Learn How To Installing Pagekit CMS on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Table of Contents
- Requirements
- Before you begin
- Step 1 – Install PHP and required PHP extensions, MySQL and NGINX
- Step 2 – Configure NGINX
- Step 3 – Download and install Pagekit CMS
If you are using a different system, please check our other tutorials.
Pagekit is an open source CMS written in PHP. Pagekit source code is hosted on GitHub. This guide will show you how to install Pagekit CMS on a fresh Ubuntu 16.04 LTS IT Web Services instance.
Requirements
Make sure your server meets the following requirements.
- Apache 2.2+ or NGINX.
- MySQL Server 5.1+ or SQLite 3.
- PHP Version 5.5.9+.
- Required PHP extensions: JSON, Session, ctype, Tokenizer, SimpleXML, DOM, mbstring, PCRE 8.0+, ZIP and PDO with MySQL or SQLite drivers.
- Optional PHP extensions: cURL, iconv and XML Parser, as well as APC or XCache for caching.
Before you begin
Check the Ubuntu version.
lsb_release -ds
# Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
Create a new non-root
user account with sudo
access and switch to it.
adduser johndoe --gecos "John Doe"
usermod -aG sudo johndoe
su - johndoe
NOTE: Replace johndoe
with your username.
Set up the timezone.
sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
Ensure that your system is up to date.
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
Step 1 – Install PHP and required PHP extensions, MySQL and NGINX
Download and install PHP 7.0 and required PHP extensions. We will also install optional PHP extensions.
sudo apt install -y php7.0 php7.0-cli php7.0-fpm php7.0-mbstring php7.0-zip php7.0-mysql php7.0-sqlite3 php7.0-curl php7.0-simplexml php7.0-common
Check PHP version.
php --version
# PHP 7.0.22-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 (cli) ( NTS )
# Copyright (c) 1997-2017 The PHP Group
# Zend Engine v3.0.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2017 Zend Technologies
# with Zend OPcache v7.0.22-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, Copyright (c) 1999-2017, by Zend Technologies
Because there are many existing IT Web Services Docs detailing the installation of MySQL and NGINX, this article will only cover the configuration of NGINX.
Step 2 – Configure NGINX
Run sudo vim /etc/nginx/sites-available/pagekit.conf
and copy/paste the following.
server {
listen [::]:80;
listen 80;
server_name example.com;
index index.php index.html;
root /var/www/pagekit;
# PHP setup with query string support
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}
location ~ .php$ {
try_files $uri =404;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param HTTP_MOD_REWRITE On;
}
}
Activate the new pagekit.conf
configuration by linking the file to the sites-enabled
directory.
sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/pagekit.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
Test the NGINX configuration.
sudo nginx -t
Reload NGINX and restart PHP7.0-FPM.
sudo systemctl reload nginx.service
sudo systemctl restart php7.0-fpm.service
Step 3 – Download and install Pagekit CMS
Create a document root directory.
sudo mkdir -p /var/www/pagekit
Change ownership of the /var/www/pagekit
directory to johndoe
.
sudo chown -R johndoe:johndoe /var/www/pagekit
Navigate to document root.
cd /var/www/pagekit
Download the latest stable release of Pagekit CMS from the command line.
wget https://github.com/pagekit/pagekit/releases/download/1.0.13/pagekit-1.0.13.zip
Install unzip
package.
sudo apt install unzip
Unzip Pagekit CMS and remove downloaded zip file.
unzip pagekit-1.0.13.zip
rm pagekit-1.0.13.zip
Change ownership of the /var/www/pagekit
directory to www-data
.
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/pagekit
Open your domain/IP in the web browser and follow the Pagekit CMS installation wizard. After that you will have Pagekit installed on your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS server.
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