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 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Vultr instance.
Requirements
Server requirements:
- PHP version 5.6 or higher
- PHP Extensions:
gd
, mcrypt
, lib-xml
must be enabled (with DOM support)
- Nginx
- Database server: MySQL
- Composer
Check the Ubuntu version.
lsb_release -ds
# Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS
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
Ensure that your system is up to date.
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
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 MySQL
Install MySQL.
sudo apt install -y mysql-server
Check the version.
mysql --version
# mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.7.21, for Linux (x86_64) using EditLine wrapper
Run the mysql_secure_installation
script to improve the security of your MySQL installation.
sudo mysql_secure_installation
Log into MySQL as the root user.
mysql -u root -p
# Enter password:
Create a new MySQL database and user, and remember the credentials.
CREATE DATABASE dbname;
GRANT ALL ON dbname.* TO 'username' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Exit MySQL.
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 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 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
.