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How to Install Thelia 2.3 on Ubuntu 16.04

Last Updated: Fri, Jun 22, 2018
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Thelia is an open source tool for creating e-business websites and managing online content written in PHP. Thelia source code is hosted on GitHub. This guide will show you how to install Thelia on a fresh Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Vultr instance.

Requirements

  • PHP

  • Required PHP extensions: pdo_mysql, openssl, intl, gd, curl, dom

  • safe_mode off

  • memory_limit at least 128M, preferably 256M.

  • upload_max_filesize: 2M

  • date.timezone must be defined

  • Nginx

  • MySQL

Check the Ubuntu version.

lsb_release -ds

# Ubuntu 16.04.4 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 PHP

Install PHP, as well as the required PHP extensions.

sudo apt install -y php php7.0-cli php7.0-fpm php7.0-common php7.0-intl php7.0-mbstring php7.0-xml php7.0-mysql php7.0-dom php7.0-curl php7.0-gd php7.0-zip

Check the version.

php --version

Install MySQL

Install MySQL.

sudo apt install -y mysql-server

Check the version.

mysql --version

# mysql  Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.7.21, for Linux (x86_64) using  EditLine wrapper

Run the mysql_secure_installation script to improve the security of your MySQL installation.

sudo mysql_secure_installation

Log in to MySQL as the root user.

mysql -u root -p

# Enter password:

Create a new MySQL 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

Install Nginx.

sudo apt install -y nginx

Check the version.

sudo nginx -v

Configure Nginx. Run sudo vim /etc/nginx/sites-available/thelia.conf and populate the file with the following.

server {



  listen 80;

  server_name example.com; # Check this

  root /var/www/thelia/web/; # Check this

  index index.php;



  location / {

    try_files $uri $uri/ @rewriteapp;

  }



  location @rewriteapp {

    rewrite ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 last;

  }



  location ~ ^/(index|index_dev)\.php(/|$) {

    fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock; # Check this

    fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.*)$;

    include fastcgi_params;

    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;

  }



  # ###################################################

  # After installation remove /install/ location block.

  # and restart Nginx

  # ###################################################

  location /install/ {

    alias /var/www/thelia/web/install/; # Check this

    location ~ ^/install/.+\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|pdf|zip)$ {

      expires 30d;

      access_log off;

      log_not_found off;

    }

    location ~ ^/install/(.+\.php)$ {

      alias /var/www/thelia/web/install/$1; # Check this

      fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock; # Check this

      fastcgi_index index.php;

      fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;

      include fastcgi_params;

    }

  }

  # ###################################################



}

Activate the new thelia.conf configuration by linking the file to the sites-enabled directory.

sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/thelia.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/

Test the configuration.

sudo nginx -t

Reload Nginx.

sudo systemctl reload nginx.service

Install Thelia

Navigate to the /var/www directory.

cd /var/www

Install unzip.

sudo apt install -y unzip

Download the latest release of Thelia and unzip it.

sudo wget https://thelia.net/download/thelia.zip

sudo unzip thelia.zip

sudo rm thelia.zip

sudo mv thelia_2.3.4/ thelia

Go to the Thelia directory.

cd /var/www/thelia

Change ownership of the /var/www/thelia directory to www-data.

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/thelia

Run sudo vim /etc/php/7.0/fpm/php.ini and set post_max_size to 20M.

post_max_size = 20M

Restart php-fpm.

sudo systemctl restart php7.0-fpm.service

In your favorite browser, navigate to http://example.com/install and follow the Thelia installation wizard. To access the Thelia administration interface, append /admin to your URL.

After installing Thelia, remove the web/install directory.

sudo rm -rf /var/www/thelia/web/install

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