Install October CMS on an Ubuntu VPS with Nginx and MariaDB_MySQL

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In this post, we will cover how to install October CMS on anUbuntu VPSwith Nginx and MariaDB. October is a free, open-source, self-hosted CMS platform , written in PHP and it’s built upon the Laravel framework. This should work on otherLinux VPSsystems as well but was tested and written for Ubuntu 14.04.

Update the system and install necessary packages.

root@vps:~# apt-get -y update && apt-get -y upgraderoot@vps:~# apt-get install python-software-properties curl git

Install MariaDB and create a database.

root@vps:~#apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 0xcbcb082a1bb943dbroot@vps:~# add-apt-repository 'deb http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/mariadb/repo/10.0/ubuntu trusty main'root@vps:~# apt-get -y updateroot@vps:~# echo -e "Package: */nPin: origin ftp.osuosl.org/nPin-Priority: 1000" | tee /etc/apt/preferences.d/mariadbroot@vps:~# apt-get install mariadb-serverroot@vps:~# mysql -uroot -pMariaDB [(none)]> create database octobercms;MariaDB [(none)]> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON octobercms.* TO 'octobercms'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'octobercmsPassword'MariaDB [(none)]> flush privileges;MariaDB [(none)]> /q;

Install PHP and Nginx

apt-get install nginx php5-fpm php-cli php5-mysql php5-mcrypt php5-curl php5-sqlite

Install Composer

root@vps:~# curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | phproot@vps:~# mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

Create a root directory for your web site and download the application source code

root@vps:~# mkdir -p /var/www/yourwebsite.com/{public_html,logs}root@vps:~# cd /var/www/yourwebsite.com/public_htmlroot@vps:~# composer create-project october/october public_html dev-master

Configuration

Open the file app/config/app.php and change:

'url' => 'http://yourwebsite.com'

Open the file app/config/cms.php and change:

'activeTheme' => 'demo','backendUri' => '/admin'

Open the file app/config/database.php and and set the database connection parameters.

Run the following artisan commands”

php artisan key:generatephp artisan october:up

Nginx.

Create a new Nginx server block with the following content

root@vps:~# cat  /etc/nginx/sites-available/yourwebsite.comserver { server_name yourwebsite.com;    listen 80;  root /var/www/yourwebsite.com/public_html;  access_log /var/www/yourwebsite.com/logs/access.log;    error_log /var/www/yourwebsite.com/logs/error.log;  index index.php;    location / {        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;  }   location ~ /.php$ {     fastcgi_index index.php;        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+/.php)(.*)$;        fastcgi_keep_conn on;       include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;      fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;       fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;   }   location ~ //.ht {      deny all;   }}EOF

Symlink it and restart the server

root@vps:~# ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/yourwebsite.com /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/yourwebsite.comroot@vps:~# /etc/init.d/nginx restart

Set the correct permissions

root@vps:~# chown -R www-data: /var/www/yourwebsite.com/public_html/

That’s it. Now open your browser, type the address of your website and use the default username admin and password admin.

Please check the official October website for more details.

Of course you don’t have to do any of this if you use one of ourLinux VPS Hostingservices, in which case you can simply ask our expert Linux admins to set this up for you. They are available 24×7 and will take care of your request immediately.

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