Install phpIPAM On Linux (Open-Source IP Address Management System)

This document provides instructions to install phpIPAM, an open-source IP address management application, on Linux. It describes downloading and configuring required software like Apache, MySQL, and PHP. It also explains cloning the phpIPAM code repository and configuring the application's database connection settings. The steps conclude by running the phpIPAM web installer to create the database and initialize the application.

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Address
What Management
is phpIPAM? System]
phpIPAM is an open-source web IP address management application (IPAM). It's goal is to
provide light, modern and useful IP address management. It is a php-based application
with a MySQL database backend, using jQuery libraries, ajax and HTML5/CSS3 features.
-https://phpipam.net/

Installation
1. Log into the Linux device
2. Run the following commands in a terminal window:
# update software repositories
sudo apt update
# install available software updates
sudo apt upgrade -y
# install prerequisites
sudo apt install curl wget zip git -y
# install Apache HTTPD and MySQL
sudo apt install apache2 mariadb-server mariadb-client
-y
# install PHP components
sudo apt install php7.4 php7.4-curl php7.4-common
php7.4-gmp php7.4-mbstring php7.4-gd php7.4-xml php7.4-
mysql php7.4-ldap php-pear -y
# configure the MySQL database
sudo su
mysql_secure_installation

3. Press Enter to login as root

4. Type N and press Enter to not switch to unix socket
authentication
5. Type Y and press Enter to set a root password, type the
password twice to con�irm
6. Type Y and press Enter to remove anonymous users
7. Type Y and press Enter to disallow root login remotely
8. Type Y and press Enter to remove the test database
9. Type Y and press Enter to reload privilege tables
10. Run the following command to login into MySQL:
mysql -u root -p

11. Authenticate with the root password set earlier

12. Run the following commands to create the phpIPAM
database and database user
CREATE DATABASE php_ipam;

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CREATE DATABASE php_ipam;

GRANT ALL ON php_ipam.* to 'php_ipam_rw'@'localhost'
IDENTIFIED BY 'P4P1p@m!!';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;
exit

13. Continue with the following commands:

# git clone phpipam to the webroot
sudo git clone https://github.com/phpipam/phpipam.git
/var/www/html/phpipam
# cd into the new directory
cd /var/www/html/phpipam
# checkout the latest release
sudo git checkout "$(git tag --sort=v:tag | tail -n1)"
# set the owner of the phpipam directory
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/phpipam
# copy sample config file
sudo cp /var/www/html/phpipam/config.dist.php /var/www
/html/phpipam/config.php
# edit config.php
sudo nano /var/www/html/phpipam/config.php

14. Update the database connection details

$db['host'] = '127.0.0.1';
$db['user'] = 'php_ipam_rw';
$db['pass'] = 'P4P1p@m!!';
$db['name'] = 'php_ipam';
$db['port'] = 3306;

15. Below the database connection, add the following line to

de�ine the BASE variable
de�ine('BASE', "/phpipam/");

16. Press CTRL+O, Enter, CTRL+X to write the changes

17. Continue with the following commands:
# enable mod_rewrite
sudo a2enmod rewrite
# restart apache2 service
sudo systemctl restart apache2

phpIPAM Web Installer

1. Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP
/phpipam
2. The phpipam Installation web installer should be load
3. Click the New phpipam installation button
4. Click the Automatic database installation button
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4. Click the Automatic database installation button

5. Complete the database form as follows
MySQL/MariaDB username: php_ipam_rw
MySQL/MariaDB password: P4P1p@m!!
MySQL/MariaDB database location: 127.0.0.1
MySQL/MariaDB database name: php_ipam

6. Click the Show advanced options button

7. Uncheck Create new database and Set permissions to
tables > Click the Install phpipam database button
8. Once the database is initialized, click the Continue button
9. Enter and con�irm an admin user password > Click Save
settings
10. Click the Proceed to login button
11. Login with the username admin and the admin password
set earlier
12. Welcome to phpIPAM

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