SPIP is a content management system used for creating dynamic websites. In this tutorial, we'll guide you through the installation of SPIP on the latest Ubuntu server.
Before we start installing SPIP on our Ubuntu server, it is essential to update all of your system packages. So, connect to your server and run the following command:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
To run SPIP properly, we need to install some required dependencies and server components. Run the following command:
sudo apt-get install apache2 mysql-server php7.4 php7.4-mysql php-xml php-mbstring
The next step is to download the latest version of SPIP from their official website https://www.spip.net/fr. After downloading, change your current directory to the downloads directory using the cd command.
cd Downloads
Now that we have downloaded SPIP, let's extract it to the default web directory that is /var/www/html/ using the following command:
sudo unzip spip-X.X.X.zip -d /var/www/html/
X.X.X should be replaced with the version of SPIP you downloaded in step 3.
The next step is to set the correct permissions for the SPIP files and directories with the following command:
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/
We need to create a new MySQL database and user for SPIP. Run the following commands to create a new MySQL database, user, and grant rights:
sudo mysql -u root -p
Enter your MySQL root password and then, in the MySQL console, run:
CREATE DATABASE spip;
CREATE USER 'spip'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON spip.* TO 'spip'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT
Replace spip with your preferred database name and password with your desired password.
Finally, open up your favorite web browser and navigate to http://localhost/spip/ecrire/ and follow the on-screen prompts to complete the installation.
You have now successfully installed SPIP on your Ubuntu server. From here, you can now fully customize the content management system and use it to create amazing dynamic websites.
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