How to Install WinterCMS on Arch Linux

WinterCMS is a powerful, free and open-source content management system for creating websites and applications. If you want to install WinterCMS on Arch Linux, follow these easy steps.

Prerequisites

Before starting the installation, you'll need to ensure that your Arch Linux system is up-to-date and also install some necessary dependencies using the following commands:

sudo pacman -Syu
sudo pacman -S git nginx php php-fpm composer mariadb

Installation

1. Clone the WinterCMS repository from Github:

   git clone https://github.com/wintercms/winter.git
   

2. Change to the WinterCMS directory and install dependencies:

   cd winter
   composer install
   

3. Copy .env.example to .env and edit the configuration file as per your requirements.

   cp .env.example .env
   nano .env
   

4. Install the required PHP extensions

   sudo pacman -S php-gd php-mbstring php-imagick php-zip
   

5. Configure Mariadb

   sudo mysql_install_db --user=mysql --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql
   sudo systemctl start mariadb
   

6. Create a database and user for WinterCMS

   sudo mysql -u root -p
   create database winter;
   create user 'winteruser'@'localhost' identified by 'password';
   grant all privileges on winter.* to 'winteruser'@'localhost';
   flush privileges;
   quit;
   

7. Create a virtualhost in NGINX

   sudo nano /etc/nginx/conf.d/winter.conf
   

   Paste the contents of below block in the file

   server {
        listen 80;
        server_name www.yourwebsite.com;
        root /path/to/wintercms/public/;
        index index.php index.html;
   
        location / {
            try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
        }
   
        location ~ \.php$ {
            root /path/to/wintercms/public/;
            fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.sock;
            fastcgi_index index.php;
            fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
            include fastcgi_params;
        }
   }
   

8. Restart NGINX and PHP-FPM

   sudo systemctl restart php-fpm
   sudo systemctl restart nginx
   

9. Open the website in your browser:

   http://www.yourwebsite.com/
   

   And you are done.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed WinterCMS on Arch Linux. You can now start building your website with this powerful CMS.

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