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PyroCMS is an open source CMS written in PHP. PyroCMS source code is hosted on GitHub. In this guide we'll walk through the entire PyroCMS installation process on a Fedora 28 Vultr server instance.
Before you can install PyroCMS on a server, there are a few requirements that need to be met.
At least 1GB of RAM
A LEMP or LAMP stack, in this guide we'll be using Nginx
PHP version 7.0 or greater
The following PHP extensions:
PDO
cURL
SQLite
OpenSSL
Mbstring
Fileinfo
Tokenizer
GD Library version 2.0 or greater; or Imagick version 6.5.7 or greater
Check the OS version.
cat /etc/fedora-release
# Fedora release 28 (Twenty Eight)
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.
Ensure that your system is up to date.
sudo dnf check-upgrade || sudo dnf upgrade -y
Set up the timezone.
timedatectl list-timezones
sudo timedatectl set-timezone 'Region/City'
Install required and useful packages.
sudo dnf install -y wget vim unzip bash-completion
For simplicity, disable SELinux and Firewall.
sudo setenforce 0
sudo systemctl stop firewalld
sudo systemctl disable firewalld
Download and install PHP and required PHP extensions.
sudo dnf install -y php-cli php-fpm php-mysqlnd php-curl php-sqlite3 php-mbstring php-gd php-xml php-json
Check the PHP version.
php --version
# PHP 7.2.6 (cli) (built: May 22 2018 16:22:08) ( NTS )
Enable and start php-fpm.service.
sudo systemctl start php-fpm.service
sudo systemctl enable php-fpm.service
Download and install MariaDB.
sudo dnf install -y mariadb-server
Check the MariaDB version.
mysql --version
Start and enable MariaDB.
sudo systemctl enable mariadb.service
sudo systemctl start mariadb.service
Run the mysql_secure_installation script to improve the security of your MariaDB installation.
sudo mysql_secure_installation
Log into MariaDB as the root user.
mysql -u root -p
# Enter password:
Create a new MariaDB database and user, and remember the credentials.
create database dbname;
grant all on dbname.* to 'username' identified by 'password';
flush privileges;
Exit MySQL.
exit
Install Nginx.
sudo dnf install -y nginx
Check the Nginx version.
nginx -v
Start and enable Nginx.
sudo systemctl enable nginx.service
sudo systemctl start nginx.service
Configure Nginx as a FastCGI proxy. Run sudo vim /etc/nginx/conf.d/pyro.conf and populate it with the following text.
server {
listen 80;
server_name example.com; # Check this
root /var/www/pyro/public; # Check this
index index.php index.html;
charset utf-8;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php-fpm/www.sock; # Check this
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
}
NOTE: Make sure to point the web root to Pyro's public directory.
Test the Nginx configuration.
sudo nginx -t
Reload Nginx.
sudo systemctl reload nginx.service
Download the Composer dependencies.
sudo dnf install -y curl git unzip
Download and install Composer, the dependency manager for PHP.
php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"
php -r "if (hash_file('SHA384', 'composer-setup.php') === '544e09ee996cdf60ece3804abc52599c22b1f40f4323403c44d44fdfdd586475ca9813a858088ffbc1f233e9b180f061') { 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 Composer version.
composer --version
# Composer version 1.6.5 2018-05-04 11:44:59
Create a document root directory.
sudo mkdir -p /var/www/pyro
Change the ownership of the /var/www/pyro directory to johndoe.
sudo chown -R johndoe:johndoe /var/www/pyro
Download the latest stable release of PyroCMS from the command line.
cd /var/www/pyro
composer create-project pyrocms/pyrocms .
NOTE: You may run out of memory when installing Pyro via Composer. It may be wise to stop Nginx, PHP-FPM and MariaDB with sudo systemctl stop nginx.service php-fpm.service mariadb.service to save on memory usage and start them again after this step. If that doesn't help you to avoid errors with Composer, then you'll need to setup Swap.
Change the ownership of the /var/www/pyro directory to nginx.
sudo chown -R nginx:nginx /var/www/pyro
Run sudo vim /etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf and set the user and group to nginx.
sudo vim /etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf
# user = nginx
# group = nginx
Restart the php-fpm.service.
sudo systemctl restart php-fpm.service
Using your preferred web browser, open your site and follow the PyroCMS installer. After following the installer you will have PyroCMS up and running. To access the PyroCMS admin area, append /admin to your site URL.