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April 17, 2019April 22, 2019

How To Install Magento 2.3 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Magento is one of the worlds most widely used applications for managing E-Commerce sites. Magento is fully customizable to meet the users requirements and allowing them to create and launch a fully functional online store in minutes. Magento employs the MySQL relational database management system, the PHP programming language, and elements of the Zend Framework.

This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo’ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you through the step by step installation Magento on an Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver server.

Magento Features:

Analytics and Reporting – the script is integrated with Google Analytics and offers many different reports.
Product Browsing – multiple images for products, options for extensive reviews, wishlists and much more.
Catalog Browsing – easy navigation, advanced product filtering system, product comparison.
Catalog Management – inventory management, batch import and export of products, different tax rates per location, additional product attributes.
Customer Accounts – order status and history, e-mail and RSS feeds for products in the wishlist, newsletter subscription, default billing and shipping address.
Customer Service – enhanced features for customers’ accounts, Contact Us form, comprehensive order tracking and history, customizable order e-mails.
Order Management – create orders through admin area, create multiple invoices shipments and credit memos, call center order creation option.
Payment – different payment methods: credit cards, PayPal, Authorize.net,
Google Checkout, checks, money orders, support of external payment modules like Cybersource, ePay, eWAY and many more.
Shipping – shipping to multiple addresses, flat rating shipping, supports UPS,
UPS XML (account rates), FedEx (account rates), USPS and DHL.
Checkout – one page checkout, SSL support, checkout without having an account.
Search Engine Optimization – 100% Search Engine Friendly, Google SiteMap support.
International Support – multiple languages and currencies, list of allowed countries for registration, purchasing and shipping, localization.
Marketing Promotions and Tools – coupons, discounts and different promotion options.
Site Management – control of multiple web sites, multiple languages, tax rate with support for US and International markets, customizable outlook through templates.

Install Magento on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Step 1. First, make sure that all your system packages are up-to-date

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

Step 2. Install LAMP (Linux, Apache, MariaDB and PHP) server.

A Ubuntu 18.04 LAMP server is required. If you do not have LAMP installed, you can follow our guide here. Also install all required PHP modules:

apt-get install php7.1-cli php7.1-mbstring php7.1-gd php7.1-opcache php7.1-mysql php7.1-json php7.1-mcrypt php7.1-xml php7.1-curl

Step 3. Installing Magento on Ubuntu 18.04.
First thing to do is to go to Magento’s download page and download the latest stable version of Magento, At the moment of writing this article it is version 2.3.0.

Next, unpack the Magento archive to the document root directory on your server:

unzip magento*.zip
cp -rf magento/* /var/www/html/

We will need to change some folders permissions:

chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/
chmod -R 755 /var/www/html

Step 4. Configuring MariaDB for Magento.

By default, MariaDB is not hardened. You can secure MariaDB using the mysql_secure_installation script. you should read and below each steps carefully which will set root password, remove anonymous users, disallow remote root login, and remove the test database and access to secure MariaDB:

mysql_secure_installation

Configure it like this:

- Set root password? [Y/n] y
- Remove anonymous users? [Y/n] y
- Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n] y
- Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n] y
- Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n] y

Next we will need to log in to the MariaDB console and create a database for the Magento. Run the following command:

mysql -u root -p

This will prompt you for a password, so enter your MariaDB root password and hit Enter. Once you are logged in to your database server you need to create a database for Magento installation:

CREATE DATABASE magentodb;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON magentodb . * TO magento@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'PASSWORD' WITH GRANT OPTION;
flush privileges;
exit

Step 5. Configuring Apache web server for Magento.

Create a new virtual host directive in Apache. For example, create a new Apache configuration file named ‘magento.conf’ on your virtual server:

touch /etc/apache2/sites-available/magento.conf
ln -s /etc/apache2/sites-available/magento.conf /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/magento.conf
nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/magento.conf

Add the following lines:

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin [email protected]
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/
ServerName your-domain.com
ServerAlias www.your-domain.com
<Directory /var/www/html/>
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/your-domain.com-error_log
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/your-domain.com-access_log common

Save and close the file. Restart the apache service for the changes to take effects:

sudo a2ensite magento.conf
sudo a2enmod rewrite
sudo systemctl restart apache2

Step 6. Configure PHP for Magento.

