2.6.0 Release Notes - 3 June 2016

Status: Stable

2.6.0 is a stable release, and all users of Blis version 2.5.0 are encouraged to adopt it.

Release Notes

Assets
Source code (zip)
Source code (tar.gz)

Instructions

Requirements

  1. Supported database. Currently only MySQL has been tested. Laravel also supports PostgreSQL, SQLite and SQL Server
  2. PHP (>= 5.4)
  3. Composer - Dependency manager for PHP

Quick Start

  1. Install the above mentioned requirements

  2. Download this git repository to a local folder: https://github.com/ilabafrica/iBLIS/archive/2.6.zip

  3. Change directory to the root folder of the application. Update composer then run it in order to install the application dependencies. You may need root permissions to update composer.:

    composer self-update
composer install

  4. Update the application configuration files to suit your local settings:

    • Set the “Application URL” in /app/config/app.php
    • Create a database and set the database connection details in /app/config/database.php
    • The organization name in /app/config/kblis.php

  5. Run the migrations to create the required database tables:

    php artisan migrate

  6. Load the basic seed data:

    php artisan db:seed

  7. If you are running the application on a webserver eg. apache, ensure that the webserver has write permissions to the /app/storage folder. Ideally the web-root should be the /public folder. The default login credentials are ‘administrator’ ‘password’

  • If #5 or #6 above fails, you may need to run the following command then repeat the two commands again.

Troubleshooting

  • Ensure that you enable mod_rewrite, sudo a2enmod rewrite if you are using apache. This should solve the problem of routing failures.

Feature List

The list of features is available here