How to Install FlatPress on MXLinux Latest

FlatPress is a lightweight blogging platform that uses flat files instead of databases for storing content. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install FlatPress on MXLinux Latest using Apache web server and PHP.

Prerequisites

Before installing FlatPress, make sure that your MXLinux Latest system is up to date and has Apache web server, PHP, and Zip archive support installed.

To update your system, run the following command:

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

To install Apache, PHP, and Zip archive support, run the following command:

sudo apt install apache2 php7.4 php7.4-zip

Download and Extract FlatPress

1. Go to https://flatpress.org/ and download the latest version of FlatPress.
2. Move the downloaded file to the /var/www/html/ directory.
3. Extract the downloaded file using the following command:

sudo unzip flatpress-X.X.X.zip -d /var/www/html/

Replace X.X.X with the version number of the downloaded file.

Configure FlatPress

1. Rename the fp-content directory to content:

sudo mv /var/www/html/flatpress-0.909.2/fp-content /var/www/html/flatpress-0.909.2/content

Replace flatpress-0.909.2 with the name of the extracted directory.

2. Change the ownership of the content directory to the www-data user:

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/flatpress-0.909.2/content

Replace flatpress-0.909.2 with the name of the extracted directory.

3. Create a new virtual host configuration file for FlatPress in the /etc/apache2/sites-available/ directory:

sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/flatpress.conf

4. Add the following lines to the flatpress.conf file:

<VirtualHost *:80>
   ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
   DocumentRoot /var/www/html/flatpress-0.909.2
   ServerName example.com
   ServerAlias www.example.com
   <Directory /var/www/html/flatpress-0.909.2/>
      Options FollowSymLinks
      AllowOverride All
      Require all granted
   </Directory>
   ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
   CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

Replace flatpress-0.909.2 with the name of the extracted directory and example.com with your domain name.

5. Enable the new virtual host by creating a symbolic link to it:

sudo ln -s /etc/apache2/sites-available/flatpress.conf /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/

6. Restart Apache to apply the changes:

sudo service apache2 restart

Launch the FlatPress Installer

1. Open your web browser and navigate to http://example.com/ or http://localhost/ if you are testing locally.

Replace example.com with your domain name.

2. Follow the instructions on the installer page to complete the installation process.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we showed you how to install FlatPress on MXLinux Latest using Apache web server and PHP. You can now start creating and publishing content on your new blog.

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