How to install Heimdall Application Dashboard on Ubuntu 16.04

From their GitHub Page:

As the name suggests Heimdall Application Dashboard is a dashboard for all your web applications. It doesn’t need to be limited to applications though, you can add links to anything you like.

 

Heimdall is an elegant solution to organise all your web applications. It’s dedicated to this purpose so you won’t lose your links in a sea of bookmarks.

Why not use it as your browser start page? It even has the ability to include a search bar using either Google, Bing or DuckDuckGo.

https://github.com/linuxserver/Heimdall

Installation:

Dependencies:  PHP >= 7.0.0, OpenSSL PHP Extension, PDO PHP Extension, Mbstring PHP Extension, Tokenizer PHP Extension and XML PHP Extension, SQLite

Install dependencies:

apt-get -y install apache2

apt-get -y install php7.0 libapache2-mod-php7.0

apt-get -y install sqlite

apt-get -y install php7.0-mbstring php7.0-xml php7.0-common php7.0-sqlite3

Enable mod_rewrite

a2enmod rewrite

service apache2 restart

Clone latest Heimdall app from GitHub:

We will be installing it to /opt/heimdall/

git clone https://github.com/linuxserver/Heimdall.git /opt/heimdall

Set permissions on the folder:

chown -R www-data:www-data /opt/heimdall/

chmod -R 755 /opt/heimdall/

 

Prepare the symbolic link for the WebRoot:

Removing the old HTML folder (web root)

rm -R /var/www/vhosts/tylermade.net/httpdocs

Linking the web root symbolically, to the directory that will be serving your app ( /opt/heimdall/public/ )

ln -s /opt/heimdall/public/ /var/www/vhosts/tylermade.net/httpdocs

 

Configure apache site:

You can do this a number of ways, like creating a new configuration file, but I chose to edit the default configuration.

nano /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf

It should look something like this:

 

<VirtualHost *:80>

        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
        DocumentRoot /var/www/vhosts/tylermade.net/httpdocs/

        DirectoryIndex index.php index.html default.php welcome.php
        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

</VirtualHost>

        <Directory /var/www/vhosts/tylermade.net/httpdocs/>
            Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
            AllowOverride all
            Order allow,deny
            allow from all
        </Directory>

 

 

Test it!

Browsing to the IP of your server should bring you to the homepage of your system.

 

 

Clicking on “Add an application here” should direct you to the next page; if it results in error, please make sure the mod_rewrite is functioning and the directory configuration is complete in the Apache site conf.

 

I hope this helps!

 

https://heimdall.site/