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Craft CMS is an open source CMS written in PHP. Craft CMS source code is hosted on GitHub. This guide will show you how to install Craft CMS with Nginx on a fresh Fedora 29 Vultr instance.
Craft requires the following:
PHP version 7.0 or greater with the following extensions:
ctype
curl
gd or imagemagick
iconv
json
mbstring
openssl
pcre
pdo
pdo mysql
pdo postgresql
reflection
spl
zip
intl
dom
MySQL version 5.5 or greater with InnoDB, MariaDB version 5.5 or greater, or PostgreSQL version 9.5 or greater
At least 256MB of memory allocated to PHP
At least 200MB of free disk space
Nginx
MariaDB
Composer
Check the Fedora version.
cat /etc/fedora-release
# Fedora release 29 (Twenty Nine)
Create a new non-root user account with sudo access and switch to it.
useradd -c "John Doe" johndoe && passwd johndoe
usermod -aG wheel johndoe
su - johndoe
NOTE: Replace johndoe with your username.
Set up the timezone.
timedatectl list-timezones
sudo timedatectl set-timezone 'Region/City'
Ensure that your system is up to date.
sudo dnf update -y
Install necessary packages.
sudo dnf install -y wget vim unzip bash-completion
Disable SELinux and Firewall.
sudo setenforce 0 ; sudo systemctl stop firewalld ; sudo systemctl disable firewalld
Install PHP.
sudo dnf install -y php-cli php-fpm php-mysqlnd php-mcrypt php-gd php-mbstring php-json php-curl php-xml php-common php-zip
Check the version.
php --version
Start and enable PHP-FPM.
sudo systemctl start php-fpm.service
sudo systemctl enable php-fpm.service
Install MariaDB.
sudo dnf install -y mariadb-server
Check the version.
mysql --version
Start and enable MariaDB.
sudo systemctl start mariadb.service
sudo systemctl enable mariadb.service
Run the mysql_secure_installation script to improve the security of your installation.
sudo mysql_secure_installation
Log in to MariaDB as the root user.
mysql -u root -p
# Enter password:
Create a new database and user, and remember the credentials.
create database dbname;
grant all on dbname.* to 'username' identified by 'password';
flush privileges;
exit
Install Nginx.
sudo dnf install -y nginx
Check the version.
nginx -v
Start and enable Nginx.
sudo systemctl start nginx.service
sudo systemctl enable nginx.service
Configure Nginx. Run sudo vim /etc/nginx/conf.d/craft.conf and populate the file with the following.
server {
listen [::]:80;
listen 80;
server_name example.com;
root /var/www/craft/web;
index index.html index.htm index.php;
charset utf-8;
location / {
try_files $uri/index.html $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}
location ~ [^/]\.php(/|$) {
include default.d/php.conf;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php-fpm/www.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;
fastcgi_param HTTP_PROXY "";
}
}
Test the configuration.
sudo nginx -t
Reload Nginx.
sudo systemctl reload nginx.service
Install Composer.
php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"
php -r "if (hash_file('SHA384', 'composer-setup.php') === '48e3236262b34d30969dca3c37281b3b4bbe3221bda826ac6a9a62d6444cdb0dcd0615698a5cbe587c3f0fe57a54d8f5') { echo 'Installer verified'; } else { echo 'Installer corrupt'; unlink('composer-setup.php'); } echo PHP_EOL;"
php composer-setup.php
php -r "unlink('composer-setup.php');"
sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
Check the version.
composer --version
# Composer version 1.8.4 2019-02-11 10:52:10
NOTE: Craft can be downloaded with Composer or by manually downloading a .zip or .tar.gz archive. The end result will be the same, so go with whichever route you feel more comfortable with.
Create a document root directory.
sudo mkdir -p /var/www/craft
Change ownership of the /var/www/craft directory to johndoe.
sudo chown -R johndoe:johndoe /var/www/craft
Navigate to the document root.
cd /var/www/craft
Download the latest stable release of Craft CMS via composer.
composer create-project craftcms/craft .
Change ownership of the /var/www/craft directory to nginx.
sudo chown -R nginx:nginx /var/www/craft
Run sudo vim /etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf and set the user and group to nginx. Initially, it will be set to apache.
sudo vim /etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf
# user = nginx
# group = nginx
Create the /var/lib/php/session/ directory and change ownership to nginx.
sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/php/session && sudo chown -R nginx:nginx /var/lib/php/session
Restart PHP-FPM.
sudo systemctl restart php-fpm.service
In your web browser, go to http://<Hostname>/index.php?p=admin/install, substituting <Hostname> with your web server’s host name. You will be greeted by Craft’s Setup Wizard. To access Craft's administrative interface, append /admin to your IP/domain.