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Neos is a Content Application Platform with a CMS and an application framework at its core. This guide will show you how to install Neos CMS on a fresh Debian 9 server.
Nginx
MySQL version 5.7.7 or greater, MariaDB version 10.2.2 or greater or PostgreSQL version 9.4 or greater. In this guide we will use MariaDB.
PHP version 7.1.0 or greater with the following extensions:
mbstring
tokenizer
pdo_mysql
Check the Debian version.
lsb_release -ds
# Debian GNU/Linux 9.5 (stretch)
Ensure that your system is up to date.
apt update && apt upgrade -y
Install packages required for finishing this tutorial.
apt install -y sudo curl git unzip apt-transport-https vim dirmngr
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
Add the repository for newer versions of PHP.
sudo wget -O /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/php.gpg https://packages.sury.org/php/apt.gpg
echo "deb https://packages.sury.org/php/ $(lsb_release -sc) main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/php.list
sudo apt update
Install PHP 7.2 and required PHP extensions.
sudo apt install -y php7.2 php7.2-cli php7.2-fpm php7.2-common php7.2-mysql php7.2-xml php7.2-mbstring php-imagick
Check the version.
php --version
# PHP 7.2.8-1+0~20180725124257.2+stretch~1.gbp571e56 (cli) (built: Jul 25 2018 12:43:00) ( NTS )
Restart PHP-FPM.
sudo systemctl restart php7.2-fpm.service
Install MariaDB.
sudo apt install -y software-properties-common dirmngr
sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 0xF1656F24C74CD1D8
sudo add-apt-repository 'deb [arch=amd64,i386,ppc64el] https://mirrors.nxthost.com/mariadb/repo/10.2/debian stretch main'
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y mariadb-server
Check the version.
mysql --version && sudo mysqld --version
# mysql Ver 15.1 Distrib 10.2.16-MariaDB, for debian-linux-gnu (x86_64) using readline 5.2
# mysqld Ver 10.2.16-MariaDB-10.2.16+maria~stretch-log for debian-linux-gnu on x86_64 (mariadb.org binary distribution)
Run mysql_secure_installation to improve security and set the password for the root user.
sudo mysql_secure_installation
Connect to the MariaDB shell as the root user.
sudo mysql -u root -p
# Enter password
Create an empty MariaDB database and user for Neos CMS, and remember the credentials.
CREATE DATABASE dbname CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;
GRANT ALL ON dbname.* TO 'username' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
exit
Neos can work with many popular web servers. In this tutorial we will use Nginx.
Install Nginx.
sudo apt install -y nginx
Check the version.
sudo nginx -v
# nginx version: nginx/1.10.3
Run sudo vim /etc/nginx/sites-available/neos.conf and set up Nginx virtual server for Neos CMS.
server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
server_name example.com; # Check this
root /var/www/neos/Web; # Check this
index index.php;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock; # Check this
fastcgi_param FLOW_CONTEXT Production;
fastcgi_param FLOW_REWRITEURLS 1;
}
}
Save the file and exit.
Activate the new neos.conf configuration by linking the file to the sites-enabled directory.
sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/neos.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
Test the configuration.
sudo nginx -t
Reload Nginx.
sudo systemctl reload nginx.service
Install Composer globally by issuing the following commands.
php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"
php -r "if (hash_file('sha384', 'composer-setup.php') === '93b54496392c062774670ac18b134c3b3a95e5a5e5c8f1a9f115f203b75bf9a129d5daa8ba6a13e2cc8a1da0806388a8') { 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 1.7.1 2018-08-07 09:39:23
Create a document root directory.
sudo mkdir -p /var/www/neos
Change the ownership of the /var/www/neos directory to johndoe.
sudo chown -R johndoe:johndoe /var/www/neos
Go to your document root directory.
cd /var/www/neos
Install Neos CMS and all of its dependencies.
composer create-project --no-dev neos/neos-base-distribution .
Change ownership of the /var/www/neos directory to www-data.
sudo ./flow core:setfilepermissions johndoe www-data www-data
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/neos
Go to http://example.com/setup and follow the on-screen instructions.
You will get a confirmation that the setup has been completed, and that you can enter the front-end or back-end of your Neos website. To access Neos admin, append /neos to your website URL.