I'm going to try getting Monica going again from the start today. So I start off today by wiping the virtual disk and reinstalling Debian.

Configure the Operating System

Steps performed on MONICA-01

• apt update
• apt install sudo
• /sbin/adduser david sudo
• nano /etc/network/interfaces

I set my network information and then reboot. Next I reconfigure SSH using the key I had already created.

• mkdir ~/.ssh
• nano ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

I copy/paste the public key in and save.

• chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
• sudo nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config
  • PermitRootLogin no
  • PubkeyAuthentication yes
  • PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes ssh-ed25519
  • PasswordAuthentication no
  • AuthorizedKeysFile /home/david/.ssh/authorized_keys

I save my changes.

• sudo sshd -t
• sudo systemctl restart ssh

Install Prerequisites

Steps performed on MONICA-01

• sudo apt update
• sudo apt install apache2
• sudo apt install git
• apt install -y php php-bcmath php-curl php-gd php-gmp php-intl php-mbstring php-mysql php-redis php-xml php-zip
• wget -q -O - https://getcomposer.org/installer | php -- --install-dir=/usr/local/bin/ --filename=composer
  • Composer (version 2.3.5) successfully installed to: /usr/local/bin/composer
  • Use it: php /usr/local/bin/composer
• wget -q -O https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_16.x | bash -
• apt install -y nodejs

Success!

• npm install --global yarn
• wget https://dev.mysql.com/get/mysql-apt-config_0.8.22-1_all.deb
• apt install ./mysql-apt-config_0.8.22-1_all.deb
• apt update
• apt install mysql-server mysql-client mysql-common

I set my MySQL root password and saved it to my password manager.

Installing Monica

Steps performed on MONICA-01

• cd /var/www/
• sudo git clone https://github.com/monicahq/monica.git
• cd /var/www/monica
• git fetch
• git checkout tags/v2/18.0
• mysql_secure_installation

Success!

• mysql -uroot -p
  • CREATE DATABASE monica CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;
  • CREATE USER 'monica'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'strongpassword';
  • GRANT ALL ON monica.* TO 'monica'@'localhost';
  • FLUSH PRIVILEGES
  • exit
• cp .env.example .env
• nano .env
  • APP_ENV=production
  • I also set the DB_Username and DB_Password. I update these values in my password manager.
• composer install --no-interaction --no-dev

Errors again.

• Your lock file does not contain a compatible set of packages. Please run composer update.
• Ocramius/package-versions is locked to version 1.5.1 and an update of this package was not requested.
• Ocramius/package-versions 1.5.1 requires composer-plugin-api ^1.0.0 -> found composer-plugin-api[2.3.0] but it does not match the constraint.
• Ocramius/package-versions 1.5.1 requires composer-plugin-api ^1.0.0 -> found composer-plugin-api[2.3.0] but it does not match the constraint.
• Jean85/pretty-package-versions 1.2 requires ocramius/package-versions ^1.2.0 -> satisfiable by ocramius/package-versions[1.5.1].
• Jean85/pretty-package-versions is locked to version 1.2 and an update of this package was not requested.

Well I try running composer update next.

• composer update

Error "Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages." It suggests using --with-all-dependencies (-W) to allow upgrades, downgrades, and removals of packages currently locked to specific version.

• composer update --with-all-dependencies

This gives me the exact same error message.

• composer update --ignore-platform-reqs

Same error again.

• composer update --ignore-platform-reqs --with-all-dependencies

Same error again.

• composer install --ignore-platform-reqs

It begins to run and my hope jumps. Shortly after it errors out. Script @php artisan package:discover handling the post-autoload-dump event returned with error code 1

Man what am I missing? I'm man enough to admit I am stuck, and when I get stuck it is best to take a step away and try again another day.