Kimai The Open Source Time-Tracking App | DIY Cloud

Kimai is a free & open source time tracker for everyone. It tracks work time with views available for different time periods, by customer, or by project. In this video, we’ll cover how to install and use Kimai on Linode.

Chapters:
0:00 – Intro
1:30 – Getting Started
3:00 – Creating a Server
7:04 – Initial Server Setup
10:03 – Installing Dependencies
13:55 – Setting up the MySQL Database
17:32 – Install Composer
19:22 – Install Kimai
21:14 – Configure Kimai
24:00 – Create an admin account
26:00 – Configuring NGINX
30:00 – Testing the App
31:50 – Outro

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— Commands from video —
Dependencies:
sudo apt install nginx mysql-server php-fpm php-mysql git unzip curl

sudo systemctl status nginx
sudo systemctl status mysql

PHP Setup:
sudo apt install php-fpm php-mysql php-cli php-common php-json php-opcache php-readline php-xml php-zip php-intl php-gd php-mbstring php-curl

sudo systemctl status php7.4-fpm

Install Composer:
cd ~
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer -o composer-setup.php
sudo php composer-setup.php –version=1.10.17 –install-dir=/usr/local/bin –filename=composer
php composer-setup.php
php -r “unlink(‘composer-setup.php’);”
chmod +x composer.phar
sudo mv composer.phar /usr/bin/composer

Install Kamia:
cd /var/www/
sudo git clone -b 1.14.3 –depth 1 https://github.com/kevinpapst/kimai2.git
cd kimai2/
sudo composer install –no-dev –optimize-autoloader
sudo nano .env
bin/console kimai:install -n
bin/console kimai:create-user admin admin@example.com ROLE_SUPER_ADMIN

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Product: Linode, Kimai, Freelance; Josh KeepItTechie;

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