Whether you’re creating personal or company ticket management sites, Attendize can help you build and manage your content on every device with its intuitive and powerful user and admin dashboard. This brief tutorial is going to show students and new users how to install Attendize with Nginx, MariaDB, and PHP 7.2 support on Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04 LTS. Some features of this platform include:

Beautiful mobile friendly event pages. Easy attendee management – Refunds, Messaging etc. Data export – attendees list to XLS, CSV etc. Generate print friendly attendee list. Ability to manage unlimited organisers / events. Manage multiple organisers. Real-time event statistics. Customizable event pages. Multiple currency support. Quick and easy checkout process

When you’re ready, follow the steps below:

Install Nginx HTTP Server on Ubuntu

Nginx HTTP Server is probably the second most popular web server in use today. since Attendize needs it go and install it on Ubuntu. To install Nginx HTTP on the Ubuntu server, run the commands below. After installing Nginx, the commands below can be used to stop, start and enable the Nginx service to always start up with the server boots. To test the Nginx setup, open your browser and browse to the server hostname or IP address and you should see the Nginx default test page as shown below. When you see that, then Nginx is working as expected.

Install MariaDB Database Server

MariaDB database server is a great place to start when looking at open-source database servers to use with Attendize. To install MariaDB run the commands below. After installing MariaDB, the commands below can be used to stop, start and enable the MariaDB service always to start up when the server boots. Run these on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Run these on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS After that, run the commands below to secure the MariaDB server by creating a root password and disallowing remote root access. When prompted, answer the questions below by following the guide.

Enter current password for root (enter for none): Press the Enter Set root password? [Y/n]: Y New password: Enter the password Re-enter new password: Repeat password Remove anonymous users? [Y/n]: Y Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n]: Y Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n]:  Y Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n]:  Y

Restart MariaDB server To test if MariaDB is installed, type the commands below to logon into the MariaDB server Then type the password you created above to sign on. if successful, you should see MariaDB welcome message

PHP 7.2-FPM may not be available in Ubuntu default repositories. to install it, you will have to get it from third-party repositories. Run the commands below to add the below third party repository to upgrade to PHP 7.2-FPM Then update and upgrade to PHP 7.2-FPM Next, run the commands below to install PHP 7.2 and related modules. After installing PHP 7.2-FPM, run the commands below to open the PHP default config file for Nginx. Then make the changes on the following lines below in the file and save. The value below is a great setting to apply in your environment. After making the change above, save the file and closet. After installing PHP and related modules, you must restart Nginx to reload PHP configurations. To restart Nginx, run the commands below To test PHP 7.2 settings with Nginx, create a phpinfo.php file in the Nginx root directory by running the commands below Then type the content below and save the file. Save the file. then browse to your server hostname followed by /phpinfo.php You should see the PHP default test page.

Create Attendize Database

Now that you’ve installed all the packages that are required for Attendize to function, continue below to start configuring the servers. First, run the commands below to create a blank Attendize database. To log on to the MariaDB database server, run the commands below. Then create a database called attendize Create a database user called attendizeuser with a new password Then grant the user full access to the database. Finally, save your changes and exit.

Download and Install Attendize

To get Attendize latest release you may want to use the GitHub repository… Install Composer, Curl and other dependencies to get started… After installing curl and Composer above, change into the /temp directory. download and extract, then move Attendize content to the Nginx root directory… then install from there. After that, use composer to install its dependencies. Next, run the commands below to change the root folder permissions.

Configure Attendize Site

Next, configure the Nginx2 configuration file for Attendize. This file will control how users access Attendize content. Run the commands below to create a new configuration file called attendize Then copy and paste the content below into the file and save it. Replace the highlighted line with your domain name and directory root location. Save the file and exit. After configuring the VirtualHost above, enable it by running the commands below

Enable the Attendize Site

After configuring the VirtualHost above, enable it by running the commands below, then restart the Nginx server. Next, open your browser and go to the URL. and continue with the installation. You should see the Attendize installation wizard page. first, validate that all requirements are met. After that, type in the database name, database user name, and password, then continue. After that create the first account that will manage the platform. After that, Attendize should be installed and ready to use. Congratulations! you have learned how to install the Attendize Ticketing Platform on Ubuntu 18.04 | 16.04 LTS Enjoy! You may also like the post below: