Ghost CMS is a CMS intended for the creation of any website on the Internet. What makes it popular is that it has default tools to improve the profitability of the website.

It has many unique themes so you can get an almost unique design for your site. Also, install them with just a few clicks and no complex configurations.

It is widely used worldwide and is one of the most solid alternatives to WordPress. So, you must know how to install it if you are looking for the ideal CMS for you.

Let’s get started.

Install Ghost CMS on Ubuntu 20.04

Before performing any operation on the server, it is recommended that you know that you need a valid A domain pointing to your server. Moreover, we will do the tutorial on a clean Ubuntu installation.

Install Nginx on Ubuntu 20.04

So, Nginx and Apache are the best web servers out there. But in this case, we will opt for Nginx to take advantage of the default configuration of Ghost CMS.

In a Terminal session, update first the server

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

Next install it:

sudo apt install nginx
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  fontconfig-config fonts-dejavu-core libfontconfig1 libgd3 libjbig0 libjpeg-turbo8 libjpeg8 libnginx-mod-http-image-filter libnginx-mod-http-xslt-filter
  libnginx-mod-mail libnginx-mod-stream libtiff5 libwebp6 libx11-6 libx11-data libxau6 libxcb1 libxdmcp6 libxpm4 libxslt1.1 nginx-common nginx-core
Suggested packages:
  libgd-tools fcgiwrap nginx-doc ssl-cert
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  fontconfig-config fonts-dejavu-core libfontconfig1 libgd3 libjbig0 libjpeg-turbo8 libjpeg8 libnginx-mod-http-image-filter libnginx-mod-http-xslt-filter
  libnginx-mod-mail libnginx-mod-stream libtiff5 libwebp6 libx11-6 libx11-data libxau6 libxcb1 libxdmcp6 libxpm4 libxslt1.1 nginx nginx-common nginx-core
0 upgraded, 23 newly installed, 0 to remove and 19 not upgraded.
Need to get 3,334 kB of archives.
After this operation, 11.6 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

And now proceed to enable it to start with the system.

sudo systemctl enable nginx
Synchronizing state of nginx.service with SysV service script with /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install.
Executing: /lib/systemd/systemd/systemd-sysv-install enable nginx

Next, check the status of the Nginx service.

sudo systemctl status nginx
● nginx.service - A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/nginx.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Fri 2021-07-30 18:00:13 CEST; 23s ago
       Docs: man:nginx(8)
   Main PID: 1796 (nginx)
      Tasks: 3 (limit: 2286)
     Memory: 5.0M
     CGroup: /system.slice/nginx.service
             ├─1796 nginx: master process /usr/sbin/nginx -g daemon on; master_process on;
             ├─1797 nginx: worker process
             └─1798 nginx: worker process

Jul 30 18:00:13 osradar systemd[1]: Starting A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server...
Jul 30 18:00:13 osradar systemd[1]: Started A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server.

Install and configuring MariaDB for Ghost CMS

The next step is to install MariaDB which you can do from the official repositories, or if you want to get a newer version you can do it by installing MariaDB 10.5 on Ubuntu 20.04.

In either case, you have to run the mysql_secure_installation script to assign a root key and other settings.

After that, access the MariaDB shell to create the database and the new user that has permissions on it.

sudo mysql -u root -p
CREATE DATABASE ghostdb;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON ghostdb.* TO 'user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
exit;

You can assign a different database name, user name, and password.

Install Ghost CMS on Ubuntu 20.04

The best way to install Ghost is through ghost-cli a tool created by the developers to ease Ghost administration. So, this tool is built with NodeJS so we have to install it.

So, add the repository of version 14.x

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_14.x | sudo -E bash

Then, install NodeJS along with other useful and recommended packages.

sudo apt install nodejs gcc g++ make

And proceed to install the tool as follows:

sudo npm install ghost-cli@latest -g

Now create the folder where we will install ghost in the path /var/www/.

sudo mkdir -p /var/www/ghost/

Make your user the owner of the folder and assign appropriate permissions to it.

sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /var/www/ghost/
sudo chmod 775 /var/www/ghost

Now go to the folder and from there perform the installation.

cd /var/www/ghost/
ghost install

And during the installation, you will have to answer some site configuration questions.

? Enter your blog URL: https://[your-domain]
? Enter your MySQL hostname: localhost
? Enter your MySQL username: user
? Enter your MySQL password: [hidden]
? Enter your Ghost database name: ghostdb
? Configuring Ghost
? Setting up instance
? Do you wish to set up Nginx? Yes
? Do you wish to set up Systemd? Yes
? Do you want to start Ghost? (Y/n) Y

When finished, you can access your website and start working. Enjoy it.

Conclusion

The installation of Ghost CMS is easy for all the potential it has. With it, you will be able to deploy a professional website quickly.

I hope you enjoyed it.

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Microweber is a compact and quite complete CMS that allows us to deploy our blog or website quickly and easily. In addition to this, it allows us to manage it from a comfortable web interface where you can use a graphical editor to create the site.

With Microweber you can expect everything that a CMS can do, create, manage a website. Ideal for blogging or virtual stores, Microweber is a CMS to take into account.

Install Microweber CMS on Debian 10

Install LAMP on Debian 10

Microweber is a CMS that relies on PHP and a database manager like MariaDB. So we have to install the LAMP on Debian 10 stack.

However, the latest version of Microweber requires at least PHP 7.3 so we have to install PHP 8 on Debian 10.

Within the PHP modules that you have to install, you can’t miss these and other necessary packages.

php8.0 libapache2-mod-php php-common php-mbstring php-xmlrpc php-soap php-mysql php-gd php-xml php-cli php-zip php-curl unzip wget

Creating a new database and user

It would be best to create the database for Microweber CMS ourselves. Also, we will have to create a dedicated user for security reasons.

Open the MariaDB shell

sudo mysql -u root -p

Create the new database:

CREATE DATABASE microweberdb;

The database name can be whatever you want. Now create the user along with the password.

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON microweberdb.* TO 'microweberuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'microweberpss';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

You can use any other username and password you want.

Now exit the shell

exit;

Now we can continue.

Download and install Microweber CMS on Debian 10

Now we can download and install Microweber. So, do it from the /tmp/ folder and using the command wget.

cd /tmp/
wget https://microweber.com/download.php -O microweber-latest.zip
--2021-07-29 18:09:16--  https://microweber.com/download.php
Resolving microweber.com (microweber.com)... 148.251.51.133
Connecting to microweber.com (microweber.com)|148.251.51.133|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: https://microweber.org/download.php [following]
--2021-07-29 18:09:16--  https://microweber.org/download.php
Resolving microweber.org (microweber.org)... 148.251.51.133
Connecting to microweber.org (microweber.org)|148.251.51.133|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: https://updater.microweberapi.com/microweber-master.zip [following]
--2021-07-29 18:09:17--  https://updater.microweberapi.com/microweber-master.zip
Resolving updater.microweberapi.com (updater.microweberapi.com)... 148.251.51.133
Connecting to updater.microweberapi.com (updater.microweberapi.com)|148.251.51.133|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 162704055 (155M) [application/zip]
Saving to: ‘microweber-latest.zip’

microweber-latest.zip                     100%[=====================================================================================>] 155.17M  87.5MB/s    in 1.8s

2021-07-29 18:09:18 (87.5 MB/s) - ‘microweber-latest.zip’ saved [162704055/162704055]

Now create a folder in the Apache root directory where we will unzip the downloaded file.

sudo mkdir /var/www/html/microweber
sudo unzip microweber-latest.zip -d /var/www/html/microweber

Now make the folder belong to Apache and have the proper permissions.

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

Then it is convenient to create a new virtualhost for Apache to manage the site properly.

sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/microweber.conf

Add the following:

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName blog.osradar.test
  DocumentRoot /var/www/html/microweber/
 
  <Directory />
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
  </Directory>
 
  <Directory /var/www/html/microweber/>
    Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews
    AllowOverride All
    Order allow,deny
    allow from all
  </Directory>

  ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/microweber_error.log
  CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/microweber_access.log combined

</VirtualHost>

Remember to change the ServerName value to your domain. Save the changes and close the editor.

Enable the new configuration and the Apache rewrite module.

sudo a2ensite microweber
sudo a2enmod rewrite

Apply the changes by restarting Apache.

sudo systemctl restart apache2

Optional: Installing Certbot and the Let’s Encrypt certificates

Normally this site would be on the Internet which means that we have to use all possible security. So, we should install the Let’s Encrypt certificates to enable HTTPS.

So, install Certbot and its Apache plugin.

sudo apt install certbot python3-certbot-apache

Then, generate the certificates as follows

sudo certbot --apache --d [your-domain]

Enter your email address and accept the license terms and then restart Apache.

Installing Microweber using the web interface

Now open your web browser and go to https://your-domain and you will see a screen where you can customize the installation.

First, configure the database.

Below, you can configure the layout

And at the end, you can create the Microweber admin user.

So, enjoy it. Now you can start with the work of creating your website.

Conclusion

WordPress dominates the CMS industry but that does not indicate that there is real competition to offer better services. So, now you know how to install Microweber CMS and if you give it a try I am sure you will not be disappointed.

