"

USAGE

After cloning this repo onto the Open Enventory server:

1. Change into directory of the new file:

2. (Optional): create virtual environment for python to install dependency:

3. Install python dependencies:

VERSIONS

Version 4:

• Using simple download bar with bar=wget.bar_thermometer in wget.download

• Added handling database connection error (wrong password, wrong database)

• Added confirmation for database

Version 5

• Change to https (from http) for ChemicalBook site

Version 6 (2020-01-18):

• Remove this extra step of going into Open Enventory manual by the user using a web browser and doing Batch Processing.

  Why: for versions 5 and before:

  after running this program, YOU STILL NEED TO LOGIN INTO OPEN ENVENTORY ON A WEB BROWSER AS ROOT, GO TO "SETTINGS/BATCH PROCESSING". CHOOSE DATABASE THAT YOU WANT TO UPDATE AND THEN CHOOSE "MOLECULE", "EMPIRICAL FORMULA", "MW", "DEG. OF UNSAT." , "STRUCTURE", "SMILES" AND "FINGERPRINT" AND THEN SUBMIT TO UPDATE THE SQL QUERY. ONLY AFTER THIS, THE STRUCTURE WILL SHOW UP

While the quick user backup as this one-line commandmysqldump -u [user] -p mysql > [Path]/[user_backup_filename].sql might work when you have same version for backup and restore SQL. In most cases, you want to implement something similar to the following bash script

Backup Users

Step 1: On your server, in terminal, prepare the following bash file using vi (or vim or any text-editor of choice)

Overview

You can quickly have a container (virtual machine) up and running Centos 7 and LAMP stack by using this Docker Image, see link below to download the docker image and quick instruction. If you have more questions, please feel free to contact KV.

2020-01-20:

• Add support for importing from csv (comma-separated text) files. Previously, only tab-separated text files are supported

Create a database

1. Go to your Open Enventory Login page on your web browser

2. On the Login page, fill in the following info: - Database: name for the new database - Username: root - Password: your mysql root password

3. Open Enventory will then create a new empty database

Connect databases

This allows for users in one database to see chemicals in another database and/or vice versa.

1. Go to your Open Enventory Login page on your web browser

2. Log into your database of interest using root as Username and your mysql root password as Password

3. Go to Settings on Top menus:

4. On the left side menu, choose Manage databases :

5. There are two types of connections:

• 2-way connections: users in one database can see/search chemicals in another database AND vice versa

• 1-way connection: users in one database can see/search chemicals in another database BUT NOT vice versa)

choose the desired connection and follow the instruction below.

Done! You can now search chemicals in other database(s) in the search page

1. Prepare the Excel file, an example might look similar as below. A few important things:

   • Columns that are highlight in blue are important info.

   • You don't need all of the info that show in this example.

   • Empty cells are OK.

   • The amount need to be “xx Y” with xx is the amount and Y is the unit.

   • For unit, it is best to have all in lower case, for example, “ML” should be either “ml” or “mL”. It is best to convert all unit to lower case (use lower() command in excel).

   • Double check the CAS number column, Open Enventory uses CAS number as primary source to look up chemical info from the internet.

   • See step 9 for more info about each column in the excel sheet.

   • Location column: remove all commas ( , ) if there is any. Dashes ( - ) are ok. Update (2020-02-01): for KV's version of OE, if you updated to version after 2020-02-01, this has been fixed.

2. Copy all of the cells in this file (Ctrl-C for Windows, Cmd-C for Mac) and paste (Ctrl-V for Windows, Cmd-V for Mac) them into Notepad (Windows) or TextEdit (Mac)

3. Save this new file as your-file-name.txt. The “.txt” part is important.

Save As… the file using Window Formatted Text (for Mac OS)

For Windows, Office 2016 of Office 365, use “Text (Tab delimited) (*.txt)” option:

4. Login into your database using root user or any users with admin permission

5. Go to Settings

6. Go to Import Tab-separated text file (or Import in KV's version)

7. Choose Browse… and choose the exported text file.

8. Click green check mark

9. Screens as below should show up, you can scroll down to see if they show up correctly (info appear correctly in each row)

10. Choose Column X for each content. If you choose None, that column will not be imported. You can also add a default value for each column that will apply for ALL items being imported.

