How to Install CMS Made Simple on OpenSUSE Latest

Introduction

CMS Made Simple is an open-source content management system designed to help build large and complex websites quickly and easily. In this tutorial, we will be guiding you through the process of installing CMS Made Simple on OpenSUSE latest.

Prerequisites

Before starting the installation, make sure you have the following prerequisites installed on your system:

• OpenSUSE latest
• Apache server or Nginx web server
• PHP 5.5.9 or higher
• MySQL or MariaDB Server

Step 1: Download CMS Made Simple

First, download the latest version of CMS Made Simple from their official website https://www.cmsmadesimple.org/downloads/cmsms/. Once the download is complete, extract the zip file to a directory of your choice.

Step 2: Create a Database

Next, create a new MySQL or MariaDB database for CMS Made Simple. Log in as the root user and create a new database called ‘cmsms’ with the following command:

CREATE DATABASE cmsms;

Create a new user and grant privileges to the new database:

CREATE USER 'cmsuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `cmsms`.* TO 'cmsuser'@'localhost';

Remember to replace ‘password’ with a strong password of your choice.

Step 3: Configure Apache or Nginx

For Apache, create a new virtual host for CMS Made Simple by creating a new file in /etc/apache2/sites-available/ with the following contents:

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin admin@example.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/cmsms
ServerName example.com
ServerAlias www.example.com
<Directory /var/www/html/cmsms>
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/cmsms_error.log
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/cmsms_access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

For Nginx, create a new server block in /etc/nginx/conf.d/ with the following contents:

server {
listen 80;
server_name example.com;
root /var/www/html/cmsms;
index index.php;
access_log /var/log/nginx/cmsms_access.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/cmsms_error.log;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
}
location ~ .php$ {
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
}

Remember to replace ‘example.com’ with your domain name.

Step 4: Install CMS Made Simple

Copy the extracted CMS Made Simple directory to your web server’s document root. For Apache, the document root is typically /var/www/html/, and for Nginx, it is typically /usr/share/nginx/html/.

sudo cp -R cmsms/ /var/www/html/

Step 5: Configure CMS Made Simple

Navigate to http://example.com/install.php in your web browser and follow the installation wizard. Enter your database name, database user, and password when prompted. Leave the database host as ‘localhost’.

Step 6: Secure Your Installation

To secure your installation, delete the install.php file and change the ownership of the CMS Made Simple directory to the web server user:

sudo rm /var/www/html/cmsms/install.php
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/cmsms

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we have covered how to install CMS Made Simple on OpenSUSE latest. With CMS Made Simple, you can easily manage content on your website without needing to know how to code.

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