Installation on Debian 8

This is installation documentation for installing Koel on Debian 8.

Install Dependancies

Most packages can be installed via apt-get.

user@debian:~/$ sudo apt-get install -y apache2 mysql-server php5 php5-mysql g++ git curl

Composer

More information about installing Composer can be found on its website here.

user@debian:~/$ sudo su
root@debian:/home/user# curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php -- --install-dir=/usr/bin --filename=composer
root@debian:/home/user# exit

Node

The node package in the default Debian repo is too old. There is more information about installing newer versions for Ubuntu and Debain here, but the following will be enough.

user@debian:~/$ sudo su
root@debian:/home/user# curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_4.x | bash -
root@debian:/home/user# exit
user@debian:~/$ sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

Prepare the database

Create the database, a user for the service, and then grant permissions for that user.

user@debian:~/$ mysql -u root -p
Enter password:
mysql> CREATE DATABASE koel DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 DEFAULT COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
mysql> CREATE USER 'koel-db-user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'koel-pass';
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON koel.* TO 'koel-db-user'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION;
mysql> exit;

sudo npm install --global bower gulp

sudo apt-get install -y nodejs npm

sudo npm update
bower update

Prepare the project

user@debian:~/$ git clone https://github.com/phanan/koel.git
user@debian:~/$ cd koel
user@debian:~/koel$ npm install --unsafe-perm

user@debian:~/koel$ composer install

Edit the .env file with the necessary configuration changes. Below are example configuration changes made via sed.

user@debian:~/koel$ sed -i 's/ADMIN_EMAIL=/ADMIN_EMAIL=admin@example.com/g' .env
user@debian:~/koel$ sed -i 's/ADMIN_NAME=/ADMIN_NAME=admin/g' .env
user@debian:~/koel$ sed -i 's/ADMIN_PASSWORD=/ADMIN_PASSWORD=admin-pass/g' .env
user@debian:~/koel$ sed -i 's/DB_DATABASE=homestead/DB_DATABASE=koel/g' .env
user@debian:~/koel$ sed -i 's/DB_USERNAME=homestead/DB_USERNAME=koel-db-user/g' .env
user@debian:~/koel$ sed -i 's/DB_PASSWORD=secret/DB_PASSWORD=koel-pass/g' .env

Now initialize the database and then start serving the site.

user@debian:~/koel$ php artisan koel:init
user@debian:~/koel$ php artisan serve

This will only allow connections from the localhost. If you would like to accept connections from other hosts, start the server by providing the ‘host’ option.

user@debian:~/koel$ php artisan serve --host 0.0.0.0

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