Now here we should allow Magento to use enough PHP memory (it is recommended that PHP should be allowed 512 MB of RAM). To do that, run the commands below to open the configuration file:

sudo nano /etc/php/7.1/apache2/php.ini

Search for the line ‘memory_limit‘ in the file:

memory_limit = 128M
### And change the value to 512 ###
memory_limit = 512M

Restart Apache for the changes to take effect using the following command:

systemctl restart apache2

Step 7. Accessing Magento.

Magento will be available on HTTP port 80 by default. Open your favorite browser and navigate to http://yourdomain.com/ or http://server-ip and complete the required the steps to finish the installation. If you are using a firewall, please open port 80 to enable access to the control panel.

Congratulation’s! You have successfully installed Magento. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing Magento eCommerce in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you to check the official Magento web site.

April 16, 2019April 20, 2019

How To Install OwnCloud 2.5.4 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

OwnCloud is a free and open-source software which enables you to create a private “file-hosting” cloud. OwnCloud is similar to DropBox service with the diference of being free to download and install on your private server. Owncloud made by PHP and backend database MySQL (MariaDB), SQLLite or PostgreSQL. OwnCloud also enables you to easily view and sync address book, calendar events, tasks and bookmarks. You can access it via the good looking and easy to use web interface or install OwnCloud client on your Desktop or Laptop machine (supports Linux, Windows and MacOS).

Install OwnCloud on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Step 1. First make sure that all your system packages are up-to-date

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Step 2. Install LAMP (Linux, Apache, MariaDB and PHP) server.

A Ubuntu 18.04 LAMP server is required. If you do not have LAMP installed, you can follow our guide here. Also install all required PHP modules:

apt-get install php7.1-cli php7.1-gd php7.1-opcache php7.1-mysql php7.1-json php7.1-mcrypt php7.1-xml php7.1-curl

Step 3. Installing OwnCloud 10 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

First thing to do is to go to OwnCloud’s download page and download the latest stable version of OwnCloud, At the moment of writing this article it is version 10:

wget https://download.owncloud.org/community/owncloud-10.0.9.zip
unzip owncloud-10.0.9.zip
sudo mv owncloud /var/www/html/owncloud/

We will need to change some folders permissions:

chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/owncloud/
chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/owncloud/

Step 4. Configuring MariaDB for OwnCloud.

mysql_secure_installation

Configure it like this:

- Set root password? [Y/n] y
- Remove anonymous users? [Y/n] y
- Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n] y
- Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n] y
- Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n] y

Next we will need to log in to the MariaDB console and create a database for the OwnCloud. Run the following command:

mysql -u root -p

This will prompt you for a password, so enter your MariaDB root password and hit Enter. Once you are logged in to your database server you need to create a database for OwnCloud installation:

CREATE DATABASE ownclouddb;
CREATE USER 'ownclouduser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'YOURPASSWORD';
GRANT ALL ON ownclouddb.* TO 'ownclouduser'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
exit

Step 5. Configuring Apache web server for OwnCloud.

Create a new virtual host directive in Apache. For example, create a new Apache configuration file named ‘owncloud.conf’ on your virtual server:

touch /etc/apache2/sites-available/owncloud.conf
ln -s /etc/apache2/sites-available/owncloud.conf /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/owncloud.conf
nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/owncloud.conf

Add the following lines:

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin [email protected]
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/owncloud/
ServerName your-domain.com
ServerAlias www.your-domain.com
<Directory /var/www/html/owncloud/>
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/your-domain.com-error_log
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/your-domain.com-access_log common
</VirtualHost>

Now, we can restart Apache web server so that the changes take place:

a2ensite owncloud.conf
a2enmod rewrite
a2enmod headers
a2enmod env
a2enmod dir
a2enmod mime
systemctl restart apache2.service

Step 6. Accessing OwnCloud Configuration.

To configure ownCloud, we will use the web interface. So, go ahead and open up a web browser and point it to http://your-domain.com. You should see a web page like this. Enter username and password for the administrator user account, click on the ‘Advanced options’ hyperlink and enter the data directory (or leave the default setting), then enter database username, database password, database name, host (localhost) and click ‘Finish setup’.

Congratulation’s! You have successfully installed OwnCloud. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing OwnCloud on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you to check the official OwnCloud web site.

