Notice

WallacePOS is EOL. It is no longer being maintained by micwallace/wallacepos.

This repo is being kept as inspiration for a new POS using seprate frontend and backend technologies powered by Laravel & React.

If you are wanting to test out this software there will be a docker file added to this repo so that it can be run in a container.

It is not recommended to deploy WallacePOS in a production evniroment

Original Instlation Guide

Below is the original installation guide if you would like to try out WallacePOS on bare metal.

It is not recommended to deploy WallacePOS in a production evniroment

Server Prerequisites

WallacePOS requires:

1. A Lamp server with PHP version>=5.4, PHP cURL & GD extensions and Apache version>=2.4.7 with modules rewrite, proxy_http and proxy_wstunnel.

   • You can enable the modules by typing the following in your terminal

       sudo a2enmod proxy_http proxy_wstunnel rewrite
       sudo apt-get install php5-curl php5-gd
       sudo service apache2 restart
   

   • The following virtual host snippet in your apache config, replace %*% with your values and modify to your needs.

       <VirtualHost *:443>
            DocumentRoot %/your_install_dir%
            ServerName %your.server.fqdn%
   
            ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
            CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
   
            SSLEngine on
                SSLCipherSuite !ADH:!DSS:!RC4:HIGH:+3DES:+RC4
                SSLProtocol all -SSLv2 -SSLv3
                SSLCertificateFile %certificate_location%
                SSLCertificateKeyFile %key_location%
                SSLCertificateChainFile %cert_chain_location%
   
            <Directory %/your_install_dir%>
               AllowOverride all
            </Directory>
   
            # WSPROXY CONF
            ProxyRequests Off
            ProxyPreserveHost On
            <Proxy *>
                    Order deny,allow
                    Allow from all
            </Proxy>
            RewriteEngine On
            RewriteCond %{HTTP:Connection} Upgrade [NC]
            RewriteRule /(.*) ws://localhost:8080/$1 [P,L]
            ProxyPass        /socket.io http://localhost:8080/socket.io/
            ProxyPassReverse /socket.io http://localhost:8080/socket.io/
            <Location /socket.io>
                    Order allow,deny
                    Allow from all
            </Location>
       </VirtualHost>
   

   Note: Using plain http is not recommended.

2. Node.js installed along with the socket.io library

   For a Debian distro:

       sudo apt-get update
       sudo apt-get install nodejs && apt-get install npm
       cd %/your_install_dir%/api
       sudo npm install socket.io
   

Installation & Startup

1. Clone the latest WallacePOS release to %your_install_dir% if you haven't done so already. The installation dir must be your Apache document root directory!

2. Run composer install in your install directory to update PHP dependencies (you may need to install composer first).

3. Run cd /api then node server.js

4. Visit /installer in your browser & follow the installation wizard.

5. Login to the admin dashboard at /admin, from the menu go to Settings -> Utilities and make sure the feed server has been started successfully.