Installation process

This article contains instructions for installing the current (6th) generation of software. Installation of 5th and 4th generation software is not supported.

In this article, you can read about the BILLmanager installation process. The billing platform can be installed on a server that meets the server requirements.

License activation

License types are described in "Software licensing policy".

A trial license is activated automatically after you have installed BILLmanager on the server. You don't need to order a license.

If you want to use a commercial version you first need to purchase the license. Specify the public IP address of the server where the control panel will be installed.

If the server runs behind the NAT and IP address is assigned to its network interface, the BILLmanager license will be activated during the installation.Read more about the IP-address for the license.

Note:

If the server is located behind NAT or the license doesn't have IP-address or the IP-address is not on the server interface, then you must activate the license using the activation ke y.

Installation

The installation script will install BILLmanager and additional software applications the billing platform needs:

the database server — MariaDB;
the web-server — ihttpd;
the platform for JavaScript — Node.js.

SELinux will be disabled to allow for the correct installation of the billing platform.

Note:

Before you start, check that wget is installed on the server.

Installation steps:

Connect to the server via SSH with the superuser permissions (root). For more information about connecting via SSH, read the article Workstation setup.

Download the installation script:

wget https://download.ispsystem.com/install.eu.sh -O install.eu.sh

Start the script:
1. Execute the following command to install the latest version of the platform:
```
sh install.eu.sh BILLmanager
```
2. To install a specific platform version, run install.sh with the --release parameter. The version number is specified in the format described in the Changelog, e.g., 6.64.0.
```
sh install.eu.sh --release <version> BILLmanager
```
Select a version:
- s — Stable version — a version of the system that has been successfully beta tested;
- b — Beta version — a version with the latest updates, however still in the beta-testing phase;
  The installation script will connect ISPsystem repositories:
- ispsystem-base.repo — for installing additional software;
- ispsystem.repo — for installing ISPsystem control panels.

To configure BILLmanager please log in to the web interface.