Installation Overview

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Cloud Hosting

Check this list of requirements you'll need to have ready before you get started with an ItemPath Cloud license.

Installing ItemPath hosted in the cloud is simpler than ever. We take care of setup, so the first step to running ItemPath is opening your welcome email. This introductory email includes details like the IP address, recovery key, and your link to ItemPath.

In the User Sign-Up form pictured below, enter the details of your first user. (Once in, you'll be able to add additional users in the User panel.)

On-Premise Hosting

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1. Pre-installation

Before installing ItemPath on-premise, you'll need a few things. Click here for system requirements and what Power Pick setup will be needed before getting started.

2. Configuration Files

Once ItemPath is ordered, you’ll receive two configuration files that will be needed during the install process.

docker-compose.yml — This will store all the boot-up procedures for ItemPath, including running the web server, API, and other services
appdata.db — This is the initial internal database for ItemPath, storing users, reports, settings, and other data

A) Installing via Docker (Recommended)

The installation process using Docker is the preferred method, and can be broken down into a few simple steps:

1. Local user is created and has root/sudo permissions.
2. Confirm Docker 19 or greater is installed on the virtual machine by running docker version in the terminal. If Docker is not installed, instructions can be found here.
3. Install Docker Compose 1.22 or greater. Installation instructions can be found here.

B) Installing via Podman

Installing ItemPath using Podman is a supported alternative option and requires a few additional steps:

1. Local user is created and has root/sudo permissions.
2. Confirm Podman 3.4 or greater is installed on the virtual machine.
3. Make sure podman-docker, podman-plugins and docker-compose packages are installed using:
sudo yum install -y podman-docker docker-compose podman-plugins
4. Confirm the Podman socket is running by running:
sudo systemctl enable podman.socket
sudo systemctl start podman.socket
sudo systemctl status podman.socket
5. Add the docker host variable by running:
export DOCKER_HOST=unix:///run/user/$UID/podman/podman.sock

3. Local Files & Database

Once Docker and Docker Compose have been installed, you’ll want to take the docker-compose.yml file that’s been provided to you and put that in the local user directory (~/).
From the terminal, run the following commands to create the local folder for ItemPath:
mkdir -p ~/ItemPath/files
mkdir -p ~/ItemPath/data
mkdir -p ~/ItemPath/data/tmp

After doing so, you’ll want to put the appdata.db file you received during preinstallation into the ~/ItemPath/data folder.
To select and lock your version of ItemPath, you can tag the images the images in the docker-compose.yml file with the version number you want to be pulled in when the docker-compose pull command is run. See this guide to learn how.

4. ItemPath Installation

From Dockerhub

First, you’ll need to log in to Docker to download the ItemPath images.

To do this, run docker login

You’ll be prompted to enter a username and password, which will be provided to you by the ItemPath support team.

From the terminal, it’s time to download ItemPath. Navigate to the directory containing the docker-compose.yml file by typing cd ~. Then, download ItemPath using the command docker-compose pull (or docker compose pull, depending on your version of Docker Compose).

Note: In order to run Docker commands as a non-root user, follow this guide to avoid using the "sudo" command.

From Outside the Internet

If you’re installing ItemPath from outside the Internet, you can load ItemPath’s Docker images using the Docker load syntax.

In Docker for example, docker load < itempath_api.tar

In Podman, podman load < itempath_api.tar

Make sure to load each image separately. There should be 8 images in total.

Congratulations on setting up ItemPath on-premise!

5. ItemPath Startup & Shutdown

To start up ItemPath:

Run ItemPath from the user directory (~/) by running from the terminal: docker-compose up -d. This should start ItemPath and all of its running containers.

You can confirm ItemPath is running by visiting localhost in a browser, or by visiting the IP address of the host machine.

To shut down ItemPath:

Stop ItemPath from the user directory (~/) by running from the terminal: docker-compose down. This should stop ItemPath and all of its running containers.

To restart ItemPath:

You can stop and restart ItemPath at the same time from the user directory (~/) by running from the terminal: docker-compose down && docker-compose up -d. This should stop ItemPath and all of its running containers, then relaunch each one.

Note: If using Docker Compose V2, you will use docker compose (no hyphen) instead of docker-compose.