This is a FOSS project for asset management in IT Operations. Knowing who has which laptop, when it was purchased in order to depreciate it correctly, handling software licenses, etc.
It is built on Laravel 4.1 and uses the Sentry 2 package.
Many thanks to the Laravel 4 starter site for a quick start.
This project is being actively developed (at what seems like breakneck speed sometimes!) We're still in alpha release, so this is NOT recommended for production use yet, as many more things will likely change before v1.0-stable is ready - but we're releasing quite frequently.
Feel free to check out the GitHub Issues for this project to check on progress, open a bug report, request a feature, or see what open issues you can help with.
- PHP 5.4 or later
- MCrypt PHP Extension
Whenever you pull down a new version from master or develop, when you grab the latest official release, make sure to run the following commands via command line:
php composer.phar dump-autoload
php artisan migrate
Forgetting to do this can mean your DB might end up out of sync with the new files you just pulled, or you may have some funky cached autoloader values. It's a good idea to get into the habit of running these every time you pull anything new down. If there are no database changes to migrate, it won't hurt anything to run migrations anyway.
git clone https://github.com/snipe/snipe-it your-folder
https://github.com/snipe/snipe-it/archive/master.zip
Update the file boostrap/start.php under the section Detect The Application Environment.
vi bootstrap/start.php
AS OF LARAVEL 4.1 Per the Laravel 4.1 upgrade docs:
"For security reasons, URL domains may no longer be used to detect your application environment. These values are easily spoofable and allow attackers to modify the environment for a request. You should convert your environment detection to use machine host names (hostname command on Mac & Ubuntu)."
To find out your local machine's hostname, type hostname from a terminal prompt on the machine you're installing it on. The command-line response is that machine's hostname. Please note that the hostname is NOT always the same as the domain name.
So for example, if you're installing this locally on your Mac named SnipeMBP, the environmental variable section of bootstrap/start.php might look like this:
$env = $app->detectEnvironment(array(
'local' => array('SnipeMBP'),
'staging' => array('staging.mysite.com'),
'production' => array('www.mysite.com')
));
If your development, staging and production sites all run on the same server (which is generally a terrible idea), see this example of how to configure the app using environmental variables.
Copy the example database config app/config/local/database.example.php to app/config/local/database.php.
Update the file app/config/local/database.php with your database name and credentials.
vi app/config/local/database.php
Copy the example mail config app/config/local/mail.example.php to app/config/local/mail.php.
Update the file app/config/local/mail.php with your mail settings.
vi app/config/local/mail.php
This will be used to send emails to your users, when they register and they request a password reset.
Copy the example app config app/config/local/app.example.php to app/config/local/app.php.
Update the file app/config/local/app.php with your URL settings.
vi app/config/local/app.php
You should also change your secret key here -- if you prefer to have your key randomly generated, run the artisan key:generate command from the application root.
php artisan key:generate --env=local
The app is configured to automatically detect if you're in a local, staging, or production environment. Before deploying to a staging or production environment, follow sets 2.1, 2.2, and 2.3 above to tweak each environment as necessary. Configuration files for each environment can be found in app/config/{environment} (local, staging, and production).
cd your-folder
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
php composer.phar install
cd your-folder
composer install
Now, you need to create yourself a user and finish the installation.
Use the following command to create your default user, user groups and run all the necessary migrations automatically.
php artisan app:install
You'll need to make sure that the app/storage directory is writable by your webserver, since caches and log files get written there. You should use the minimum permissions available for writing, based on how you've got your webserver configured.
chmod -R 755 app/storage
If you still run into a permissions error, you may need to increase the permissions to 775, or twiddle your user/group permissions on your server.
chmod -R 775 app/storage
The document root for the app should be set to the public directory. In a standard Apache virtualhost setup, that might look something like this on a standard linux LAMP stack:
<VirtualHost *:80>
<Directory /var/www/html/public>
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/public
ServerName www.example.org
# Other directives here
</VirtualHost>
An OS X virtualhost setup could look more like:
Directory "/Users/flashingcursor/Sites/snipe-it/public/">
Allow From All
AllowOverride All
Options +Indexes
</Directory>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName "snipe-it.dev"
DocumentRoot "/Users/flashingcursor/Sites/snipe-it/public"
SetEnv LARAVEL_ENV development
</VirtualHost>
Loading up the sample data will give you an idea of how this should look, how your info should be structured, etc. It only pre-loads a handful of items, so you won't have to spend an hour deleting sample data.
php artisan db:seed
In dev mode, I use the fabulous Laravel Debugbar by @barryvdh. After you've installed/updated composer, you'll need to publish the assets for the debugbar:
php artisan debugbar:publish
The profiler is enabled by default if you have debug set to true in your app.php. You certainly don't have to use it, but it's pretty handy for troubleshooting queries, seeing how much memory your pages are using, etc.
If you're doing any development on this, make sure you purge the auto-loader if you see any errors stating the new model you created can't be found, etc, otherwise your new models won't be grokked.
php composer.phar dump-autoload
Application logs for this app are found in app/storage/logs, as is customary of Laravel.
Depending on your needs, you could probably run this system in an EC2 micro instance. It doesn't take up very much memory and typically won't be a super-high-traffic application. EC2 micros fall into the free/dirt-cheap tier, which might make this a nice option. One thing to note though - composer can be a little memory-intensive while you're running updates, and you may have trouble with it failing on a micro. You can crank the memory_limit up in php.ini, but EC2 micros have swap disabled by default, so even that may not cut it. If you run into totally unhelpful error messages while running composer updates (like simply 'Killed') or fatal memory issues mentioning phar, your best bet will be to enable swap:
sudo /bin/dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/swap.1 bs=1M count=1024
sudo /sbin/mkswap /var/swap.1
sudo /sbin/swapon /var/swap.1
If you need more than 1024 then change that to something higher.
To enable it by default after reboot, add this line to /etc/fstab:
/var/swap.1 swap swap defaults 0 0
Copyright (C) 2013 Alison Gianotto - snipe@snipe.net
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