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Bludit is a fairly simple CMS that we can use to deploy a blog or website quickly. One of the main characteristics of this CMS is that it uses files in JSON format to store the content. So, you don’t need to install or configure a database.

Being a modern CMS, it is expected to support Plugins that extend its functionality. There are many so you may find what you need quickly.

Also, Bludit incorporates all the SEO tools to improve your ranking in all the search engines and social networks.

So, it is a good light and fast alternative to other more complete CMS like WordPress.

Install Bludit CMS on Ubuntu 20.04

Being a CMS created with PHP we need that in our computer are properly configured the webserver and PHP. You could run the LAMP stack on Ubuntu 20.04 but Bludit does not require a database driver so it is not necessary.

To install Apache and PHP along with some extra modules and packages, just open a terminal or connect to the server via SSH and run

sudo apt update
sudo apt install php-cli php-fpm php-fpm php-common php-mbstring php-gd php-xml php-json apache2 libapache2-mod-php unzip git

This way, we will have the packages installed and we will be able to start the installation of Bludit

Download and install Bludit CMS

First, create the folder in the path where you want to install it. In this case, I have chosen /var/www/bludit.

sudo mkdir -p /var/www/bludit

And now go to /tmp/ and from there with the help of the wget command perform the download.

cd /tmp
wget https://www.bludit.com/releases/bludit-3-13-1.zip
--2021-05-17 23:37:47--  https://www.bludit.com/releases/bludit-3-13-1.zip
Resolving www.bludit.com (www.bludit.com)... 2606:4700:3035::6815:5322, 2606:4700:3032::ac43:d323, 172.67.211.35, ...
Connecting to www.bludit.com (www.bludit.com)|2606:4700:3035::6815:5322|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1917816 (1.8M) [application/zip]
Saving to: ‘bludit-3-13-1.zip’

bludit-3-13-1.zip                          100%[=====================================================================================>]   1.83M  --.-KB/s    in 0.1s    

2021-05-17 23:37:47 (13.5 MB/s) - ‘bludit-3-13-1.zip’ saved [1917816/1917816]

Note: at the time of this post, the latest stable version is 3.13.1 to know which is the latest version available you have to go to the Bludit website.

After this, unzip the file

sudo unzip bludit-3-13-1.zip

And now the unzipped content, move it to the directory you created for this purpose.

sudo mv bludit-3-13-1/* /var/www/bludit/

Make the bludit folder belong to Apache.

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

Next, you need to create a new VirtualHost for Bludit.

sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/bludit.conf

And add the following configuration:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName bludit.osradar.test
    DocumentRoot /var/www/bludit
    <Directory /var/www/bludit>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        allow from all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Replace the value of ServerName with the value of your domain. Save the changes and close the text editor.

To apply the changes, disable the default VirtualHost, enable the newly created one for Bludit, enable the rewrite module of Apache and restart it.

sudo a2dissite 000-default.conf
sudo a2ensite bludit.conf
sudo a2enmod rewrite
sudo systemctl restart apache2

Complete the Bludit CMS installation

Now, open a web browser of your choice and go to http://your-domain/install where you will see the initial installer screen.

Next, set a password for the admin user and press the Install button.

And the Bludit CMS instance will be ready on your server.

From there you will be able to access the Admin Panel

Now you just have to give it a try and make the most of it.

Conclusion

This simple and powerful CMS is a sample of the number of alternatives that exist today to create a fully functional website. With Bludit CMS you don’t need a database manager which further lowers your computer requirements.

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Prerequisites

• A web server such as Apache, Nginx or Microsoft IIS
• Any of the following databases: MySQL – 5.5.3 (MariaDB 5.5.20, Percona 5.5.8) or higher with an InnoDB-compatible primary storage engine. PostgreSQL – 9.1.2 or higher. SQLite – 3.4.2 or higher

However, all these requirements can be met by using a program like XAMPP. See here how to use and configure it.

Downloading Drupal for Windows 10

This software can be downloaded for free from here. Please download the compressed file in .zip format.

Creating the new database.

Now it is necessary to create the new database. Indeed, this is essential to be able to use Drupal. Consequently, it opens the XAMMP control center. Once there, please click on the MySQL Configure button.

Immediately the database manager will be deployed. Please click on New. Then assign the name you want and finally click on Create.

Decompressing the downloaded file.

Back to the previously downloaded file, it’s time to do two steps. First decompress it and assign a simpler name to the folder. In my case Drupal. Then move it to the next location:

C:\xampp\htdocs

Starting the Drupal installation in Windows 10

Once these previous steps are done, it is time to start the installation of Drupal. With this in mind, open the following address in your web browser.

http://localhost/Drupal 

Please note that this address may vary depending on the name of the assigned folder. The installer will be immediately deployed. First set the preferred language.

