In this tutorial, we will walk you through the steps for installing CMS Made Simple CMS on Void Linux. CMS Made Simple is a fast, intuitive, and powerful open-source CMS that allows you to easily manage your website content.
Before you start, ensure that you have a Void Linux VPS or dedicated server set up and that you have access to it via SSH.
The first step is to install an Apache web server. To do this, run the following command:
sudo xbps-install -S apache
This will install Apache and its dependencies.
CMS Made Simple is a PHP-based CMS, so we need to install PHP on our system. To do this, run the following command:
sudo xbps-install -S php php-fpm php-curl php-gd php-mbstring php-mysql php-xml
This will install PHP and its dependencies.
CMS Made Simple requires a database backend to store its data. We will use MariaDB as our database system. To install MariaDB, run the following command:
sudo xbps-install -S mariadb
This will install MariaDB and its dependencies.
Once we have installed MariaDB, we need to configure it. To do this, run the following command:
sudo mysql_secure_installation
This will start the MariaDB secure installation script, which will guide you through the process of setting up the root password, removing anonymous users, disabling remote root login, and more.
Next, we need to create a database and user for CMS Made Simple to use. To do this, log in to your MariaDB server using the following command:
sudo mysql -u root -p
Enter the root password when prompted. Once you are logged in, run the following commands to create a database and user for CMS Made Simple:
CREATE DATABASE `cmsmadesimple`;
CREATE USER 'cmsmsuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `cmsmadesimple`.* TO `cmsmsuser`@`localhost`;
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Replace password with a strong password.
The next step is to download and install CMS Made Simple. To do this, run the following commands:
cd /var/www/html/
sudo wget https://www.cmsmadesimple.org/downloads/cmsms/cmsms-2.2.14-install.zip
sudo unzip cmsms-2.2.14-install.zip
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data cmsms-2.2.14
This will download the latest version of CMS Made Simple, extract it, and set the ownership of the CMS Made Simple files to the www-data user and group.
Navigate to the CMS Made Simple directory using the following command:
cd cmsms-2.2.14
Copy the config.php.dist file to config.php using the following command:
cp config.php.dist config.php
Open the config.php file using your favorite text editor and make the following changes:
$config['dbms'] = 'mysqli';
$config['db_hostname'] = 'localhost';
$config['db_username'] = 'cmsmsuser';
$config['db_password'] = 'password';
$config['db_name'] = 'cmsmadesimple';
Replace password with the password you set for the cmsmsuser user in Step 5.
Next, we need to start the PHP-FPM service. To do this, run the following command:
sudo service php-fpm start
Finally, we need to start the Apache service. To do this, run the following command:
sudo service apache start
You can now access CMS Made Simple by visiting http://your_ip_address in your web browser. You should see the CMS Made Simple installation wizard. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation process.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed CMS Made Simple on Void Linux.
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