A Lot To Ask

[rjwjason]

I know this is a lot to ask, and has probably been asked before.  We are trying to set up blesta on a fresh installation of Debian 7.4 and have no prior webserver experience.  Can someone kind of give us a step by step needed to get it going?

[Michael]

Are you doing this without a control panel (cPanel, InterWorx, DirectAdmin)? I've only used Centos myself.

[Paul]

I'm a RHEL/CentOS guy, so maybe someone from the community will be able to help you with installing necessary packages.

 

If you have a web server up and running, and know how to create a database in MySQL then you can install via SSH this way..

 

cd /var/www/html (your document root for your web server)

wget https://account.blesta.com/client/plugin/download_manager/client_main/download/44/blesta-3.2.1.zip

unzip blesta-3.2.1.zip

cd blesta

php ./index.php install

 

Then, follow the prompt to complete installation. You'll be asked for your MySQL database/user/pass

[rjwjason]

Alright, I have all the prereqs installed.  I made a database called billing, but when I run the cli I type in my host which is the default localhost, my user which is billing, the database name which is billing, then the password.  But it fails to connect, then gets stuck in a cycle asking for my database info.

[rjwjason]

Nevermind, I figured it out.  Had to change ownership of the Database.