How to install Live Helper Chat on Linux mint 18.03
To install Live Helper Chat on Linux mint 18.03
Live-helper chat is a free, flexible, and open-source live support chat for your website. It is written in PHP and uses MySQL/MariaDB to store its data. It provides lots of features such as online user tracking, multiple chats, archive chat, user screenshots, file upload and much more. It also contains XMPP notifications, GTalk, Jabber, OpenFire, Chrome extension and Node.js support. This tutorial explains the installation procedure of Live helper chat on Linuxmint 18.03.
Prerequisites
To install LAMP(Apache, MariaDB, and php7.0)
In MariaDB (create database and user and give privileges to that user)
Php installation with required following modules
add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
apt-get update
apt-get install php7.0 php7.0-mysql php7.0-curl php7.0-json php7.0-cgi libapache2-mod-php7.0 php7.0-mcrypt php7.0-xmlrpc php7.0-gd php7.0-mbstring php7.0-common
php7.0-xmlrpc php7.0-soap php7.0-xml php7.0-intl php7.0-cli php7.0-ldap php7.0-zip php7.0-readline php7.0-imap php7.0-tidy php7.0-recode php7.0-sq php7.0-intl
Installation
Download a Live Helper Chat package using by wget command.
linuxhelp ~ # wget https://github.com/remdex/livehelperchat/archive/master.zip
\--2018-08-22 12:24:49-- https://github.com/remdex/livehelperchat/archive/master.zip
Resolving github.com (github.com)... 192.30.253.112, 192.30.253.113
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|192.30.253.112|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: https://codeload.github.com/remdex/livehelperchat/zip/master \[following\]
--2018-08-22 12:24:50-- https://codeload.github.com/remdex/livehelperchat/zip/master
Resolving codeload.github.com (codeload.github.com)... 192.30.253.120, 192.30.253.121
Connecting to codeload.github.com (codeload.github.com)|192.30.253.120|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified \[application/zip\]
Saving to: ‘master.zip’
master.zip [ <=> \] 9.60M 622KB/s in 17s
2018-08-22 12:25:08 (593 KB/s) - ‘master.zip’ saved \[10069240\]
The downloaded package is a zip file, so we need to unzip the package now.
linuxhelp ~ # unzip master.zip
Archive: master.zip
8cd23b44c076a62dbf303c84854566ed3784b124
creating: livehelperchat-master/
extracting: livehelperchat-master/.gitignore
inflating: livehelperchat-master/README.md
creating: livehelperchat-master/lhc\_web/
inflating: livehelperchat-master/lhc\_web/.gitignore
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creating: livehelperchat-master/lhc\_web/var/storagetheme/
inflating: livehelperchat-master/lhc\_web/var/storagetheme/.gitignore
creating: livehelperchat-master/lhc\_web/var/tmpfiles/
inflating: livehelperchat-master/lhc\_web/var/tmpfiles/.gitignore
creating: livehelperchat-master/lhc\_web/var/userphoto/
inflating: livehelperchat-master/lhc\_web/var/userphoto/.gitignore
inflating: livehelperchat-master/lhc\_web/webpack.config.js
Change the ownership and permission for the Live HelperChat directory
linuxhelp ~ # ls
livehelperchat-master master.zip
linuxhelp ~ # chown -R www-data:www-data livehelperchat-master/
linuxhelp ~ # chmod -R 775 livehelperchat-master/
Move the Live HelperChat directory into the /html location
linuxhelp ~ # mv livehelperchat-master/ /var/www/html/
Create a new virtual host configuration to accessing the Live Helper Chat application.
linuxhelp ~ # cd /etc/apache2/sites-available/
linuxhelp sites-available # vim livechat.conf
ServerName www.linuxhelp1.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/composer/
AllowOverride All
allow from all
Enable the site access.
linuxhelp sites-available # a2ensite livechat.conf
Enabling site livechat.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
service apache2 reload
Entry to the host file
linuxhelp sites-available # vim /etc/hosts
Then we need to restart the apache2 service
linuxhelp sites-available # systemctl restart apache2.service
Now we have to open a browser and type the following URL of http://local IP (or ) domain name
Checking your folders permission.
Fill the database details.
Fill the admin user details.
The installation successfully completed.
Here, give username and password.then, click login.
Finally, here you can see admin page of live helper chat.
With this, the method to install Live helper chat on linuxmint-18.03 comes to an end
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