Then, the wizard offers the installation mode. Standard, minimum or a sample Demo. For the purposes of this tutorial, I selected the Standard installation

The assistant will then verify the requirements for running Drupal. In this case, my server needs opcache. However, this component is not essential to run the installation. Therefore, we can skip it

In the next screen, please enter the parameters of the database. Please remember to enter the name of the database you just created.

Now wait a few moments while the installation of Drupal

Once the installation is complete, it is time to set up the website. Please set the name and email address of the website. It is also necessary to assign a username and password. This user must also be provided with an email address. In addition to the region parameters.

Finally the installation will be finished!

From now on, you just have to start the server and paste the following web address:

http://localhost/drupal 

This way we have seen how to install Drupal in Windows 10. So you can enjoy this powerful and friendly framework. See you soon!

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Joomla, in short, is a CMS like WordPress or many more. Thanks to Joomla you can quickly create a dynamic website like a blog. And the best thing is that you can manage it from a very efficient administration panel.

With Joomla you will have access to many templates optimized for the mobile. This will make your site practically unique and ready to use. Moreover, Joomla can be capable of many more things thanks to the available extensions.

In addition to this, there is complete user management including multiple levels of permissions.

So, let’s get started.

Install Joomla on Debian 10

Install LAMP on Debian 10

Joomla is a web application made with PHP. This means that to install it you need to have a web server running. It also requires a database manager such as MySQL, MariaDB or PostgreSQL to store the data.

So this is the first step.

How to install LAMP on Debian10?

Also, you have to install some PHP modules for Joomla to run correctly. These packages and modules are:

openssl php-imagick php7.3-common php7.3-curl php7.3-gd php7.3-imap php7.3-intl php7.3-json php7.3-ldap php7.3-mbstring php7.3-mysql php7.3-pgsql php-smbclient php-ssh2 php7.3-sqlite3 php7.3-xml php7.3-zip

Then you can continue the post.

Create a new user and database for Joomla

Joomla processes and stores data continuously and requires a database manager. It is compatible with MariaDB, MySQL and PostgreSQL and they are all very good. In this case, I have chosen MariaDB.

On the other hand, it is not convenient to let the root user be in charge of handling the data. This is a security problem. So let’s create a new database and user for Joomla.

So, open the MariaDB console and run:

:~$ sudo mysql -u root -p
> CREATE YOUR DATABASE joomladb;
> GRANT ALL ON joomladb.* TO 'joomlauser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'joomlapss';
> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
> EXIT;

We will now proceed to download Joomla.

Download Joomla on Debian 10

At the time of writing this post, the latest stable version of Joomla is 3.9.16 which recommends the use of PHP 7.3 onwards.

So, go to the /tmp/ folder and download from there.

:~$ cd /tmp/
:~$ wget -c https://downloads.joomla.org/cms/joomla3/3-9-16/Joomla_3-9-16-Stable-Full_Package.zip

Then create a folder for Joomla.

:~$ sudo -p mkdir /var/www/html/joomla

Then decompress it with the unzip command. If you do not have unzip, you can install it.

:~$ sudo apt install unzip
:~$ sudo unzip Joomla_3-9-16-Stable-Full_Package.zip -d /var/www/html/joomla

In order for Joomla to run smoothly, you must change the permissions of the folder where it is installed. Also, the owner of the folder must be changed.

:~$ sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/joomla 
:~$ sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/joomla

Now we have to create a new virtual host dedicated to Joomla.

:~$ sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/joomla.conf

And add the following:

<VirtualHost *:80>
       ServerAdmin admin@your_domain.com
       DocumentRoot /var/www/html/joomla
       ServerName your-domain.com

       <Directory /var/www/html/joomla>
             Options FollowSymlinks
             AllowOverride All
             Require all granted
       </Directory>

ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/your-domain.com_error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/your-domain.com_access.log combined

</VirtualHost>

Replace “your domain” with yours. As well as the other configurations. Then save the changes and close the file.

So, enable the new Virtualhost. Enable the rewrite module too and restart Apache.

:~$ sudo ln -s /etc/apache2/sites-available/joomla.conf /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/joomla.conf
:~$ sudo a2enmod rewrite
:~$ sudo systemctl restart apache2

So, complete the installation.

Install Joomla on Debian 10

Open your favorite web browser. And go to your server. You will see the following.

In this window, you have to set up the administrator account. As well as the initial site settings.

Then click on next.

