How to Install phpwcms on a CentOS 7

Install phpwcms on a CentOS
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Install phpwcms
As usual, run the following command to update all installed packages

yum -y update

Next, install Apache web server

yum -y install httpd

Once the installation of the web server is completed, start it and set it to start automatically on boot.

systemctl start httpd
systemctl enable httpd

phpwcms is a PHP based application and we need to install PHP with the 'mysql' extensions installed

yum -y install php php-mysql

Run the following command on your terminal to install MariaDB server

yum -y install mariadb mariadb-server

Once the installation is completed start the MariaDB server and set it to start on system boot

systemctl start mariadb
systemctl enable mariadb

Then, run the mysql_secure_installation script. This script will help you to improve the security of your MariaDB installation and set your MariaDB root password.


After that login to the MariaDB server with the root user and create a new user and database .

mysql -u root -p

CREATE DATABASE phpwcms;
CREATE USER 'phpwcmsuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'PASSWORD';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `phpwcms`.* TO 'phpwcmsuser'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
exit

Download the latest available phpwcms release from their official website

wget https://github.com/slackero/phpwcms/archive/phpwcms-1.8.2.zip

Unpack the downloaded ZIP archive to the document root directory on your server

unzip phpwcms-1.8.2.zip -d /var/www/html/

After that rename the folder

cd /var/www/html/
mv phpwcms-phpwcms-1.8.2 phpwcms

Set the Apache user as the owner of the phpwcms files and directories

chown -R apache: /var/www/html/phpwcms

On the next step we will create an Apache virtual host for your phpwcms based website. Create a '/etc/httpd/conf.d/vhosts.conf' file with the following content:

IncludeOptional vhosts.d/*.conf

Create a ‘vhosts.d/’ directory and create the virtual host with the following content

mkdir /etc/httpd/vhosts.d/

nano /etc/httpd/vhosts.d/yourdomain.com.conf

<VirtualHost YOUR_SERVER_IP:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@yourdomain.com
DocumentRoot "/var/www/html/phpwcms/"
ServerName yourdomain.com
ServerAlias www.yourdomain.com
ErrorLog "/var/log/httpd/yourdomain.com-error_log"
CustomLog "/var/log/httpd/yourdomain.com-access_log" combined

<Directory "/var/www/html/phpwcms/">
DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Save the file and restart the Apache web server.

systemctl restart httpd

Now, open a web browser and navigate it to http://yourdomain.com/setup/index.php, accept their terms and conditions and follow the on-screen instructions to complete the phpwcms installation.
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