In this tutorial we are going to provide you with step-by-step instructions on how to install Trident on an Ubuntu VPS.
Trident is one of the best open source social content management platforms. It is used to create responsive, highly customizable and easy to manage social network websites.
This install guide assumes that Apache, MySQL and PHP are already installed and configured on your server. At the time of this writing, the latest version of Trident is 8.0.
Download the latest version of Trident available at ‘http://www.online.me/page/download’ to the server and extract it using the following commands:
cd /opt wget http://ci.boonex.com/builds/Trident-v.8.0.0-B2.zip unzip Trident-v.8.0.0-B2.zip
Create a new MySQL database for Trident to use and assign a user to it with full permissions:
mysql -u root -p mysql> CREATE DATABASE tridentdb; mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON tridentdb.* TO 'tridentuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'your-password' WITH GRANT OPTION; mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES; mysql> quit
Note: Change ‘your-password’ with a strong password (with at least 8 characters that includes a combination of mixed case letters and numbers and special characters).
Create a new virtual host directive in Apache. For example, create a new Apache configuration file named ‘trident.conf’ on your virtual server:
touch /etc/apache2/sites-available/trident.conf ln -s /etc/apache2/sites-available/trident.conf /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/trident.conf
vi /etc/apache2/sites-available/trident.conf
then, add the following lines to it:
<VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin admin@yourdomain.com DocumentRoot /var/www/html/trident/ ServerName yourdomain.com ServerAlias www.yourdomain.com <Directory /var/www/html/trident/> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride All </Directory> ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/yourdomain.com-error_log CustomLog /var/log/apache2/yourdomain.com-access_log common </VirtualHost>
Restart the Apache web server for the changes to take effect:
service apache2 restart
Move the Trident installation files to the document root directory defined in the virtual host directive above:
mv /opt/Trident-v.8.0.0-B2/ /var/www/html/trident
Also, the web server user (www-data) needs to be able to write to ‘inc’, ‘cache’, ‘cache_public’, ‘logs’, ‘tmp’ and ‘storage’ directories so it can easily be accomplished by running the following command:
chown www-data:www-data -R /var/www/html/trident/
Change the permissions of ‘ffmpeg.exe’ file:
chmod 755 /var/www/html/trident/plugins/ffmpeg/ffmpeg.exe
Open your favorite web browser and navigate to your domain (i.e. http://yourdomain.com). Once you do that, you will be taken to the first screen of the Trident web installer. On the first step of the installation process, you need to add the necessary information about your Trident website paths, then enter database information:
Database host name: localhost Database host port number: 3306 Database name: tridentdb Database user: tridentuser Database password:your-password
Enter the site info, create a new administrator account and click ‘Submit’.
Setup a new cron job. For example, run the following command:
crontab -e
and add the following lines:
MAILTO=your@emailaddress.com * * * * * /usr/bin/php -q /var/www/html/trident/periodic/cron.php
Do not forget to change ‘your@emailaddress.com’ with your actual email address, then run:
service cron restart
After finishing the installation it is strongly recommended to delete all files and subdirectories from the install directory located to your Trident document root as a security precaution, so run the following command:
rm -rf /var/www/html/trident/install/
That is it. The Trident installation is now complete. Log in to the Administrator back-end area at http://yourdomain.com/studio to configure Trident according to your needs, add additional modules etc. and start building your Social Network website.
Of course you don’t have to do any of this if you use one of our Managed Ubuntu VPS Hosting services, in which case you can simply ask our expert Linux admins to install Trident for you. They are available 24×7 and will take care of your request immediately.
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