In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing Pagekit on your Fedora Server.
Before we get started, we recommend that you have the following:
Start by updating your server's package index:
sudo dnf update
To install the required dependencies, run the following command:
sudo dnf install php php-opcache php-xml php-mbstring php-gd php-zip php-pdo mariadb mariadb-server mariadb-client unzip wget
This command will install PHP and MariaDB, which is a database management system.
Choose your preferred web server (Apache or Nginx). For Apache, run the following command:
sudo dnf install httpd
Then, start the Apache service:
sudo systemctl start httpd
If you have chosen to use Nginx, you can install it by running the following command:
sudo dnf install nginx
Then, start the Nginx service:
sudo systemctl start nginx
Once your web server is installed and running, you need to configure it to work with Pagekit.
Now it's time to download Pagekit. Navigate to the directory where you want to install it (e.g., /var/www/html), and then download the latest version of Pagekit:
cd /var/www/html
sudo wget https://pagekit.com/get-started/download/pagekit-1.0.18.zip
Unzip the downloaded file:
sudo unzip pagekit-1.0.18.zip
This will create a new subdirectory called pagekit in your document root.
Before we can run Pagekit, we need to create a MariaDB database for it. To do this, start by logging into your MySQL/MariaDB command-line interface:
sudo mysql -u root
Once you're logged in, run the following commands to create a new database and user, and to grant the user permissions on the database:
CREATE DATABASE pagekitdb;
CREATE USER 'pagekituser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON pagekitdb.* TO 'pagekituser'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;
Make sure to replace password with a strong password of your choice.
Navigate to the pagekit directory that you extracted earlier:
cd /var/www/html/pagekit
Rename the .env.example file to .env:
sudo mv .env.example .env
Open the .env file in your preferred text editor and edit the DB_* settings to match the database and user you created in the previous step:
DB_DRIVER=pdo_mysql
DB_HOST=localhost
DB_NAME=pagekitdb
DB_USER=pagekituser
DB_PASSWORD=password
Again, make sure to replace password with the password you set for the pagekituser user.
To ensure that your web server can read and write to the necessary files, run the following command to give ownership of the pagekit directory to your web server user (e.g., apache or nginx):
sudo chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/pagekit
If you're using Nginx, you should replace apache:apache with nginx:nginx.
Now that everything is set up, you should be able to access Pagekit by navigating to your server's IP address or domain name in your web browser.
If you installed Pagekit in the /var/www/html/pagekit directory, you can access it at:
http://your_server_ip_or_domain/pagekit/
You should now see the Pagekit installation wizard, which will guide you through the rest of the setup process.
Congratulations, you have successfully installed Pagekit on your Fedora Server!
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