Bolt CMS is a flexible and modern content management system built on top of the Symfony components. It is written in PHP and designed to make publishing content on the web easy and enjoyable. In this tutorial, we will demonstrate how to install Bolt CMS on nixOS Latest.
Before we proceed with the installation of Bolt CMS, please make sure that you meet the following prerequisites:
Composer is a dependency management tool for PHP that is required to install Bolt CMS. To install Composer, run the following command:
sudo curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | sudo php -- --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer
This command will download the Composer installer and install it in the /usr/local/bin directory.
Once you have installed Composer, you can use it to create a new Bolt CMS project by running the following command:
sudo composer create-project bolt/bolt --prefer-dist /var/www/html/bolt
This command will download the latest version of Bolt CMS and its dependencies and create a new directory named "bolt" in the /var/www/html directory.
Once the project is created, you need to configure Bolt CMS by running the following command:
cd /var/www/html/bolt
sudo php app/nut setup:sync --empty --reset
This command will launch the initial setup process and configure Bolt CMS on your nixOS server. You will be prompted to provide the database credentials, database name, and other settings during this process.
Adjust the directory permissions to ensure the web server can read and write the Bolt CMS files:
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/bolt
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/bolt
Finally, configure your web server to serve the Bolt CMS site. If you are using Apache, you can create a new VirtualHost configuration file that looks like the following:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName yourdomain.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/bolt/public
<Directory /var/www/html/bolt/public>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Note that you should adjust the values of ServerName, DocumentRoot, and Directory according to your own configuration.
If you are using Nginx, you can create a new server block that looks like the following:
server {
listen 80;
server_name yourdomain.com;
root /var/www/html/bolt/public;
index index.php;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param PHP_VALUE "error_log=/var/log/nginx/php_errors.log";
fastcgi_read_timeout 300;
}
}
Again, adjust the values of server_name, root, and the fastcgi_pass according to your configuration.
In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install Bolt CMS on nixOS Latest. Now that you have a Bolt CMS site up and running, you can start building your site by adding pages, themes, and plugins. If you encounter any issues during the installation or setup process, please refer to the official Bolt CMS documentation or seek support from the developer community.
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