Install Novius OS on a CentOS 7 VPS

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logo-novius-os-hdNovius OS is an open source cross-channel content management system designed as an applications platform. In this blog article we will explain how to install Novius OS on a CentOS 7 VPS with Apache, PHP and MariaDB,

Log in to your server as user root and make sure that all packages are up to date

yum -y update

Novius OS needs a blank SQL database, so we will install MariaDB server

yum install mariadb mariadb-server

Start the MariaDB database server and enable the service at boot time

systemctl start mariadb
systemctl enable mariadb

Run the ‘mysql_secure_installation’ post installation script to secure MariaDB and set your MariaDB root password

Log in to the MariaDB server using the ‘root’ user and create new database and user

mysql -u root -p
CREATE DATABASE noviusos;
CREATE USER 'noviusosuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'PASSWORD';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `noviusos`.* TO 'noviusosuser'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

Next, we will install Apache web server

yum install httpd

Start the Apache web server and add it to automatically start on the system start-up

systemctl start httpd
systemctl enable httpd

Install PHP and few PHP modules

yum install php php-mysql php-common

Change the current working directory to Apache’s document root directory.

cd /var/www/html/

Download and execute Novius OS’s installation script using the following command

wget http://raw.github.com/novius-os/ci/master/dubrovka/tools/install.sh && sh install.sh

You will be prompted to enter an installation directory for Novius OS. If you want to use the default ‘novius-os’ directory just press enter and wait the installation process to complete.

Change the owner of the ‘novius-os’ directory

chown -R apache:apache novius-os/

PHP configuration directive ‘short_open_tag’ must be on in order to run Novius OS, so we need to edit the PHP configuration file. Execute the following command to find the location of the file

php --ini

Configuration File (php.ini) Path: /etc
Loaded Configuration File:         /etc/php.ini
Scan for additional .ini files in: /etc/php.d

We need to edit the loaded configuration file. Open the ‘/etc/php.ini’ file and make sure that the ‘short_open_tag’ directive is set to ‘On’.

In order to access Novius OS using your domain name, you need to create Apache virtual host. Create ‘/etc/httpd/conf.d/vhosts.conf’ directory with the following content

vim /etc/httpd/conf.d/vhosts.conf
 
IncludeOptional vhosts.d/*.conf

Create the virtual host

vim /etc/httpd/vhosts.d/yourdomain.tld.conf


ServerAdmin webmaster@yourdomain.tld
DocumentRoot "/var/www/html/yourwebsite"
ServerName yourdomain.tld
ServerAlias www.yourdomain.tld
ErrorLog "/var/log/httpd/yourdomain.tld-error_log"
CustomLog "/var/log/httpd/yourdomain.tld-access_log" combined

<Directory "/var/www/html/yourdomain.tld/">
DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted

and restart Apache for the changes to take effect.

systemctl restart httpd

Open you favourite web browser, navigate to http://yourdomain.tld/ and follow the steps of the setup wizard to complete the installation.

Once everything is completed, execute the following commands

rm /var/www/html/novius-os/public/htdocs/install.php
chmod og-w /var/www/html/novius-os/local/config

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