April 16, 2019April 20, 2019

How To Install Mattermost 5.10.0 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Mattermost is an open source, private cloud Slack-alternative. A workplace messaging system for web, PCs and phones, released under the MIT license.

Install Mattermost on Ubuntu 18.04

Step 1. First make sure that all your system packages are up-to-date

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Step 2. Install LAMP (Linux, Apache, MariaDB and PHP) server.

A Ubuntu 18.04 LAMP server is required. If you do not have LAMP installed, you can follow our guide here. Also install all required PHP modules:

apt-get install php7.1-cli php7.1-gd php7.1-opcache php7.1-mysql php7.1-json php7.1-mcrypt php7.1-xml php7.1-curl

Step 3. Installing Mattermost Server on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

First thing to do is to go to Mattermost’s download page and download the latest stable version of Mattermost, At the moment of writing this article it is version 5.1.0:

wget https://releases.mattermost.com/5.1.0/mattermost-5.1.0-linux-amd64.tar.gz

Unpack the Mattermost archive to the document root directory on your server:

tar -xvzf mattermost*.gz
sudo mv mattermost /opt

Next, create a storage directory for file:

sudo mkdir /opt/mattermost/data

Set up a system user and group called mattermost that will run this service, and set the ownership and permissions:

sudo useradd --system --user-group mattermost
sudo chown -R mattermost:mattermost /opt/mattermost
sudo chmod -R g+w /opt/mattermost

Set up the database driver through the /opt/mattermost/config/config.json file. In it, search for “DriverName” and “DataSource” lines and change as follows:

"DriverName": "mysql"
"DataSource": "mattermostuser:new_password_here@tcp(localhost:3306)/mattermost?charset=utf8mb4,utf8&readTimeout=30s&writeTimeout=$""

Step 4. Create a systemd unit for Mattermost.

Create a systemd file for Mattermost, /etc/systemd/system/mattermost.service and, in it, paste the following configuration:

nano /etc/systemd/system/mattermost.service

Add following content:

[Unit]
Description=Mattermost
After=network.target
After=mariadb.service
Requires=mariadb.service

[Service]
Type=notify
ExecStart=/opt/mattermost/bin/mattermost
TimeoutStartSec=3600
Restart=always
RestartSec=10
WorkingDirectory=/opt/mattermost
User=mattermost
Group=mattermost
LimitNOFILE=49152

[Install]
WantedBy=mariadb.service

Next, run the commands below to start Mattermost service:

systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl start mattermost.service
systemctl enable mattermost.service

Step 7. Accessing Mattermost.

Mattermost will be available on HTTP port 8065 by default. Open your favorite browser and navigate to http://your-domain.com:8065 or http://ip-address:8065 and continue to configure Mattermost by entering an email address and creating an account. If you are using a firewall, please open port 8065 to enable access to the control panel.

Congratulation’s! You have successfully installed Mattermost. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing Mattermost on your Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you to check the official Mattermost web site.

April 16, 2019April 20, 2019

How To Install Fork CMS 5.5.2 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Fork CMS is an open source content management system. It comes with an intuitive and user friendly interface. It offers powerful apps and killer themes that helps to make your website more shine.

Install Fork CMS on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Step 1. First make sure that all your system packages are up-to-date

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Step 2. Install LAMP (Linux, Apache, MariaDB and PHP) server.

A Ubuntu 18.04 LAMP server is required. If you do not have LAMP installed, you can follow our guide here. Also install all required PHP modules:

apt-get install php7.1-cli php7.1-gd php7.1-opcache php7.1-mysql php7.1-json php7.1-mcrypt php7.1-xml php7.1-curl

Step 3. Installing Fork CMS on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

First thing to do is to go to Fork CMS’s download page and download the latest stable version of Fork CMS, At the moment of writing this article it is version 5:

wget https://www.fork-cms.com/frontend/files/releases/forkcms-5.3.1.tar.gz
tar -xvzf forkcms-5.3.1.tar.gz
sudo mv forkcms /var/www/html/forkcms

We will need to change some folders permissions:

chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/forkcms/
chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/forkcms/

Step 4. Configuring MariaDB for Fork CMS.

mysql_secure_installation

Configure it like this:

- Set root password? [Y/n] y
- Remove anonymous users? [Y/n] y
- Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n] y
- Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n] y
- Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n] y

Next we will need to log in to the MariaDB console and create a database for the Fork CMS. Run the following command:

mysql -u root -p

This will prompt you for a password, so enter your MariaDB root password and hit Enter. Once you are logged in to your database server you need to create a database for Fork CMS installation:

CREATE DATABASE forkcms;
CREATE USER 'forkcmsuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'new_password_here';
GRANT ALL ON forkcms.* TO 'forkcmsuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'user_password_here' WITH GRANT OPTION;
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;

Step 5. Configuring Apache web server for Fork CMS.

