Microweber is an open source drag and drop CMS and online shop. Microweber source code is hosted on GitHub. This guide will show you how to install Microweber on a fresh Fedora 28 Vultr instance.
Requirements
Server Requirements:
- PHP version 5.6 or higher with the following extensions:
gd
mcrypt
lib-xml
must be enabled (with DOM support)
- Nginx
- MariaDB
- Composer
Before you begin
Check the Fedora version.
cat /etc/fedora-release
# Fedora release 28 (Twenty Eight)
Create a new non-root user account with sudo
access and switch to it.
useradd -c "John Doe" johndoe && passwd johndoe
usermod -aG wheel johndoe
su - johndoe
NOTE: Replace johndoe
with your username.
Ensure that your system is up to date.
sudo dnf check-upgrade || sudo dnf upgrade -y
Set up the timezone.
timedatectl list-timezones
sudo timedatectl set-timezone 'Region/City'
Install necessary packages.
sudo dnf install -y curl git wget vim unzip bash-completion mcrypt
For simplicity, disable SELinux and Firewall.
sudo setenforce 0 ; sudo systemctl stop firewalld ; sudo systemctl disable firewalld
Install PHP
Install PHP and the required PHP extensions.
sudo dnf install -y php-cli php-fpm php-common php-gd php-mbstring php-xml php-mysqlnd php-pgsql php-sqlite3 php-zip php-soap php-xmlrpc php-json php-pdo
Check the version.
php --version
Start and enable PHP-FPM.
sudo systemctl start php-fpm.service
sudo systemctl enable php-fpm.service
Install MariaDB
Install MariaDB.
sudo dnf install -y mariadb-server
Check the version.
mysql --version
# mysql Ver 15.1 Distrib 10.2.16-MariaDB, for Linux (x86_64) using readline 5.1
Start and enable MariaDB.
sudo systemctl start mariadb.service
sudo systemctl enable mariadb.service
Run the mysql_secure_installation
script to improve the security of your MariaDB installation.
sudo mysql_secure_installation
Log in to MariaDB as the root user.
mysql -u root -p
# Enter password:
Create a new MariaDB database and user, and remember the credentials.
CREATE DATABASE dbname;
GRANT ALL ON dbname.* TO 'username' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
exit
Install Nginx
Install Nginx.
sudo dnf install -y nginx
Check the version.
nginx -v
Start and enable Nginx.
sudo systemctl start nginx.service
sudo systemctl enable nginx.service
Configure Nginx. Run sudo vim /etc/nginx/conf.d/microweber.conf
and populate the file with the following.
server {
listen 80;
server_name example.com;
root /var/www/microweber;
index index.php;
client_max_body_size 100M;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri =404;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php-fpm/www.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
}
}
Test the configuration.
sudo nginx -t
Reload Nginx.
sudo systemctl reload nginx.service
Install Microweber
Create a document root directory.
sudo mkdir -p /var/www/microweber
Change ownership of the /var/www/microweber
directory to johndoe
.
sudo chown -R johndoe:johndoe /var/www/microweber
Download the latest release of Microweber CMS and unzip it.
cd /var/www/microweber
wget https://download.microweberapi.com/ready/core/microweber-latest.zip
unzip microweber-latest.zip
rm microweber-latest.zip
Change ownership of the /var/www/microweber
directory to nginx
.
sudo chown -R nginx:nginx /var/www/microweber
Run sudo vim /etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf
and set the user and group to nginx
. Initially, it will be set to apache
.
sudo vim /etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf
# user = nginx
# group = nginx
Restart PHP-FPM.
sudo systemctl restart php-fpm.service
Open your domain name (http://example.com/
) in your web browser and follow the instructions. After the installation, your admin panel URL will be at http://example.com/admin
.