Installing Microweber on Debian 9

• Requirements
• Install PHP
• Install MariaDB
• Install Nginx
• Install Microweber

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 Debian 9 Vultr instance.

Requirements

Server requirements:

• PHP version 5.6 or higher
• PHP Extensions: gd, mcrypt and lib-xml; which must be enabled (with DOM support)
• Nginx
• MariaDB
• Composer

Check the Debian version.

lsb_release -ds
# Debian GNU/Linux 9.4 (stretch)

Ensure that your system is up to date.

apt update && apt upgrade -y

Install the sudo package.

apt install -y sudo

Create a new non-root user account with sudo access and switch to it.

adduser johndoe --gecos "John Doe"
usermod -aG sudo johndoe
su - johndoe

NOTE: Replace johndoe with your username.

Set up the timezone.

sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

Install PHP

Install PHP and the required PHP extensions.

sudo apt install -y php7.0 php7.0-cli php7.0-fpm php7.0-common php7.0-gd php7.0-mcrypt php7.0-mbstring php7.0-xml php7.0-mysql php7.0-pgsql php7.0-sqlite3 php7.0-zip php7.0-soap  php7.0-xmlrpc

Check the version.

php --version

Install MariaDB

Install MariaDB.

sudo apt install -y mariadb-server

Check the version.

mysql --version
# mysql  Ver 15.1 Distrib 10.1.26-MariaDB, for debian-linux-gnu (x86_64) using readline 5.2

Run the mysql_secure_installation script to improve the security of your MariaDB installation.

sudo mysql_secure_installation

Log into MariaDB as the root user.

sudo 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 MariaDB.

exit

Install Nginx

Install Nginx.

sudo apt install -y nginx

Check the version.

sudo nginx -v

Configure Nginx. Run sudo vim /etc/nginx/sites-available/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/php7.0-fpm.sock;
    fastcgi_index index.php;
    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
  }

}

Activate the new microweber.conf configuration by linking the file to the sites-enabled directory.

sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/microweber.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/

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

Install unzip.

sudo apt install -y unzip

Download the latest version 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 www-data.

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/microweber

Open your domain name (http://example.com/) in your web browser and follow the instructions. After installation, your admin panel URL will be at http://example.com/admin.