Osclass is an open source project that allows you to easily create a classified site without any technical knowledge. Its source code is hosted on Github. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Osclass on Ubuntu 18.04 server.
PHP version 5.6 or greater
MySQLi and GD modules for PHP
MySQL database
Nginx
Check the Ubuntu version.
lsb_release -ds
# Ubuntu 18.04 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
Install unzip.
sudo apt install -y unzip
Install PHP and required PHP extensions.
sudo apt install -y php7.2 php7.2-cli php7.2-fpm php7.2-common php7.2-mysql php7.2-gd php7.2-xml
Check the version.
php --version
# PHP 7.2.7-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 (cli) (built: Jul 4 2018 16:55:24) ( NTS )
# Copyright (c) 1997-2018 The PHP Group
# Zend Engine v3.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2018 Zend Technologies
# with Zend OPcache v7.2.7-0ubuntu0.18.04.2, Copyright (c) 1999-2018, by Zend Technologies
Install MySQL.
sudo apt install -y mysql-server
Check the version.
mysql --version && sudo mysqld --version
# mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.7.23, for Linux (x86_64) using EditLine wrapper
# mysqld Ver 5.7.23-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 for Linux on x86_64 ((Ubuntu))
Run mysql_secure installation script to improve security and set the password for the root user.
sudo mysql_secure_installation
Would you like to setup VALIDATE PASSWORD plugin? N
Please set the password for root here.
New password: **********************
Re-enter new password: **********************
Remove anonymous users? Y
Disallow root login remotely? Y
Remove test database and access to it? Y
Reload privilege tables now? Y
Success.
All done!
Connect to MySQL as the root user.
sudo mysql -u root -p
# Enter password
Create an empty MySQL database and user for Osclass, and remember the credentials.
CREATE DATABASE dbname;
GRANT ALL ON dbname.* TO 'username' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;
Install Nginx.
sudo apt install -y nginx
Check the version.
sudo nginx -v
# nginx version: nginx/1.14.0 (Ubuntu)
Run sudo vim /etc/nginx/sites-available/osclass.conf and populate the file with the following configuration.
server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
server_name example.com; # Check this
root /var/www/osclass; # Check this
index index.php index.html;
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
}
}
Activate the new osclass.conf configuration by linking the file to the sites-enabled directory.
sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/osclass.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
Test the configuration.
sudo nginx -t
Reload Nginx.
sudo systemctl reload nginx.service
Create a document root directory.
sudo mkdir -p /var/www/osclass
Change ownership of the /var/www/osclass directory to johndoe.
sudo chown -R johndoe:johndoe /var/www/osclass
Download and unzip the Osclass package.
cd /var/www/osclass
wget https://static.osclass.org/download/osclass.3.8.0.zip
unzip osclass.3.8.0.zip
rm osclass.3.8.0.zip
Change ownership of the /var/www/osclass directory to www-data.
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/osclass
Finally, open your favorite web browser and navigate to the URL http://your-server-ip/index.php or http://yourdomain.com/index.php. Complete the required steps to finish the installation. To access the Osclass admin site, append /oc-admin to your URL.