Install osTticket 1.11 on CENTOS 7

Install osTicket 1.11 on CENTOS 7

Assumptions:
Standard installation of CENTOS 7 minimal build 1810 completed with root access to SSH session and root access.
Deployment below is based on a fully updated OS available (as of January 2019) test on HyperV)

Copy/Paste the commands in BOLD.  Submit them one at a time, waiting for each action to complete.  

Install base packages

yum -y install epel-release*

sudo yum -y install httpd mariadb mariadb-server php php-mysql php-fpm php-cli php-xml php-common php-gd php-mbstring wget unzip php-opcache php-pecl-apcu php-intl php-imap

Install MySQL/MariaDB

systemctl start mariadb.service

systemctl enable mariadb.service 

mysql_secure_installation

Configure MYSQL

sudo mysql -u root -p

 Setup database tables. You can change anything in itelics to suit your installation ids

CREATE DATABASE osticket_db;

CREATE USER 'osticket_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'osticket_password';

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES on osticket_db.* TO 'osticket_user'@'localhost' ;

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

EXIT;

Install latest version (as of FEB 2019) of osTicket from GITHUB

cd /tmp/

wget https://github.com/osTicket/osTicket/releases/download/v1.11/osTicket-v1.11.zip

Unzip (defaults to 'upload' folder)

unzip osTicket-v1.11.zip  

Move it to apache web directory

sudo mv /tmp/upload /var/www/html/support

Set permissions

sudo chown apache: -R /var/www/html/support

Preinstall osTicket configs

cd /var/www/html/support/

sudo cp /var/www/html/support/include/ost-sampleconfig.php include/ost-config.php

Sets SELINUX to disable 

sed -i -r 's/SELINUX=enforcing/SELINUX=disabled/' /etc/selinux/config

Update Firewall Rules

sudo firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=80/tcp --permanent

sudo firewall-cmd --reload

This next command is super important.  This resolves the error "is currently unable to handle this request." When you try and login to (as of my testing) above 1.9.  If you have a different location name for your osTicket installation just alter the file path in the command.

sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/support/

Set config file ready for initial customization

sudo chmod 0666 /var/www/html/support/include/ost-config.php

service httpd restart

Test your install! 

http://IPofserver/support

You should see something like this screen, everything should be GREEN check marked.

Click on CONTINUE

You'll be at the osTicket basic information.  This section allows you to do some initial configs.

System Settings

HELP DESK NAME = The name that this trouble ticket system should be associated with.  Maybe the name of the company or project.

Default email is the email address that interaction with this ticket system will use.

Database settings

Use the settings that you configured when installing the the maria db

Once completed, click on INSTALL NOW

Once completed the initial configuration you'll see a window like this:

When you see this window, go back to your CLI and change the privileges from the configuration file.

chmod 0644 /var/www/html/support/include/ost-config.php

All Done!  Start using it!