11. Click green check mark. Screen similar as below should show. Note: line X:… will tell you which lines in the text file is being imported.

12. Depend of how many chemical containers are imported, this might take a long time, so please be patient.

Introduction

This is a User Guide (wiki) for Open Enventory. The links to the software (original version by FR, and forked version by KV) are on the top bar.

Please see the following presentation for a brief intro into Open Enventory, why you would want to use it and some of its functions:

You can contact KV at this email: knv88@pm.me

Ideas, guides, comments are welcomed.

For chemicals from existing database

Step-by-step instruction here

For chemicals from suppliers

Step 1: change to supplier search and search chemical

Step 2: choose Create new molecule based on data

Step 3: add more info: amount, person responsible, etc.

This clip below is show the process of adding a new chemical from suppliers:

Add a single chemical from scratch

Step 1: choose New

Step 2: use CAS number (if exists) to pull info from suppliers

Step 3: add more info

For traditional LAMP stack

This guide is for Linux environment with Apache2, PHP and MariaDB (MySQL) (LAMP) stack:

Save or Backup Database(s)

For chemicals and lab journal databases:

1. In Terminal window, type the following command:

2. Type in password for the user above and then Enter (nothing will show when you are typing the password)

For users info:

1. In Terminal window, type the following command:

2. Type in password for the user above and then Enter (nothing will show when you are typing the password)

Restore

Step 1: transfer both files (database and users, if you want to keep the same users and passwords) to the new system/server

Step 2: if you have not done so.

Step 3 (optional):

Step 4: use ssh and terminal, login as terminal root and run:

Step 5: go to OE on web browser and login with mysql root account.

Step 6: go to Settings and then click on Recreate users. That should reactivate all users and their passwords.

For XAMPP users

While the general steps are similar, the exact paths to the executable command are different for Mac OS and Windows using XAMPP, please follow the corresponding guides below:

User Permissions

Create a user

Change user password

Change user password using an admin account

Change one's own password

First, open up Open Enventory in any web browsers. Your screen should look as follows.

After logging in you should see the general window for searching chemicals.

Click on the “Settings” tab top and center of the page (outlined with a red box below).

This will change the left side bar. At the top of the left side bar you should see “Change password” Click here (the button is outlined with a red box below).

Your screen should have two boxes as shown below. Fill in both boxes press the “Change password” button right next to the text fields and your password has been changed.

Create a list of users

Modify a user's information, permissions

Delete a user

Inactivate a user

Step 1: Search chemical in the database:

In Inventory Mode

Borrow a chemical

Step 1: search for the chemical of interest (see Search chemicals section)

Searching Chemicals in Existing Database(s)

Step 1: choose what type of search: e.g “names, cas, supplier #”

Step 2: choose options: e.g. all words, contain (~ similar to), exact

Step 3: type is your search query, this can be name, CAS, supplier #, best with CAS and name

Step 4: choose database(s): choose one, or several (holding Ctrl while Left-click, or All databases (default)

Step 5: click Search

Video demonstration:

Searching Chemicals in Supplier Mode

Search Chemicals using Structure

Step 1: choose search with Structures

Step 2: draw structure

Step 3: choose options: contain, similar to, exact, etc.

Step 4: click search

All of the guides in this section require you to be in an active Terminal. Please contact your site admin for specific details on how to access a terminal page on Open Enventory.

A terminal site should look similar to this:

Go to an active Terminal on your Open Enventory page. It should look similar to the following page.

Without any user logging in, scanning a chemical container barcode will bring up that chemical info.

SETTING FOR BARCODE TERMINAL USER

1. To have a barcode terminal client (stand-alone computer), create a user with permission as below and log in into OE using this user.

Create a storage location

Step 1: After logging into Open Enventory, click on Settings on the top bar navigation.

