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Tutorial or help installing os ticket

March 29, 2014 6.7k views
New to all of this. A tutorial or help with installing os ticket on ubuntu lamp stack would be awesome!
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FlevasGR April 1, 2014
I took a look on OSTicket and it seems pretty easy to install. Personaly i always seting up my own webserver without using any pre-configured packages. If you need further information let me know!
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kamaln7 MOD April 4, 2014
Installing OSTicket shouldn't be too hard: simply extract the archive (http://osticket.com/download) in /var/www and run the installation wizard.

This article explains it in more detail: http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/318061-osticket-help-desk-ticketing-system-right.
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chubbable December 24, 2016

For future readers of this post, there's an updated guide using the latest version of osTicket.

An overview of osTicket installation using the latest version of osTicket - v1.10 (at the time of writing this post), using DigitalOcean's Ubuntu 16.04 LAMP Stack.

  1. Create Ubuntu 16.04 Droplet
  2. Login to your droplet and run mysql_secure_installation.
  3. Purge php7.0 or php 7.1. The command would be apt-get purge php7.0-common.
  4. Add the proper PPA Repo - add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
  5. Run apt-get update - to update the repo

  6. Install php 5.6 along with the osTicket require packages.

    apt-get install php5.6 php5.6-cli php5.6-mysql php-gettext php5.6-mbstring php-xdebug libapache2-mod-php5.6 php5.6-gd php5.6-imap php5.6-xml php5.6-intl php5.6-apcu unzip -y

  7. Download and extract osTicket - go to the dowload page and retrieved the file path.

    Do a simple wget command to download the zip file and extract:
    http://osticket.com/sites/default/files/download/osTicket-v1.10.zip - to download.

    unzip osTicket-v1.10.zip -d osticket - to extract the file to osticket folder.

  8. Copy all the files inside osticket/upload to /var/www/html and set proper file/folder permission.

    chown -R :www-data /var/www/html - to set group permission.

    find /var/www/html -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \; - to set permission for directories

    find /var/www/html -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \; - to set permission for files

    Copy the ost-sampleconfig.php:

    cd /var/www/html

    cp include/ost-sampleconfig.php include/ost-config.php

    chmod 666 include/ost-config.php

  9. Create the database for osticket. Using the commandline, login as root and use your supplied mysql password. To retrieve your MySQL - If you haven't changed your password: cat /root/.digitalocean_password

    To create a database and database user:

    mysql -u root -p; - to login

    then...

    create database ost; - you may change ost to any shortname you wish.

    grant all on ost.* to 'ost'@'localhost' identified by 'enter-your-password-here';

    flush privileges;

  10. Fire up your favorite browser and type in your osTicket URL or IP Address of your VPS. If you want this installation to be your production environment, then you must have configured your DNS Record first.

Follow the install wizard and supply your database details and fillout all the necessary fields.

After the installation, you need to remove the setup folder and change back ost-config.php to 644 permission.

You could read the step-by-step guide which includes DNS Record setup in DigitalOcean, from the link below:
https://chubbable.com/osticket-vps-installation

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