Guide: Easy Install ERPNext on DigitalOcean Successfully tested

ERPNext
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These are the steps on a clean DigitalOcean Droplet (1 GB Memory / 25 GB Disk / LON1 - Ubuntu 16.04.3 x64)

# SSH into the machine
ssh root@machineip

# Prerequisites
sudo apt-get update -y
sudo apt-get upgrade -y
sudo apt-get install python-minimal -y
sudo apt-get install build-essential python-setuptools -y

# Adding Frappe User as sudoer and switching into it
sudo adduser frappe
usermod -aG sudo frappe
su frappe
cd /home/frappe/

# Easyinstaller
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/frappe/bench/master/playbooks/install.py
sudo python install.py --develop

NOTE:
As far as I see it if you bench start right after installing it with easy installer it won’t work.

SO, After a bench update and then bench start all seems good.

(Tested by Dominik Ottenbreit)

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Hi! Thank you for the brief tutorial. Did you also try migrating an existing app from gcp to digital ocean?

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On typing the below command

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/frappe/bench/master/playbooks/install.py
sudo python install.py

i get the below error message

wget : unable to resolve host address install.py

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This Installation steps doesn’t work for me at all. I tried on Ubuntu 16.04 & 18.04. In both cases running install.py - it does few things for some time and eventually the system just goes unresponsive. The only way to recover is to reset the machine.

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Try with following steps on Ubuntu 18.04.

SSH into the machine

ssh root@machineip

$ apt install python3-minimal build-essential python3-setuptools

$ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/frappe/bench/master/playbooks/install.py

$ export LC_ALL=C.UTF-8

$ python3 install.py --production --user frappe_dev

Note: frappe_dev is the new user account

  • The script should then prompt you for the MySQL root password and an Administrator password for the Frappe/ERPNext instance, which will then be saved under HOME/passwords.txt of the user used to setup the instance. This script will then install the required stack, setup bench and a default ERPNext instance.

$ sudo passwd frappe_dev

  • Above command, help to change the password of frappe_dev user

Adding frappe_dev User as sudoer and switching into it

$ usermod -aG sudo frappe_dev
$ su frappe_dev
$ cd ~/frappe-bench

$ bench set-config developer_mode 1
-Above command will enable developer mode

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