How to Install WinterCMS on Alpine Linux Latest

WinterCMS is a free, open-source content management system based on the popular Laravel PHP framework. In this tutorial, we will go through the steps of installing WinterCMS on Alpine Linux Latest.

Prerequisites

Before we start, make sure you have the following:

• Access to a terminal with root privileges
• A web server (we will use Nginx in this tutorial)
• PHP installed with required extensions
• Composer installed

Step 1: Update the System

Before installing any new packages, it's always better to update the existing ones.

apk update && apk upgrade

Step 2: Install Required Packages

To install WinterCMS, we need to have some packages installed on the system. Run the following command to install necessary dependencies:

apk add --no-cache nginx php7 php7-fpm php7-json php7-session php7-mbstring php7-ctype php7-mcrypt php7-openssl php7-pdo_mysql php7-tokenizer composer

Step 3: Create a Virtual Host for WinterCMS

Create a new server block file for Nginx:

vi /etc/nginx/conf.d/wintercms.conf

Add the following content:

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name example.com;
    root /var/www/wintercms/public;

    index index.php;

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

    location ~ \.php$ {
        fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;

        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        include fastcgi_params;
    }
}

Step 4: Download and Install WinterCMS

Now we will download and install WinterCMS using Composer.

cd /var/www
composer create-project wintercms/winter wintercms
cd wintercms
php artisan winter:install

This will download the latest version of WinterCMS and install it in the /var/www/wintercms directory.

Step 5: Configure Permissions

Set the ownership of the WinterCMS directory to the webserver user and group:

chown -R nginx:nginx /var/www/wintercms

Step 6: Start Nginx and PHP-FPM Services

rc-service nginx start
rc-service php-fpm7 start

Step 7: Access WinterCMS

Open a web browser and navigate to http://example.com. You should see the WinterCMS page.

That's it! You now have installed WinterCMS on Alpine Linux Latest. Happy coding!

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