GLPI- Digital Asset and Ticket management server installation process step by step in Ubuntu 22.04

Resource Requirement-     Active Internet connection

                                               Minimum CPU 2 core

                                               Minimum RAM 2 GB 

This is the documentation prepared for Ubuntu version 22.04 LTS.

User Login: root (that's why I'm not using sudo)

After successfully installing Ubuntu 22.04

Update Ubuntu

apt update

apt -y upgrade

 

Install MariaDB Database server for GLPI database.

apt update

apt install mariadb-server

mysql_secure_installation         (set a new password for DB)

sudo mysql -u root -p                       (login into DB)

            CREATE DATABASE glpi;

CREATE USER 'glpi'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'Abc@123';

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON glpi.* TO 'glpi'@'localhost';

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

EXIT;

 

Install PHP and Apache 2

 

apt -y install php php-{curl,zip,bz2,gd,imagick,intl,apcu,memcache,imap,mysql,cas,ldap,tidy,pear,xmlrpc,pspell,mbstring,json,iconv,xml,gd,xsl}

 

apt -y install apache2 libapache2-mod-php

 

nano /etc/php/*/apache2/php.ini     (Edit the file)

 Search and edit the below-line

session.cookie_httponly = on 

Download and Install GLPI

 

apt-get -y install wget curl

 

VER=$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/glpi-project/glpi/releases/latest|grep tag_name|cut -d '"' -f 4)

 

wget https://github.com/glpi-project/glpi/releases/download/$VER/glpi-$VER.tgz

 

tar xvf glpi-$VER.tgz       (Uncompress the downloaded the archive)

 

Move the created glpi folder to the /var/www/html directory.

 

mv glpi /var/www/html/

 

chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/

Note-

Server: This code is based on the latest version of GLPI installation. If any specific version needed, download it from the official page of GLPI or other download source and extract it to /var/www/html with the folder name glpi.

 

Agents: The most used and reliable agent for GLPI is the Fusion Inventory. It must be extracted to GLPI’s Plugins directory.

 

Now open the browser and start the setup process for GLPI.

http://your server IP/glpi

After that, you can see the below captures

Choose Install for completely new installation.

Input MySQL server and DB user name password which is earlier created.

Select GLPI DB which is earlier created. Then the login page will displayed.

Input login username and password. By default

GLPI login username: glpi

password: glpi