Directus is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) that provides an intuitive interface for managing your databases. Directus is built on Angular 7, which makes it easy to integrate with other web development tools. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Directus on OpenSUSE Latest.
Before you begin, you should have:
The first step is to update your OpenSUSE system to ensure that all packages are up to date. You can do this by running the following command:
sudo zypper update
Directus requires PHP version 7.2 or later, so you will need to install PHP on your server. You can do this by running the following command:
sudo zypper in php7 php7-fpm
Directus requires a MySQL database to store its data. If you don't have a MySQL server installed, you can install it with the following command:
sudo zypper in mysql mysql-client
After installing MySQL, you need to start and enable the MySQL service by running the following commands:
sudo systemctl start mysql
sudo systemctl enable mysql
By default, MySQL is not secured. To secure your MySQL installation, run the following command:
sudo mysql_secure_installation
This command will prompt you to set a password for the MySQL root user, remove anonymous users, disallow remote root login, and remove test databases.
Install Composer, a package manager for PHP, by running the following command:
sudo zypper in curl php7-devel php7-mbstring php7-openssl php7-zip
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
Create a new directory for Directus by running the following command:
sudo mkdir /var/www/directus
Next, navigate to the newly created directory:
cd /var/www/directus
Download the latest version of Directus by running the following command:
sudo composer create-project directus/directus .
Change the owner of the Directus directory to the web server user:
sudo chown -R wwwrun:www /var/www/directus
You also need to change the file permissions to 755 for directories and 644 for files:
sudo find /var/www/directus -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
sudo find /var/www/directus -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
Now, edit the Directus configuration file and update the database credentials:
sudo nano /var/www/directus/config.php
Find the following lines and replace the placeholder values with your MySQL database credentials:
'mysql' => [
'host' => 'localhost',
'database' => 'directus',
'username' => 'root',
'password' => '',
'charset' => 'utf8mb4',
'engine' => 'InnoDB',
],
Create a configuration file for Directus:
sudo nano /etc/apache2/conf.d/directus.conf
Add the following lines to the file:
Alias /directus /var/www/directus/public
<Directory /var/www/directus/public>
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
Save and close the file. Then, enable the Apache rewrite module:
sudo a2enmod rewrite
Finally, restart Apache for the changes to take effect:
sudo systemctl restart apache2
Create a new Nginx server block for Directus:
sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/directus.conf
Add the following lines to the file:
server {
listen 80;
server_name example.com;
client_max_body_size 100M;
root /var/www/directus/public;
index index.php index.html;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php7-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;
include fastcgi_params;
}
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
location ~* \.(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|ico)$ {
expires max;
log_not_found off;
}
}
Save the file and create a symbolic link to the Nginx sites-enabled directory:
sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/directus.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
Finally, restart Nginx for the changes to take effect:
sudo systemctl restart nginx
You can now access Directus by navigating to the following URL in your web browser:
http://your-server-ip/directus
Replace your-server-ip with the IP address of your server.
Congratulations, you have successfully installed and configured Directus on OpenSUSE Latest. You can now start creating your own custom workflows and manage your databases more efficiently.
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