How to Install Bolt CMS on Alpine Linux Latest

Bolt CMS is a free and open source content management system built using PHP that allows you to create and manage websites with ease. This tutorial will guide you step-by-step on how to install Bolt CMS on Alpine Linux Latest operating system.

Prerequisites

• A running instance of Alpine Linux Latest
• Root access or a regular user with sudo privileges
• A web server like Nginx or Apache installed and configured.

Step 1: Install Required Dependencies

Before we can start installing Bolt CMS, we need to ensure that all the necessary packages are installed. Run the following command to update the system:

sudo apk update && sudo apk upgrade

Now, install the required dependencies:

sudo apk add git nginx php7 php7-dom php7-fpm php7-ctype php7-gd php7-iconv php7-json php7-mbstring php7-opcache php7-openssl php7-pdo php7-pdo_mysql php7-session php7-simplexml php7-xml php7-zip php7-zlib

Step 2: Configure and Start Nginx

Bolt CMS is a PHP-based application, and it requires a web server to serve web pages. In this tutorial, we will use Nginx web server. Configuring an Nginx server is beyond the scope of this guide, but we'll provide you with a basic Nginx configuration to get started.

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name your_domain.com;
    root /var/www/bolt;
    index index.php;
    error_log /var/log/nginx/bolt_error.log;
    access_log /var/log/nginx/bolt_access.log;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
    }

    location ~* \.php$ {
        fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        include fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        fastcgi_param PHP_VALUE "error_log=/var/log/nginx/bolt_error.log";
    }
}

After saving the above configuration, start the Nginx webserver using the following command:

sudo systemctl start nginx

Step 3: Download and Install Bolt CMS

To download and install Bolt CMS, create a new directory for our project:

sudo mkdir /var/www/bolt

Then, navigate to the newly created directory and clone the latest Bolt CMS repository from its official GitHub page:

cd /var/www/bolt
sudo git clone https://github.com/bolt/bolt.git .

After cloning the repository, install the Bolt dependencies using Composer:

sudo curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | sudo php -- --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer
sudo composer install --no-dev --optimize-autoloader

Now, update the Nginx configuration file with the directory path of Bolt CMS:

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name your_domain.com;
    root /var/www/bolt/public;
    index index.php;
    error_log /var/log/nginx/bolt_error.log;
    access_log /var/log/nginx/bolt_access.log;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
    }

    location ~* \.php$ {
        fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        include fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        fastcgi_param PHP_VALUE "error_log=/var/log/nginx/bolt_error.log";
    }
}

Finally, restart the Nginx service to apply changes:

sudo systemctl restart nginx

Step 4: Access Bolt CMS

Now, you can access Bolt CMS by visiting your server IP address or domain name in a web browser. Congratulations, you’ve successfully installed Bolt CMS on Alpine Linux.

Conclusion

This tutorial guided you through the installation of Bolt CMS on Alpine Linux Latest OS. We hope you find this guide useful in your journey to create a website using Bolt CMS. If you encounter any difficulties or have any questions, feel free to ask in the comments section below.

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