Create a new virtual host directive in Apache. For example, create a new Apache configuration file named ‘owncloud.conf’ on your virtual server:

touch /etc/apache2/sites-available/forkcms.conf
ln -s /etc/apache2/sites-available/forkcms.conf /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/forkcms.conf
nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/forkcms.conf

Add the following lines:

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin [email protected]
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/forkcms
ServerName your-domain.com
ServerAlias www.your-domain.com
<Directory /var/www/html/forkcms/>
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/your-domain.com-error_log
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/your-domain.com-access_log common
</VirtualHost>

Now, we can restart Apache web server so that the changes take place:

a2ensite forkcms.conf
a2enmod rewrite
systemctl restart apache2.service

Step 6. Accessing Fork CMS.

Fork CMS will be available on HTTP port 80 by default. Open your favorite browser and navigate to http://your-domain.com/install.php or http://server-ip/install.php and complete the required the steps to finish the installation. If you are using a firewall, please open port 80 to enable access to the control panel.

Congratulation’s! You have successfully installed Fork CMS. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing Fork open source content management systems on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver). For additional help or useful information, we recommend you to check the official Fork CMS web site.

April 16, 2019April 20, 2019

How To Install Zabbix 4.2 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Zabbix is an open source monitoring tool that is ideal for monitoring your cloud servers. Zabbix is very flexible, information can be retrieved using HTTP/SNMP or by installing a Zabbix agent on the machines to monitor, and allows a lot of customization.

Install Zabbix on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Step 1. First make sure that all your system packages are up-to-date

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Step 2. Install LAMP (Linux, Apache, MariaDB and PHP) server.

A Ubuntu 18.04 LAMP server is required. If you do not have LAMP installed, you can follow our guide here. Also install all required PHP modules:

apt-get install php7.1-cli php7.1-gd php7.1-opcache php7.1-mysql php7.1-json php7.1-mcrypt php7.1-xml php7.1-curl

Step 3. Installing Zabbix on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

The latest version of Zabbix Server is 3.4 but the version available on Ubuntu repositories is 3.0. To install version 3.4, you need to add Zabbix repositories for this version:

wget http://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/3.4/ubuntu/pool/main/z/zabbix-release/zabbix-release_3.4-1+bionic_all.deb
dpkg -i zabbix-release_3.4-1+bionic_all.deb

After adding zabbix apt repository in your system, Now update package lists and install Zabbix using commands:

apt update
apt install -y zabbix-server-mysql zabbix-frontend-php zabbix-agent

Step 4. Zabbix Configuration.

sudo nano /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf

Adjust the following values and make a note of the password you’ve chosen. You’ll need it later too.

DBName=zabbixdb
DBUser=zabbix
DBPassword=your_password_here

Step 5. Configure MariaDB Database for Zabbix.

mysql_secure_installation

Configure it like this:

- Set root password? [Y/n] y
- Remove anonymous users? [Y/n] y
- Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n] y
- Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n] y
- Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n] y

Next we will need to log in to the MariaDB console and create a database for Zabbix. Run the following command:

mysql -u root -p

This will prompt you for a password, so enter your MariaDB root password and hit Enter. Once you are logged in to your database server you need to create a database for the Zabbix software:

create user 'zabbix'@'localhost' identified by 'your_chosen_password_here';
create database zabbixdb;
grant all privileges on zabbixdb.* to 'zabbix'@'localhost';
flush privileges;
exit;

After creating the zabbix database and user we need to import the zabbix initial database using the below commands:

cd /usr/share/doc/zabbix-server-mysql
zcat create.sql.gz | mysql -u root -p zabbixdb

Step 6. Configure Apache web server for Zabbix.

