How to install WinterCMS on Fedora CoreOS Latest

WinterCMS is a modern Content Management System built on top of the Laravel framework. In this tutorial, we will see how to install WinterCMS on Fedora CoreOS Latest.

Prerequisites

Before starting with the installation process, ensure that you have the following prerequisites:

• A Linux machine with Fedora CoreOS Latest installed
• A web server (e.g., Apache or Nginx) installed and configured correctly
• PHP 7.3 or higher installed on your system
• Composer installed on your system

Step 1: Install Required PHP Extensions

Before installing WinterCMS, we need to install some PHP extensions required for its proper functioning, such as:

sudo dnf install php-ctype php-gd php-json php-mbstring php-xml

Step 2: Install Composer

Next, we need to install Composer, a popular package manager for PHP applications. We'll use Composer to install WinterCMS.

sudo dnf install composer

Step 3: Install WinterCMS

Now, we can install WinterCMS by running the following command:

composer create-project wintercms/winter /var/www/html/mywintercms

This command will create a WinterCMS project directory named mywintercms in the /var/www/html/ path.

Step 4: Configure WinterCMS

After installation, navigate to the mywintercms directory and create a .env file from the .env.example file.

cd /var/www/html/mywintercms/
cp .env.example .env

Open the .env file and modify the following settings according to your needs:

APP_ENV=production
APP_DEBUG=false
APP_URL=http://localhost

Additionally, ensure that the storage/ and bootstrap/cache/ directories have write permission on the webserver.

sudo chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/mywintercms/storage
sudo chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/mywintercms/bootstrap/cache

Step 5: Configure Web Server

Finally, we need to configure the web server to serve our WinterCMS application. We'll use Nginx in this tutorial.

Create a new Nginx server block by running the following command:

sudo vi /etc/nginx/conf.d/mywintercms.conf

Add the following configuration in the file:

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

    index  index.php index.html index.htm;

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

    location ~ \.php$ {
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php-fpm/www.sock;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $realpath_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        include fastcgi_params;
    }
}

Replace example.com with your domain name or IP address.

Save and exit the file.

We also need to restart the Nginx and PHP-FPM service for the changes to take effect.

sudo systemctl restart nginx
sudo systemctl restart php-fpm

Step 6: Access WinterCMS

Now, you can access the WinterCMS application on your web browser by entering the following URL:

http://<your-domain-name>/

Congratulations! You have successfully installed WinterCMS on Fedora CoreOS Latest.

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