Step 2: click on Storages on the Left.

Step 3: click on the ➕ button

Step 4: after adding the info, click the checkmark ( ✅ ) button

Create a list of storage

Modify a single storage's information, permissions

Modify info for a list of storage

Merge two storage locations

Delete a storage

This guide is to create a working Open enventory running on OS Raspbian on a Raspberry pi 3B (see https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-3-model-b/ for information on the RPi 3B)

• Quad Core 1.2GHz Broadcom BCM2837 64bit CPU

• 1GB RAM

• Using as boot and home drive

Initial Setup

1. Flash a fresh copy of Raspbian onto the micro SD card. (A guide for completing this task can be found here .

• Raspbian image found at We used "Raspbian Buster with desktop and recommended software" zip file

• use zip file with to flash to micro SD

2. Once flashed insert micro SD into the RPi 3B and boot the device with monitor connected. If install completed you should now see the Raspbian desktop as shown below.

3. The first thing that should be done is to update the OS

• open a terminal window by clicking on terminal icon on top bar or by pressing ctl+alt+t

• run the following commands

4. After the update has completed we will create a LAMP server on the pi. This was completed following this guide ()

• Complete the steps to set up the Apache server, install PHP, and install MYSQL mysql is outdated trying the command in the above link will give you an error use the following instead to setup the mariadb and mysql (NOTE: Wordpress does not need to be installed)

5. Install the following packages to prepare for Open enventory

6. Create MYSQL root pwd by entering the following command in terminal the default password is blank. We will subsequently set it up so sudo is not required so that we can login online to create our databases for oe. When asked for a password after command 4, use the password we just set up for mysql_secure_installation.

7. Download Open Enventory image and set up on apache server (exact link to download can be found at ) (NOTE: in terminal commands below, the open_enventory_2019-07-24.zipshould be replaced with the version you wish to use) - Once downloaded unzip and copy to the right location which we will need to make.

8. Now go to the

To find the ip address of your raspberry pi on your local network run the following command. The result will yield many things we only care about the ip address number directly following inet

going to servers address in a browser on a device on the local network will look like the following

9. If successful after clicking inventory you should see the following page

10. Modify .htaccess file

Modify the content of the file as in this screenshot. Important: these settings are for the server with configuration as indicated in the top of this tutorial

Save the file by typing ctrl+o then hitting the enter key then exit by typing ctrl+x. You will then have to tell the raspberry pi to use the settings in the .htaccess file. Navigate to 000-default.conf and add add the Directory lines so that the file is identical to the image below.

Then restart the apache server

11. Note this can only be accessed on the local server if you wish to access the OE database on any network you can set up ngrok. If you sign up you can use the given link indefinitely, and using you can make a DNS to access the database easily.

12. Install ngrok (see for more details)

13. Start the ngrok server

the output should look as follows (note if you close the terminal window the session will be closed

by navigating to the link provided by your output in a web browser with the directory oe for this example it would be http://2057a4d3.ngrok.io/oe should get you to the open enventory login page from any device on any network.

Go to an active Terminal on your Open Enventory page. It should look similar to the following page.

Moving one single chemical

1. Scan user barcode (will say you are logged in)

2. Scan chemical container (will now show chemical information)

3. Scan new location barcode (will now say “updated and location field will show new location”)

Moving multiple containers to the same location

1. Check the 2 boxes “Stock-keeping mode” and “Set storage for all following containers” (the “Set storage for all following containers” will show up after you check “Stock-keeping mode”). Note: you can check by mouse or use the “Barcode for stock-keeping mode” list from Settings menu.

