The following are the dependecies, you can follow the steps to get them done, or skip if you have them already setup.

• VPS
• Web Server & SSL
• PHP >= 7.3
• MySQL
• NodeJS >= 12
• Python 3

Log into your server as root and make sure your server is entirely up-to-date. Use sudo if permission denied error occurs.

apt update

apt full-upgrade

You can use any web server, we will use Apache in this document.

Apache

Follow this section if you have a paid SSL

apt install -y apache2

[Or] Apache with Certbot

Follow this section if you want to use a free SSL

apt install -y software-properties-common

add-apt-repository ppa:certbot/certbot

apt install -y python-certbot-apache

Configure Apache

Add "ServerName yourdomain.in;" to below file and reload Apache.

vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/yourdomain.in.conf

apache2ctl configtest

systemctl reload apache2

SSL Certificates

Install SSL certificates with certbot.

certbot --apache -d yourdomain.in

Open the below file and append jupitermeet/public at the end of DocumentRoot.

vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default-le-ssl.conf

For ex: DocumentRoot /var/www/html/jupitermeet/public

In the same file add the following block after DocumentRoot

<Directory /var/www/html>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
    Require all granted
</Directory>


Enable the rewrite module

a2enmod rewrite

Restart the server

systemctl restart apache2

apt install software-properties-common

add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php

apt update

apt install -y php7.3

Install required extensions

apt install php7.3 php7.3-mbstring php7.3-mysqli php7.3-curl php7.3-dom php7.3-xml php7.3-xmlwriter php7.3-common php7.3-json php7.3-zip php7.3-bcmath php7.3-gettext -y

Verify

php -v

Install MySQL and phpMyAdmin.

Download and install NodeJS and NPM.

apt install -y curl

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_12.x | bash -

apt install -y nodejs

Install NodeJS modules

npm i

Install a process manager tool

npm i -g pm2

Verify

node -v

npm -v

Unzip the jupitermeet_pro folder into the web folder (/var/www/html).

cd /var/www/html/jupitermeet_pro

chmod -R 775 .

chown -R $USER:www-data .

• Create an empty database from phpMyAdmin

Now, you can continue to the Application setup step.