How to install October CMS on CentOS 7

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We’ll show you, how to install October CMS on CentOS 7. October CMS is a free content management software based on the Laravel PHP Framework, with the best back-end user interface ever seen in a CMS.
In this tutorial, we will show you the steps needed to install October CMS on a CentOS 7 VPS.

At the time of writing this tutorial, the latest stable version of October CMS is October CMS build 347 and it requires:

Requirements:

PHP 5.5.9 or higher, compiled with cURL, PDO, OpenSSL, Mbstring ZipArchive and GD PHP Library enabled.
Apache Web Server 2.0 or higher compiled with mod_rewrite module;
MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL or SQLite.

This install guide assumes that Apache and MySQL (or MariaDB) are already installed and configured on your virtual server.

CentOS 7 comes with PHP 5.4.16 version installed via yum, not PHP 5.5 or higher. In order to install PHP 5.5.9 or higher, add the EPEL and Webtatic EL yum repositories information to yum:

wget https://mirror.webtatic.com/yum/el7/epel-release.rpm
rpm -Uvh epel-release.rpm
wget https://mirror.webtatic.com/yum/el7/webtatic-release.rpm
rpm -Uvh webtatic-release.rpm

Remove php 5.4 version and install php 5.6

yum remove php-common
yum install php56w php56w-opcache php56w-cli php56w-common php56w-gd php56w-mbstring php56w-mysql php56w-pdo unzip

Restart Apache for the changes to take effect:

systemctl restart  httpd.service

Download the latest version of October CMS available at ‘http://octobercms.com/download’ to a directory on the server and extract it using the following commands:

cd /opt/
wget http://octobercms.com/download -O octobercms.zip
unzip octobercms.zip -d /var/www/html/octobercms/

Create a new MySQL database for October CMS on your server:

mysql -u root -p
Enter password:
Welcome to the MariaDB monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MariaDB connection id is 2
Server version: 5.5.47-MariaDB MariaDB Server
Copyright (c) 2000, 2015, Oracle, MariaDB Corporation Ab and others.
Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.
MariaDB [(none)]> create database octobercmsdb;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)
MariaDB [(none)]> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON octobercmsdb.* TO 'octobercms'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'Y0uR-Passw0rD';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
MariaDB [(none)]> flush privileges;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
MariaDB [(none)]> quit
Bye

Create a new virtual host directive in Apache. For example, edit your Apache configuration file (‘/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf’ by default) and un-comment the following line:

#NameVirtualHost *:80

Then, add the following lines at the end:

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin admin@yourdomain.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/octobercms/install-master/
ServerName yourdomain.com
ServerAlias www.yourdomain.com
<Directory /var/www/html/octobercms/install-master/>
    DirectoryIndex index.php
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
    Require all granted
</Directory>
    ErrorLog logs/yourdomain.com-error_log
    CustomLog logs/yourdomain.com-access_log common
</VirtualHost>

Run the following command to set proper permissions:

chown apache:apache -R /var/www/html/octobercms/

Restart the Apache service for the changes to take effect:

systemctl restart httpd.service

Open http://yourdomain.com in your favorite browser and follow the easy instructions.

If all requirements are met, click ‘Agree & Continue’ and on the next page, enter MySQL database information:

Database Type: MySQL
MySQL Host: localhost
MySQL Port: 3306
Database Name: octobercmsdb
MySQL Login: octobercms
MySQL Password: Y0uR-Passw0rD

Click ‘Administrator’ and enter admin login credentials, then click ‘Continue. If you want to install October without any plugins or themes, click ‘Start from scratch’. Our recommendation is to click ‘Start from a theme’, select a theme and click ‘Install’. You can easily customize it later via admin back-end.
For security reasons you should delete the installation files, the install.php script and the install_files directory.

rm -rf /var/www/html/octobercms/install-master/install_files/
rm -rf /var/www/html/octobercms/install-master/install.php

Add the following cron entry to your server in order for scheduled tasks to operate correctly:

* * * * * php /var/www/html/octobercms/install-master/artisan schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1

Editing the crontab is commonly performed with the command ‘crontab -e’.

Log into the administration area at http://yourdomain.com/backend and customize your website according to your needs.

That is it. The October CMS installation is now complete.

Of course you don’t have to install October CMS on CentOS 7 if you use one of our CentOS VPS Hosting services, in which case you can simply ask our expert Linux admins to install October CMS on CentOS 7 for you. They are available 24×7 and will take care of your request immediately.

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