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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 Fedora 28 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 modules:
mbstring
tokenizer
pdo_mysql
Minimum of 2GB or RAM
Check the Fedora 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 build tools and packages required for finishing this tutorial.
sudo dnf install -y curl git unzip vim ImageMagick
For simplicity, disable SELinux and Firewall.
sudo setenforce 0 ; sudo systemctl stop firewalld ; sudo systemctl disable firewalld
Install PHP and required PHP extensions.
sudo dnf install -y php-cli php-fpm php-common php-mysqlnd php-xml php-mbstring php-imagick php-json php-opcache php-process php-imap php-intl
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 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 database and user for Neos CMS, and remember the credentials.
MariaDB [(none)]> CREATE DATABASE dbname CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;
MariaDB [(none)]> GRANT ALL ON dbname.* TO 'username' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
MariaDB [(none)]> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
MariaDB [(none)]> exit
Neos can work with many popular web servers. In this tutorial we will use Nginx.
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
Run sudo vim /etc/nginx/conf.d/neos.conf and set up the 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$ {
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.(?:php|phar))(/.*)$;
fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php-fpm/www.sock;
fastcgi_param FLOW_CONTEXT Production;
fastcgi_param FLOW_REWRITEURLS 1;
}
}
Save the file and exit by pressing :WQ.
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
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 nginx.
sudo chown -R nginx:nginx /var/www/neos
sudo ./flow core:setfilepermissions johndoe nginx nginx
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
Restart PHP-FPM.
sudo systemctl restart php-fpm.service
Go to http://example.com/setup and follow the on-screen instructions.
You’ll get a confirmation the setup is completed, and you can enter the front-end or back-end of your Neos website. To access Neos admin append /neos to your website URL.