PluXml is a lightweight and simple to use Content Management System (CMS) written in PHP. In this tutorial, we will go through the steps to install PluXml on your Elementary OS.
Before we start, make sure you have the following:
First, we need to download the latest version of PluXml from the official website.
We can either download it manually and upload it to our server or simply use the following command to download it directly:
wget https://github.com/pluxml/PluXml/releases/download/5.8.4/pluxml-5.8.4.zip
Once the download is complete, navigate to the directory where the file was downloaded.
We will then need to unzip the file by running the following command:
unzip pluxml-5.8.4.zip
This will extract all the necessary files into a pluxml directory.
After the extraction is complete, we need to move the pluxml directory to the document root of our webserver.
By default, the document root for Apache on Elementary OS is /var/www/html/.
We can move the PluXml directory by running the following command:
sudo mv pluxml /var/www/html/
To ensure that PluXml is able to read and write files, we need to set permissions on the files and directories.
We can do this by running the following commands:
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/pluxml
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/pluxml
The first command sets the ownership of the pluxml directory to the webserver's user www-data, while the second command sets file permissions to 755.
PluXml needs a MySQL database to store its content.
We can create a new MySQL database by running the following command:
mysql -u root -p
This will open the MySQL prompt. Next, we can run the following commands to create a new database, user, and grant the necessary privileges:
CREATE DATABASE pluxml;
CREATE USER 'pluxmluser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON pluxml.* TO 'pluxmluser'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Make sure to replace password with a strong password.
After completing the previous steps, we can now install PluXml by navigating to http://localhost/pluxml in our web browser.
Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation process. When prompted, enter the database details we created in the previous step.
In this tutorial, we have successfully installed PluXml on Elementary OS. You can now use it to build your own lightweight CMS-powered website.
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