2. In typical terminal window of database of interest. Login by scanning user barcode

3. Scan the 1st chemical containers

4. Scan the new location. The window will show the new location and say the 1st container “… updated”

5. Scan the 2nd containers, 3rd container, 4th container, etc.

6. When Done, uncheck “Set storage for all following containers”

This guide is created for new unmanaged VPS from A2hosting.com

• OS: CentOS 7

• Ram: 1GB

See

1. Install this XAMPP https://www.apachefriends.org/download.html

2. Copy/extract Open Enventory into C://XAMPP/htdocs/ . Write down the folder name because this will be the web address. In this case the folder is named ‘enventory’

3. Stated Appache and MySQL

4. Firefox browser type

brings up this page

Click security that brings this page

Click the link that brings this page

Put password (for root), check http then close

5. Go to

It will show error message first then find

“php.ini” text file in “XAMP folder” and Change line

“error_reporting=XXXXXXXXXXXXX” to “error_reporting=E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE”

6. Restart Apache and SQL in XAMPP manager then go to

with root login and password, go to settings and create a new user, log out.

then go to again

it will bring this page and inventory.

7. If you are locked from login due to incorrect entries of username and password (for 30 min),

Find the notepad file namely “openenv.log” which you can find in a similar path given below

“C:\Users\sr\AppData\Local\Temp\ openenv.log

Open, delete the content, save and restart XAMP and Firefox ()

Installation

1. Install XAMPP: https://www.apachefriends.org/index.html

2. Copy/extract Open Enventory into Applications/XAMPP/htdocs/ . Write down the folder name because this will be the web address. In this case the folder is named ‘open_enventory’

3. Open Applications/XAMPP manager. Start MySQL and Apache.

4. Change mysql root password by following these steps:

1. Ensure that the MySQL/MariaDB server is running. (see step 3)

2. Open a new terminal.

3. Use the mysqladmin command-line utility to alter the MySQL/MariaDB password, using the following syntax: mysqladmin --user=root password "newpassword"

5. Test that your password change has been accepted, by attempting to connect to the MySQL/MariaDB server using the mysqlcommand-line client in the same directory. For example, you could use the command below to connect to the server and return the results of a calculation: (make sure you use your own password instead of “gue55me”)

8. Using a web browser, go to:

• In Database: put in the name for your database server

• Log in with username ‘root’ and set password Notice the error messages

9. Under Warning above notice the place of the temp folder (in this case /var/folders/87/…)

10. Go to that folder containing the openenv.log (in this case: T with the path as following in Finder (file maybe hidden): /var/folders/87/b98_ym4x1r91ldysmq8r29kc0000gn/T/

11. Set permission for everyone to Read&Write for this folder (e.g. “T”)

12. Look-up file php.ini. Should be in Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/etc/

And change to: error_reporting=E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE

13. Restart Apache and SQL in XAMPP manager

14. Restart the web browser and go the server website at: - In Database: put in the name for your database server - Log in with username ‘root’ and set password

CHANGE TIME ZONE

1. Edit php.ini with TextEdit: Path: /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/etc/php.ini Change: date.timezone=Europe/Berlin to: date.timezone=America/Chicago

2. Restart server

CHANGE LOGIN DEFAULT DATABASE TO NONE

1. Edit lib_global_funcs.php with TextEdit: Path: /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/open_enventory/ Change: if ($db_name=="") { $db_name="storage";

   to: if ($db_name=="") { $db_name="";

2. Restart server

SAVE/ BACK-UP and RESTORE DATABASE

See this page:

Go to an active Terminal on your Open Enventory page. It should look similar to the following page.

1. Scan user barcode (will say you are logged in)

2. Scan chemical container (will now show chemical information)

3. Scan barcode for “Delete” (will say “data set will be deleted in 3 seconds, then deleted)

Notes: If you manually change data (not using the scanner) you will have to click “update” after changing the data manually (mouse and keyboard).

CHANGE TIME ZONE

1. Edit php.ini file (/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/etc/php.ini if you use XAMPP in MacOS)

Change:

SETTING UP NEW SERVER ON A2 HOSTING

A2 hosting was chosen because of:

1. Setting up LAMP stack

2. Accessing your account:

• SSH set up:

3. Back-up data (document from A2), also should see Khoi’s document on OE:

• To make a script to delete files older than X days when there is less than XGB left, see this:

4. Install EPEL repository on CentOS 7: