phpwcms is a free and open source content management system and PHP development framework. It is very powerful, fast and flexible. It’s used by developers to create thousands of websites around the world. With its extensibility, phpwcms can create powerful websites with a lot of features. The admin area is easy to use with great user interface and beginners can easily adapt to it. In this tutorial we will guide you through the process of installing phpwcms on a CentOS 7 VPS with Apache web server, PHP and MariaDB
To start the installation, login to your CentOS 7 server as user root
ssh root@IP
As usual, run the following command to update all installed packages
yum -y update
Next, install Apache web server
yum -y install httpd
Once the installation of the web server is completed, start it and set it to start automatically on boot.
systemctl start httpd systemctl enable httpd
phpwcms is a PHP based application and we need to install PHP with the ‘mysql’ extensions installed
yum -y install php php-mysql
Run the following command on your terminal to install MariaDB server on your CentOS 7 server
yum -y install mariadb mariadb-server
Once the installation is completed start the MariaDB server and set it to start on system boot
systemctl start mariadb systemctl enable mariadb
Then, run the mysql_secure_installation script. This script will help you to improve the security of your MariaDB installation and set your MariaDB root password.
phpwcms requires an empty database, so login to the MariaDB server with the root user and create a new user and database that will be used by phpwcms to store information
mysql -u root -p CREATE DATABASE phpwcms; CREATE USER 'phpwcmsuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'PASSWORD'; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `phpwcms`.* TO 'phpwcmsuser'@'localhost'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES; exit
Don’t forget to replace ‘PASSWORD’ with an actual strong password.
Download the latest available phpwcms release from their official website to your server. Make sure that you are downloading the full release, and not a patch package.
wget https://github.com/slackero/phpwcms/archive/phpwcms-1.8.2.zip
Unpack the downloaded ZIP archive to the document root directory on your server
unzip phpwcms-1.8.2.zip -d /var/www/html/
This will create a new directory for phpwcms with the version number. Change the name of the directory to something simpler.
cd /var/www/html/ mv phpwcms-phpwcms-1.8.2 phpwcms
Set the Apache user as the owner of the phpwcms files and directories
chown -R apache: /var/www/html/phpwcms
On the next step we will create an Apache virtual host for your phpwcms based website. Create a ‘/etc/httpd/conf.d/vhosts.conf’ file with the following content:
IncludeOptional vhosts.d/*.conf
Create a ‘vhosts.d/’ directory
mkdir /etc/httpd/vhosts.d/
and create the virtual host with the following content
vim /etc/httpd/vhosts.d/yourdomain.com.conf <VirtualHost YOUR_SERVER_IP:80> ServerAdmin webmaster@yourdomain.com DocumentRoot "/var/www/html/phpwcms/" ServerName yourdomain.com ServerAlias www.yourdomain.com ErrorLog "/var/log/httpd/yourdomain.com-error_log" CustomLog "/var/log/httpd/yourdomain.com-access_log" combined <Directory "/var/www/html/phpwcms/"> DirectoryIndex index.html index.php Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride All Require all granted </Directory> </VirtualHost>
Save the file and restart the Apache web server for the changes to take effect.
systemctl restart httpd
With this step the installation from the command line is completed. Now, open a web browser and navigate it to http://yourdomain.com/setup/index.php, accept their terms and conditions and follow the on-screen instructions to complete the phpwcms installation.
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