Learn How To Install Dotclear on Debian 9 (Stretch)
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Dotclear is a very simple blogging engine. It is open-source and easy to use. This tutorial will go through the installation on An ITWeb.Services high performance SSD VPS running Debian 9.
Prerequisites
- IT Web Services VPS with Debian 9
- Apache2, PHP and MySQL/MariaDB (LAMP stack)
- An SSH client of your choice to access the VPS.
- wget (
apt install wget)
Log into your IT Web Services VPS as root using SSH. Navigate to your web root directory, usually /var/www/html/, and delete everything to prepare the directory for the Dotclear installation:
cd /var/www/html
rm * -rf
Also, make sure Apache owns this directory:
chown www-data:www-data . -R
MySQL Setup
We need to create a database for Dotclear. First, login to the MySQL shell:
mysql -u root -p
Then, create a new database and assign a new user to it. Replace password with a password of your choice. The password should be complex and long enough to adhere to the best security practices:
CREATE DATABASE dotclear;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON dotclear.* TO dotclearuser@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
q
Dotclear Installation
Ensure that your session is still in the var/www/html folder.
cd /var/www/html
Download the Dotclear loader PHP script:
wget https://download.dotclear.org/loader/dotclear-loader.php
Open a web browser of your choice and navigate to http://your_vps_ip/dotclear-loader.php and follow the instructions. During the installation, you will be asked for database details. Use the following details. Be sure to replace password with the password you chose earlier:
Database type: MySQLi
Database Host Name: localhost
Database Name: dotclear
Database User Name: dotclearuser
Database Password: password
Finally, continue along to complete the installation.
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