CouchCMS is a free and open-source content management system that allows you to create and manage dynamic websites easily. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install CouchCMS on EndeavourOS Latest.
Before you start the installation process, make sure that you have:
To download the latest version of CouchCMS, go to the official CouchCMS website https://www.couchcms.com/download and download the ZIP package file.
# cd /tmp
# wget https://www.couchcms.com/downloads/couchcms_latest.zip
Once the download is complete, extract the downloaded ZIP package using the following command:
# unzip couchcms_latest.zip
This command will extract the CouchCMS files to the current directory.
After extracting the files, move the extracted CouchCMS files to your web server's document root directory. In this tutorial, we will be using the default document root directory for Apache web server on EndeavourOS, which is /srv/http.
# mv couchcms /srv/http/
Next, you need to set the correct permissions for the CouchCMS files so that the web server can read and write the files.
# chown -R http:http /srv/http/couchcms/
Before you can install CouchCMS, you need to create a database where CouchCMS will store its data. You can use either MySQL or MariaDB database.
First, log in to your MySQL/MariaDB server and create a database for CouchCMS. Replace couchcms_db, couchcms_user, and password with your preferred values.
# sudo mysql -u root -p
mysql> CREATE DATABASE couchcms_db;
mysql> CREATE USER 'couchcms_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON couchcms_db.* TO 'couchcms_user'@'localhost';
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
mysql> EXIT;
Now, it's time to configure CouchCMS by creating the configuration file. Copy the config-sample.php file to config.php in the CouchCMS root directory.
# cd /srv/http/couchcms/
# cp config-sample.php config.php
Next, open the config.php file using a text editor and modify the following lines:
define('K_DB_HOST', 'localhost'); // replace 'localhost' with your database server IP address or hostname
define('K_DB_NAME', 'couchcms_db'); // replace 'couchcms_db' with your database name
define('K_DB_USER', 'couchcms_user'); // replace 'couchcms_user' with your database username
define('K_DB_PASSWORD', 'password'); // replace 'password' with your database password
Save the file and exit the text editor.
To install CouchCMS, open your web browser and navigate to http://your_ip_address/couchcms/ (replace your_ip_address with your actual IP address). Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation process.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed CouchCMS on your EndeavourOS Latest system. You can now start building dynamic websites with CouchCMS.
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