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openSIS Installation Instructions

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Windows Installation

Installing on machines running Windows10 Desktop and Windows 2008, 2012, 2016 Server OS

openSIS requires the following pre-requisite software:

Apache 2.4 and above MySQL 5.6 or 5.7 PHP 7.x If you have installed the above-mentioned software on your computer already, you can proceed to openSIS installation, otherwise, follow the links below to download and install the pre-requisite software.

Download and install Apache and PHP

XAMPP Windows

https://www.apachefriends.org/download.html

This will install Apache web server, MySQL database, and PHP 7.x.

Or,

Bitnami Windows http://bitnami.org/stack/wampstack

This will install Apache web server, MySQL database, and PHP 7.x.

Mac Installation

XAMPP for Mac is also available from the same download link: https://www.apachefriends.org/download.html

Make sure you log in as “root” user to your Mac and then attempt the installation.

Linux Installation

Installing on machines running Linux. openSIS has been tested on leading Linux distros.

openSIS requires the following pre-requisite software:

Apache 2.4 and above MySQL 5.6 or 5.7 PHP 7.x If you have installed the above-mentioned software on your computer already, you can proceed to openSIS installation, otherwise, follow the links below to download and install the pre-requisite software.

Download and install Apache and PHP

XAMPP Linux:

https://www.apachefriends.org/download.html

This will install Apache web server, MySQL database, and PHP 7.x.

Or,

Bitnami Linux LAPPStack:

http://bitnami.org/stack/lampstack

This will install Apache web server, MySQL database, and PHP 7.x.

After installing the pre-requisites software, follow the openSIS Installation procedure.

(openSIS has been tested extensively with the XAMPP package on Windows and the Bitnami LAPPStack on Linux).

openSIS Installation

This installation assumes that you have installed and properly configured the following items:

Web Server (Apache is the webserver we test on and use) MySQL database software PHP We recommend that you use one of the automated installers like XAMPP or Bitnami Stacks which eases the

process of installing and configuring the webserver.

Open your php.ini file and search for display_errors = ON and change it to display_errors = Off

Automated Installation

openSIS includes an automated installer that has been extensively tested on Windows and Linux variants like

Ubuntu and openSUSE.

  1. Download the latest stable release of openSIS from the www.opensis.com.

  2. Unzip the openSIS folder to your webserver directory.

In case you installed XAMPP the webserver directory will be:

/htdocs/

In case you have installed Bitnami LAPPStack, your web server would be:

/apache 2/htdocs/

  1. Open your web browser and go to the following address:

http://localhost/opensis-ce (or whatever the folder name you have used during unzipping the code)

Click on New Installation to continue, the automated installer will guide you through the setup step by step.

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