Self Host Install without Composer

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Hi,

I´ve read the link articles for self hosting invoice ninja, but I don´t want to install the composer. Is it possible to install invoice ninja without the composer?

I´ve uploaded and unzipped the files. Database is created and nginx conf is created and active. But there is no setup folder. When I try to access /setup I get: No input file specified.

What is the exact way to setup invoice ninja?

Best,

Ben

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Hi,

Composer is only needed if you download the files from GitHub. If you use the zip from our self host page (https://www.invoiceninja.com/knowledgebase/self-host/) the vendor files are already included.

‘Setup’ is a route, not a folder. You may want to check that mod_rewrite is enabled. Using the Bitnami installer (https://bitnami.com/stack/invoice-ninja) can be a much easier way of getting setup.

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Hi,

thanks. There was set the wrong fastcgi host. Now I get to the setup page, but after click on submit I get Whoops there went something wrong. No error at the error log, I tested mysql connection und sent a test mail. What could be the problem?

Best,

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There are usually two error log files: the web server log and the Laravel log at storage/logs/laravel.log

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Webserver Log is empty. Laravel log has old errors, which are not referenced to the current time. This is an old error:
production.ERROR: Illuminate\Session\TokenMismatchException [0] : /var/kunden/web1423/www/ninja/vendor/compiled.php [Line 2548] =>
{“context”:“PHP”,“user_id”:0,“user_name”:"",“url”:"/setup",“user_agent”:“Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/44.0.2403.130 Safari/537.36”,“ip”:“62.249.64.”,“count”:1}

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You can enable showing errors to the screen by setting APP_DEBUG to true in the .env file.

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Thanks! proc_open was disabled. Could you post the link to translate invoice ninja?

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https://github.com/hillelcoren/invoice-ninja/blob/master/resources/lang/en/texts.php

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Maybe it is helpful for someone:

I change the Setting “PHP support”, PHP run as “FAST-Cgi” to “Apache”, and it works.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14555996/no-input-file-specified

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Thanks for sharing the solution!