Bolt CMS is a lightweight and flexible content management system that can be easily installed on macOS. Follow the steps below to install Bolt CMS on your macOS device.
Before you start the installation process, ensure that you have the following prerequisites:
Visit the Bolt CMS website https://boltcms.io/download and download the latest version of Bolt CMS.
Extract the downloaded Bolt CMS archive to the root directory of your web server. You can do this by double-clicking the archive file and dragging the contents to the appropriate directory.
.env.dist
file to .env
and open it in a text editor.DATABASE_URL
line and replace the <db_name>
, <db_user>
, and <db_password>
placeholders with the details of your MySQL server..env
file.php app/nut setup:sync
Open your web browser and navigate to the URL of your Bolt CMS installation (e.g., http://localhost/bolt/
). You should see the Bolt CMS welcome page.
In this tutorial, you learned how to install Bolt CMS on macOS. You can now start creating your website using Bolt CMS.
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