Install Bludit on Ubuntu 16.04

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Install Bludit on Ubuntu 16.04

In this article, we will explain how to install Bludit on an Ubuntu 16.04 VPS with PHP-FPM and Nginx. Bludit is an open source, fast, simple, and extensible file-based content management system (CMS) application written in PHP. Bludit stores the data in a flat file (JSON format) so you don’t need to install or configure a database. With Bludit you will be able to easily and quickly build a fully functional site or blog in no time. This guide should work on other Linux VPS systems as well but was tested and written for an Ubuntu 16.04 VPS.

1. Login to your VPS via SSH with your sudo user

ssh user@vps_IP

2. Update the system and install necessary packages

[user]$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y upgrade
[user]$ sudo apt-get install nano wget unzip

3. Install PHP and required PHP modules

To install the latest stable version of PHP version 7.0 and all necessary modules, run:

[user]$ sudo apt-get -y install php-fpm php-cli php-json php-curl php-gd php-mysql php-mbstring php-xml

The following commands will set the PHP memory limit to 512MB, set fix_pathinfo to 0, change the values of upload_max_filesize and post_max_size to 100M and set the timezone to UTC.

sed -i "s/memory_limit = .*/memory_limit = 512M/" /etc/php/7.0/cli/php.ini
sed -i "s/;date.timezone.*/date.timezone = UTC/" /etc/php/7.0/cli/php.ini
sed -i "s/;cgi.fix_pathinfo=1/cgi.fix_pathinfo=0/" /etc/php/7.0/fpm/php.ini
sed -i "s/upload_max_filesize = .*/upload_max_filesize = 100M/" /etc/php/7.0/fpm/php.ini
sed -i "s/post_max_size = .*/post_max_size = 100M/" /etc/php/7.0/fpm/php.ini

Create a new PHP-FPM pool for your user if you already don’t have one:

[user]$ sudo nano /etc/php/7.0/fpm/pool.d/your_user.conf
[your_user]
user = your_user
group = your_user
listen = /var/run/php/php7.0-your_user-fpm.sock
listen.owner = your_user
listen.group = your_user
listen.mode = 0666
pm = ondemand
pm.max_children = 5
pm.process_idle_timeout = 10s
pm.max_requests = 200
chdir = /

Do not forget to change your_user with your username.
Restart PHP-FPM:

[user]$ sudo service php7.0-fpm restart

4. Download Bludit

Download the latest version of Bludit from the Bludit website.

[user]$ wget https://s3.amazonaws.com/bludit-s3/bludit-builds/bludit_latest.zip
[user]$ unzip bludit_latest.zip
[user]$ mv bludit ~/myBludit.com
[user]$ rm -f bludit_latest.zip

5. Install and configure Nginx

To install the latest stable version of Nginx available on the Ubuntu repositories, run:

[user]$ sudo apt-get install nginx

Next, create a new Nginx server block:

[user]$ sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/myBludit.com
server {
    listen 80;
    server_name myBludit.com;
    root /home/your_user/myBludit.com;
    index index.php;

    location / {
      try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
    }

    access_log  /var/log/nginx/myBludit.com.access.log;
    error_log   /var/log/nginx/myBludit.com.error.log;

    # Deny direct access to .txt files
    location ~* /bl-content/.*\.txt$ { 
        return 404; 
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.0-your_user-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        include fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        fastcgi_intercept_errors off;
        fastcgi_buffer_size 16k;
        fastcgi_buffers 4 16k;
    }

    location ~ /\.ht {
        deny all;
    }
}

Do not forget to change your_user with your username.

Activate the server block by creating a symbolic link :

[user]$ sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/myBludit.com /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/myBludit.com

Test the Nginx configuration and restart nginx:

[user]$ sudo nginx -t
[user]$ sudo service nginx restart

6. Install Bludit on Ubuntu 16.04

Open http://myBludit.com/ in your favorite web browser and you should see the Bludit install screen. On this page you’ll need to enter the admin details and click on the Install button.

That’s it. You have successfully installed Bludit on your Ubuntu 16.04 VPS. For more information about how to manage your Bludit installation, please refer to the official Bludit documentation.

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