First, we’ll move the Zabbix apache file from the package directory:

sudo cp /usr/share/doc/zabbix-frontend-php/examples/apache.conf /etc/apache2/conf-available/zabbix.conf
sudo a2enconf zabbix.conf
sudo a2enmod alias

We should adjust php timezone as per zabbix recommended settings:

### nano /etc/zabbix/apache.conf
    php_value max_execution_time 300
    php_value memory_limit 128M
    php_value post_max_size 16M
    php_value upload_max_filesize 2M
    php_value max_input_time 300
    php_value always_populate_raw_post_data -1
    php_value date.timezone Europe/Rome

Restart the Apache and zabbix service for the changes to take effect:

systemctl restart zabbix-server zabbix-agent apache2

Step 7. Accessing Zabbix.

will be available on HTTP port 80 by default. Open your favorite browser and navigate to http://your-domain.com/zabbix or http://server-ip/zabbix and complete the required the steps to finish the installation. If you are using a firewall, please open port 80 to enable access to the control panel.

Congratulation’s! You have successfully installed Zabbix. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing Zabbix Monitoring Tool on your Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver LTS system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you to check the official Zabbix web site.

April 16, 2019April 21, 2019

How To Install Chamilo LMS 1.11.8 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Chamilo is an open-source (under GNU/GPL licensing) e-learning and content management system, aimed at improving access to education and knowledge globally. It is backed up by the Chamilo Association, which has goals including the promotion of the software, the maintenance of a clear communication channel and the building of a network of services providers and software contributors. The Chamilo project aims at ensuring the availability and quality of education at a reduced cost, through the distribution of its software free of charge, the improvement of its interface for 3rd world countries devices portability and the provision of a free access public e-learning campus.

This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo’ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you through the step by step installation Chamilo on a Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver) server.

Install Chamilo on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Step 1. First make sure that all your system packages are up-to-date

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Step 2. Install LAMP (Linux, Apache, MariaDB and PHP) server.

A Ubuntu 18.04 LAMP server is required. If you do not have LAMP installed, you can follow our guide here. Also install all required PHP modules:

apt-get install php7.1-cli php7.1-gd php7.1-opcache php7.1-mysql php7.1-json php7.1-mcrypt php7.1-xml php7.1-curl

You’ll need to also adjust some settings in your php.ini. Open up the file and edit these two variables:

nano /etc/php/7.1/apache2/php.ini

Also, add/modify the following settings:

date.timezone = 'America/New_York'
max_execution_time = 300
max_input_time = 600
memory_limit = 256M
post_max_size = 100M
upload_max_filesize = 100M
short_open_tag = Off
safe_mode = Off
magic_quotes_gpc = Off
magic_quotes_runtime = Off
session.cookie_httponly = On
extension = xapian.so

Step 3. Installing Chamilo on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

First thing to do is to go to Chamilo’s download page and download the latest stable version of Chamilo, At the moment of writing this article it is version 1.10:

wget https://github.com/chamilo/chamilo-lms/releases/download/v1.11.6/chamilo-1.11.6-php7.zip

Unpack the Chamilo archive to the document root directory on your server:

unzip chamilo-1.11.6-php7.zip -d /var/www/html/

We will need to change some folders permissions:

chown -R www-data: /var/www/html/

Step 4. Configuring MariaDB for Chamilo.

mysql_secure_installation

Configure it like this:

- Set root password? [Y/n] y
- Remove anonymous users? [Y/n] y
- Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n] y
- Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n] y
- Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n] y

Next we will need to log in to the MariaDB console and create a database for the Chamilo. Run the following command:

mysql -u root -p

This will prompt you for a password, so enter your MariaDB root password and hit Enter. Once you are logged in to your database server you need to create a database for Chamilo installation:

CREATE DATABASE chamilodb;
CREATE USER 'chamilouser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'Pa$$worD123';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON chamilodb.* TO 'chamilouser'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
quit

Step 5. Configuring Apache web server for Chamilo.

