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            <h1>Roll Your Own Asset Management System with Snipe-IT</h1>
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          <h2>What is Snipe-IT?</h2>

<p><em>Snipe-IT is a Free Open Source (FOSS) project built on Laravel. Snipe-IT was made for IT asset management, to enable IT departments to track who has which laptop, when it was purchased, which software licenses and accessories are available, and so on.</em> - <a href="https://snipe-it.readme.io/docs" target="_blank">https://snipe-it.readme.io/docs</a></p>

<h2>Installation</h2>

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	<li>Log into the Linux device</li>
	<li>Run the following commands in a terminal window:
	<div class="codeBlock"># update software respositories<br />
	sudo apt update<br />
	# install available software updates<br />
	sudo apt upgrade -y<br />
	# install prerequisites<br />
	sudo apt install git openssl curl wget zip composer -y<br />
	# install Apache HTTPD and MySQL<br />
	sudo apt install apache2 mariadb-server mariadb-client -y<br />
	# install PHP components<br />
	sudo apt install php7.3 libapache2-mod-php7.3 php7.3-curl php7.3-tokenizer php7.3-ldap php7.3-cli php7.3-json php7.3-gd php7.3-mbstring php7.3-mysql php7.3-xml php7.3-zip php7.3-bcmath -y<br />
	# configure the MySQL database<br />
	sudo su<br />
	mysql_secure_installation</div>
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	<li>Press Enter to login as root</li>
	<li>Type Y and press Enter to set a root password, type the password twice to confirm</li>
	<li>Type Y and press Enter to remove anonymous users</li>
	<li>Type Y and press Enter to disallow root login remotely</li>
	<li>Type Y and press Enter to remove the test database</li>
	<li>Type Y and press Enter to reload privilege tables</li>
	<li>Run the following command to login into MySQL:
	<div class="codeBlock">mysql -u root -p</div>
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	<li>Authenticate with the root password set earlier</li>
	<li>Run the following commands to create the Snipe-IT database and database user
	<div class="codeBlock">CREATE DATABASE snipe_it;<br />
	GRANT ALL ON snipe_it.* to &#39;snipe_it_rw&#39;@&#39;localhost&#39; IDENTIFIED BY &#39;$nip3-IT!&#39;;<br />
	FLUSH PRIVILEGES;<br />
	EXIT;<br />
	exit</div>
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	<li>Continue with the following commands:
	<div class="codeBlock"># clone snipe-it from github<br />
	sudo git clone https://github.com/snipe/snipe-it /var/www/snipe-it<br />
	# create a copy of the sample .env file<br />
	sudo cp /var/www/snipe-it/.env.example /var/www/snipe-it/.env<br />
	# edit the .env file<br />
	sudo nano /var/www/snipe-it/.env</div>
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	<li>Edit the following environment variables as needed
	<p>APP_ENV=production<br />
	APP_DEBUG=false<br />
	APP_KEY=SomethingSecure<br />
	APP_URL=http://debian/snipe_it<br />
	APP_TIMEZONE=&#39;America/New_York&#39;<br />
	APP_LOCALE=en<br />
	<br />
	DB_CONNECTION=mysql<br />
	DB_HOST=127.0.0.1<br />
	DB_DATABASE=snipe_it<br />
	DB_USERNAME=snipe_it_rw<br />
	DB_PASSWORD=$nip3-IT!<br />
	<br />
	MAIL_DRIVER=smtp<br />
	MAIL_HOST=smtp.i12bretro.local<br />
	MAIL_PORT=25<br />
	MAIL_USERNAME=null<br />
	MAIL_PASSWORD=null<br />
	MAIL_ENCRYPTION=null<br />
	MAIL_FROM_ADDR=snipe-it@i12bretro.local<br />
	MAIL_FROM_NAME=&#39;Snipe-IT&#39;<br />
	MAIL_REPLYTO_ADDR=snipe-it@i12bretro.local<br />
	MAIL_REPLYTO_NAME=&#39;Snipe-IT&#39;<br />
	MAIL_AUTO_EMBED_METHOD=&#39;attachment&#39;</p>
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	<li>Press CTRL+O, Enter, CTRL+X to write the changes to .env</li>
	<li>Continue with the following commands:
	<div class="codeBlock"># set the owner of the snipe-it directory<br />
	sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/snipe-it<br />
	# setup composer working directory<br />
	sudo mkdir /var/www/.composer<br />
	sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/.composer<br />
	cd /var/www/snipe-it<br />
	# install dependencies with composer<br />
	sudo -u www-data composer install --no-dev --prefer-source<br />
	# generate app key, type yes to confirm generating a new key<br />
	sudo php artisan key:generate<br />
	# create snipe-it apache configuration<br />
	sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/snipe-it.conf</div>
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	<li>Paste the following configuration into snipe-it.conf
	<p>Alias /snipe-it &quot;/var/www/snipe-it/public&quot;<br />
	&lt;Directory /var/www/snipe-it/public&gt;<br />
	Allow From All<br />
	AllowOverride All<br />
	Options -Indexes<br />
	&lt;/Directory&gt;</p>
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	<li>Press CTRL+O, Enter, CTRL+X to write the changes to snipe-it.conf</li>
	<li>Run the following command to enable the snipe-it site
	<div class="codeBlock"># enable rewrite module<br />
	sudo a2enmod rewrite<br />
	# enable the snipe-it site<br />
	sudo a2ensite snipe-it<br />
	# restart the apache2 service<br />
	sudo systemctl restart apache2</div>
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<h2>Snipe-IT Web Installer</h2>

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	<li>Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP/snipe-it</li>
	<li>Review the Pre-Flight Checks summary &gt; Click the Next: Create Database Tables button</li>
	<li>Once the database tables are created, Click the Next: Create User button</li>
	<li>Create a user by inputting a site name, first name, last name, email address, username and password &gt; Click the Next: Save User button</li>
	<li>Welcome to Snipe-IT</li>
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<p>Source: <a href="https://snipe-it.readme.io/docs/installation" target="_blank">https://snipe-it.readme.io/docs/installation</a></p>          </div>
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