This article is outdated and may not work correctly for current operating systems or software.
Microweber is an open source drag and drop CMS and online shop. Microweber source code is hosted on GitHub. This guide will show you how to install Microweber on a fresh Debian 9 Vultr instance.
Server requirements:
PHP version 5.6 or higher
PHP Extensions: gd, mcrypt and lib-xml; which must be enabled (with DOM support)
Nginx
MariaDB
Composer
Check the Debian version.
lsb_release -ds
# Debian GNU/Linux 9.4 (stretch)
Ensure that your system is up to date.
apt update && apt upgrade -y
Install the sudo package.
apt install -y sudo
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
Install PHP and the required PHP extensions.
sudo apt install -y php7.0 php7.0-cli php7.0-fpm php7.0-common php7.0-gd php7.0-mcrypt php7.0-mbstring php7.0-xml php7.0-mysql php7.0-pgsql php7.0-sqlite3 php7.0-zip php7.0-soap php7.0-xmlrpc
Check the version.
php --version
Install MariaDB.
sudo apt install -y mariadb-server
Check the version.
mysql --version
# mysql Ver 15.1 Distrib 10.1.26-MariaDB, for debian-linux-gnu (x86_64) using readline 5.2
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.
sudo 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 MariaDB.
exit
Install Nginx.
sudo apt install -y nginx
Check the version.
sudo nginx -v
Configure Nginx. Run sudo vim /etc/nginx/sites-available/microweber.conf and populate the file with the following.
server {
listen 80;
server_name example.com;
root /var/www/microweber;
index index.php;
client_max_body_size 100M;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri =404;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
}
}
Activate the new microweber.conf configuration by linking the file to the sites-enabled directory.
sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/microweber.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/microweber
Change ownership of the /var/www/microweber directory to johndoe.
sudo chown -R johndoe:johndoe /var/www/microweber
Install unzip.
sudo apt install -y unzip
Download the latest version of Microweber CMS and unzip it.
cd /var/www/microweber
wget https://download.microweberapi.com/ready/core/microweber-latest.zip
unzip microweber-latest.zip
rm microweber-latest.zip
Change ownership of the /var/www/microweber directory to www-data.
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/microweber
Open your domain name (http://example.com/) in your web browser and follow the instructions. After installation, your admin panel URL will be at http://example.com/admin.