Create a new virtual host directive in Apache. For example, create a new Apache configuration file named ‘chamilo.conf’ on your virtual server:

touch /etc/apache2/sites-available/chamilo.conf
ln -s /etc/apache2/sites-available/chamilo.conf /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/chamilo.conf
nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/chamilo.conf

Add the following lines:

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin [email protected]
DocumentRoot /var/www/html
ServerName your-domain.com
ServerAlias www.your-domain.com
<Directory /var/www/html/>
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/your-domain.com-error_log
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/your-domain.com-access_log common

Save and close the file. Restart the apache service for the changes to take effects:

a2ensite chamilo.conf
a2enmod rewrite
systemctl restart apache2

Step 6. Accessing Chamilo.

Chamilo will be available on HTTP port 80 by default. Open your favorite browser and navigate to http://yourdomain.com/ or http://server-ip/ and complete the required the steps to finish the installation. If you are using a firewall, please open port 80 to enable access to the control panel.

Congratulation’s! You have successfully installed Chamilo. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing Chamilo e-learning and content management system on your Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you to check the official Chamilo web site.

April 16, 2019April 21, 2019

How To Install BlogoText CMS on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

BlogoText is an open source, lightweight, web publishing platform (CMS) for creating minimalist blogs and websites.

BlogoText features:

- Blog with comments and RSS feeds
- Links sharing
- RSS Reader
- Images/Files uploading and sharing
- JSON/ZIP/HTML import-export; WordPress import
- Support Addons

Install BlogoText CMS on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Step 1. First make sure that all your system packages are up-to-date

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Step 2. Install LAMP (Linux, Apache, MariaDB and PHP) server.

A Ubuntu 18.04 LAMP server is required. If you do not have LAMP installed, you can follow our guide here. Also install all required PHP modules:

apt-get install php7.1-cli php7.1-mbstring php7.1-gd php7.1-opcache php7.1-mysql php7.1-json php7.1-mcrypt php7.1-xml php7.1-curl

You’ll need to also adjust some settings in your php.ini. Open up the file and edit these two variables:

nano /etc/php/7.1/apache2/php.ini

Also, add/modify the following settings:

date.timezone = 'America/New_York'
file_uploads = On
allow_url_fopen = On
short_open_tag = On
memory_limit = 256M
upload_max_filesize = 100M
max_execution_time = 360

Step 3. Installing BlogoText CMS on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

First thing to do is to go to BlogoText’s download page and download the latest stable version of BlogoText, At the moment of writing this article it is version 3.7:

https://github.com/BlogoText/blogotext/archive/3.7.6.zip
unzip 3.7.6.zip
sudo mv blogotext-3.7.6 /var/www/html/blogotext

We will need to change some folders permissions:

chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/blogotext/
chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/blogotext/

Step 4. Configuring MariaDB for BlogoText CMS.

mysql_secure_installation

Configure it like this:

- Set root password? [Y/n] y
- Remove anonymous users? [Y/n] y
- Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n] y
- Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n] y
- Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n] y

Next we will need to log in to the MariaDB console and create a database for the BlogoText CMS. Run the following command:

mysql -u root -p

This will prompt you for a password, so enter your MariaDB root password and hit Enter. Once you are logged in to your database server you need to create a database for BlogoText CMS installation:

CREATE DATABASE chamilodb;
CREATE USER 'chamilouser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'Pa$$worD123';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON chamilodb.* TO 'chamilouser'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
quit

Step 5. Configuring Apache web server for BlogoText CMS.

Create a new virtual host directive in Apache. For example, create a new Apache configuration file named ‘blogotext.conf’ on your virtual server:

touch /etc/apache2/sites-available/blogotext.conf
ln -s /etc/apache2/sites-available/blogotext.conf /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/blogotext.conf
nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/blogotext.conf

Add the following lines:

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin [email protected]
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/blogotext
ServerName your-domain.com
ServerAlias www.your-domain.com
<Directory /var/www/html/blogotext/>
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/your-domain.com-error_log
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/your-domain.com-access_log common

Save and close the file. Restart the apache service for the changes to take effects:

a2ensite blogotext.conf
a2enmod rewrite
systemctl restart apache2

BlogoText will be available on HTTP port 80 by default. Open your favorite browser and navigate to http://your-domain.com/ or http://server-ip/ and complete the required the steps to finish the installation. If you are using a firewall, please open port 80 to enable access to the control panel.

Congratulation’s! You have successfully installed BlogoText CMS. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing BlogoText content management system on your Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you to check the official BlogoText web site.