Setting up the Site

Let us create a new site and call it library.

Note: Before you create any new site, you need to activate the Barracuda storage engine on your MariaDB installation. Copy the following default ERPNext database settings into your my.cnf file.

[mysqld]

innodb-file-format=barracuda

innodb-file-per-table=1

innodb-large-prefix=1

character-set-client-handshake = FALSE

character-set-server = utf8mb4

collation-server = utf8mb4_unicode_ci

[mysql]

default-character-set = utf8mb4

You can then install a new site, by the command bench new-site library.

This will create a new database and site folder and install frappe (which is also an application!) in the new site. The frappe application has two built-in modules Core and Website. The Core module contains the basic models for the application. Frappé is a batteries included framework and comes with a lot of built-in models. These models are called DocTypes. More on that later.

$ bench new-site library

MySQL root password:

Installing frappe...

Updating frappe                     : [========================================]

Updating country info               : [========================================]

Set Administrator password:

Re-enter Administrator password:

Installing fixtures...

*** Scheduler is disabled ***

Site Structure

A new folder called library will be created in the sites folder. Here is the standard folder structure for a site.

.

├── locks

├── private

│   └── backups

├── public

│   └── files

└── site_config.json

public/files is where user uploaded files are stored.

private/backups is where backups are dumped

site_config.json is where site level configurations are maintained.

Setting Default Site

In case you have multiple sites on you bench use bench use [site_name] to set the default site.

Example:

$ bench use library

Install App

Now let us install our app library_management in our site library

Install library_management in library with: bench --site [site_name] install-app [app_name]

Example:

$ bench --site library install-app library_management