Torque

Redis administration for humans. (www.TorqueApp.org)

Installation Guide

Prerequisites

Before running Torque, please make sure you have the following enabled/installed on your machine:

• Redis
• Apache 2.x
• Composer
• Git cli
• PHP v 5.6 or above with the following extensions:
  • mbstring
  • php-xml

Step 1. Download Torque

This will download the latest version of Torque under the directory /var/www/html/torque.app

> cd /var/www/html
> git clone https://github.com/soubhikchatterjee/torque.git torque.app

Step 2. Run composer update

This will download the required packages for Torque.

> cd torque.app
> composer update

Step 3. Create .env file

> cp .env.example .env

Step 4. Clear Laravel cache and the compiled classes

> php artisan cache:clear
> php artisan clear-compiled

Step 5. Change the storage and cache directories permission

> sudo chmod -R 777 storage
> sudo chmod -R 777 bootstrap/cache

Step 6. Generate a new key for Torque

> php artisan key:generate

Step 7. Add a virtual host

> cd /etc/apache2/sites-available
> sudo cp 000-default.conf torque.conf

Step 8. Edit the torque.conf file

> sudo vi torque.conf

and replace the current content with the following:

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerName torque.app
        ServerAlias www.torque.app
        ServerAdmin admin@torque.app
        DocumentRoot /var/www/html/torque.app/public
        ErrorLog /var/www/html/torque.app/storage/logs/apache_error.log
        CustomLog /var/www/html/torque.app/storage/logs/apache_access.log combined

		<Directory "/var/www/html/torque.app/public">
			Allowoverride All
		</Directory>

</VirtualHost>

Step 9. Enable the new virtual host

> sudo a2ensite torque.conf

Step 10. Run configtest

Run the configtest command to check whether there are any errors in the newly added configuration files

> sudo apachectl configtest

Step 11. Adding the domain torque.app to the hosts file.

> sudo vi /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1       torque.app

Flush local DNS cache

sudo /etc/init.d/dns-clean start

Step 12. Make sure mod_rewrite is enabled

> sudo a2enmod rewrite

Step 13. Reload & Restart Apache

> sudo service apache2 reload
> service apache2 restart

You should be all set now! 👍

You can access Torque by hitting the link http://torque.app in your web browser.