Installation of webERP on Ubuntu

Prerequisites for installing webERP

• PHP 5
• Apache 2
• MySQL

• Take your system terminal window and run the following command to install LAMP stack on your system.

• Lamp stack comes bundled with all three components (Apache, MySQL, PHP)
  

        #sudo apt-get install lamp-server

• During the installation process, you should see a pop up window asking to set root the password for MySQL.

• Note down the password you set here as it will be used later when we will initiate the install process for WebERP.

• After Completing the installation of lamp stack, run following command to start  

 

        $ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 star

• Take your browser and launch http://localhost to verify that Apache is working fine on your system.

• Now create a MySQL database for our new WebERP installation.

      # mysql –uroot –p

• Here create new database by running the following command:

      # create database weberp          

Download the zip file for WebERP from following URL.

   # http://sourceforge.net/projects/web-erp/?source=typ_redirect   

• After downloading, run the following command to move it to apache document root directory.

      # sudo mv webERP_4.12.3.zip /var/www/html          
  

• Change your working directory:

      # cd /var/www/html

• Here run following command to unzip the downloaded WebERP file.

      #unzip webERP_4.12.3.zip                    

• Take your browser and launch http://localhost/webERP. Now it should display page as shown below.

• Click “NEXT STEP” to take installation further.

 

• Here specify your admin user password, the default password is “weberp” but you can change it.

• Click “Install” and it will take less than a minute to perform all installation/configurations. There you go, it will take you straight to the login page.