Pico CMS is a lightweight and fast content management system that runs on PHP. In this tutorial, we will guide you on how to install Pico on a Void Linux system.
Open your terminal application.
Update the package repositories by running the following command:
sudo xbps-install -Su
Install PHP 7 and other required dependencies by running the following command:
sudo xbps-install php7 php7-cli php7-opcache php7-bcmath php7-ctype php7-curl php7-fileinfo php7-gd php7-gettext php7-iconv php7-imagick php7-json php7-mbstring php7-mysqlnd php7-mysqli php7-pdo php7-pdo_mysql php7-phar php7-posix php7-session php7-simplexml php7-sqlite3 php7-tokenizer php7-xml php7-xmlreader php7-xmlwriter php7-zip
Download the latest version of Pico CMS from the official website, using the following command:
wget https://github.com/picocms/Pico/releases/download/vx.x.x/pico-release.zip
Note: Replace "x.x.x" with the current version number of Pico.
Extract the downloaded zip file:
unzip pico-release.zip
Move the Pico source code to the root directory of your web server. For example, if you are using the Apache web server, you would move the files to the "/var/www/htdocs" directory:
sudo mv pico-release/* /var/www/htdocs/
Change the ownership of the Pico files to the web server user:
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/htdocs
Note: Replace "www-data" with your web server user if necessary.
Start or restart your web server. For Apache, you would run:
sudo service apache2 restart
Open your web browser and enter the URL of the Pico installation, followed by "/index.php". For example: "http://localhost/my-pico-site/index.php".
You should now be able to access the Pico CMS interface and start creating your website!
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Pico CMS on Void Linux.
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