1. Installation Steps

Here are the steps to install LETS-Software on ubuntu 14.01 TLS

We will not cover the installation of Ubuntu here, please refer to the ubuntu web site for that.

1. Once ubuntu is install, open a terminal and login as root:

sudo su -

We first make sure we have the latest updates:

apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

apt-get install apache2 php5 php5-gd mysql-server unzip

2. Download and install LETS-software:

adduser letsuser

cd /var/www

wget https://github.com/lets-software/lets/archive/master.zip

unzip master.zip

Change the owner and permissions of the lets-master folder created by the previous command:

chown -R letsuser:www-data lets-master

chmod 775 lets-master

Edit the file lets-master/includes/configdb.php and change the credentials to match your database connexion settings:

vi lets-master/includes/configdb.php

$database_host = "localhost";
$database_name = "lets";
$database_user = "lets";
$database_password = "linux";

Go to your apache settings folder and setup LETS-Software

cd /etc/apache2/sites-available/

a2dissite 000-default.conf

cp 000-default.conf lets.conf

vi lets.conf

Change the file so it looks like the following:

<VirtualHost *:80>

        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
        DocumentRoot /var/www/lets-master
        <directory /var/www/lets-master>
                AllowOverride All
                Require all granted
        </directory>

        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

</VirtualHost>

Let's enable our new site:

a2ensite lets.conf

Enable the apache mode_rewrite:

a2enmod rewrite

Restart apache to take the new configuration into effect:

service apache2 restart

2. Once the installation is done, setup the site.

Now let's start configuring our software.

In a web browser type the IP address or the domain name that will point to your new site:

In our example it's "http://192.168.1.29" =>

You should arrive to the following page:

First step

Just click Next or F5

Second step

Encryption Key => This will be used to salt your password in the encryption process (I would recommend 20 or more characters)
Site Name => Give it the name of your LETS community is a good idea.
URL => Enter here the URL that will be use to access your site later.
IMPOTANT: Don't put an IP address if you want to access your site with a domain name, it will NOT WORK
Tips: If you make a mistake here during the installation you can still change it in the database, just change the value of the column "url" in the table "config".
File Path of index.php => Just copy and past what the example is showing should work (as we do an auto detect)

Third step

Important => This account will be the administrative account of your web site.
You will need to log on to the site with user name: "1" and the password you create here.

Step Four

For permissions => Start by pressing F5 a couple of time in case of error, in 90% of the case you will be fine.
If you still have some error, please set permissions manually.