In this screen, you have to configure the parameters of the database. Write the name of the database created as well as the user and the password.

So, click on Next.

On this screen, you will make the last settings of the site. You can choose whether to use a data sample or not.

Also, you will see a review of the server requirements. Check everything and click install.

If everything went well, you should see the following picture:

Next, you will see the log in page.

Next, you will see the application dashboard.

So, create a new website with Joomla. Enjoy it.

Conclusion

Joomla is a marvel of open source. With it, you can create your personal websites and even blogs. So now it’s up to you to take advantage of it after you’ve learned how to install it on a server with Debian 10.

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What is WordPress?

WordPress is a CMS (content manager system) that is to say it is an application that allows you to create a blog of information. However, over time has evolved and not only provides services to create blogs but corporate websites or what you can imagine.

Thanks to WordPress and CMS, publish news and entries, do not require knowledge of HTML or PHP, but everything is visual.

So, if you want to have a personal blog or for educational purposes, WordPress is a pretty good solution.

So, let us start.

Install WordPress with Lighttpd on Debian 10

Install Lighttpd on Debian 10

Obviously the first step is to install and run Lighttpd on Debian 10. But don’t worry, we have prepared a post for you so you can do it without any problems.

How to install Lighttpd on Debian 10?

Of course, additionally, you have to install some extra PHP modules to make WordPress work properly.

php7.3 php7.3-fpm php7.3-mysql php7.3-cli php7.3-curl php7.3-xml php-json php-zip php-mbstring php-gd php-intl php-cgi

Once you have installed them, it is now the turn of the database manager.

Create a new database and user for WordPress

Now it’s time to install a database manager. In this case, we will opt for MariaDB. First we install it with the following command:

:~$ sudo apt install mariadb-server

Then, once the installation is complete, the mysq_secure_installation script must be run to define a new key for the root user and other configurations.

:~$ sudo mysql_secure_installation

After defining the new password for the root user, you will have to answer a few questions.

Remove anonymous users? Y
Disallow root login remotely? Y
Remove test database and access to it? Y
Reload privilege tables now? Y

Now access the MariaDB console to create the database for WordPress and a new user.

:~$ sudo mysql -u root -p
> CREATE DATABASE wordpress;
> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES on wordpress.* TO 'wordpress_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'wordpress_pss123';
> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
> EXIT;

That’s enough. Now let’s download WordPress.

Download WordPress on Debian 10

Now we can download and install WordPress. So let’s go for it.

Go to the /tmp folder and from there do the download using wget.

:~$ cd /tmp
:~$ wget -c https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz

Then, unzip it.

:~$ tar -xvzf latest.tar.gz

Then move it to /var/www/html/ and change the permissions of the folder as well as the owner of it.

:~$ sudo mv wordpress/ /var/www/html/
:~$ sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/wordpress/
:~$ sudo chmod 755 -R /var/www/html/wordpress/

Now we will create a new virtual host in Lighttpd.

First, let’s rename the WordPress folder with the name of the virtual host you want. In this case I will choose wordpress.osradar.lan. Obviously you are free to choose yours.

:~$ sudo mv /var/www/html/wordpress/ /var/www/html/wordpress.osradar.lan

Then, create the folder dedicated to virtual hosts in Lighttpd.

:~$ sudo mkdir -p /etc/lighttpd/vhosts.d/

And add it to the main Lighttpd configuration file:

:~$ sudo nano /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

include_shell "cat /etc/lighttpd/vhosts.d/*.conf"

Save the changes and close the file.

Now create the configuration file for the new Virtual host.

:~$ sudo nano /etc/lighttpd/vhosts.d/wordpress.osradar.lan.conf

Note how the file name equals the WordPress folder. This is for recommendation. Now add the following:

$HTTP["host"] =~ "(^|.)wordpress.osradar.lan$" {
server.document-root = "/var/www/html/wordpress.osradar.lan"
server.errorlog = "/var/log/lighttpd/wordpress.osradar.lan-error.log"
accesslog.filename = "/var/log/lighttpd/wordpress.osradar.lan-access.log"
url.rewrite-final = ("^/(.*.php)" => "$0", "^/(.*)$" => "/index.php/$1" )
}

Save the changes and close the file.

Now, check the syntax.

:~$ sudo lighttpd -t -f /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
Syntax OK

And restart Lighttpd.

:~$ sudo systemctl restart lighttpd

Now, complete the installation using the web interface.

Install WordPress with Lighttpd on Debian

Now, open your web browser and go complete the installation. Remember that the address depends on your virtual host and your server. You will see the following:

Now, type your database credentials.

Now, start the installation.

After that, configure the site information and the admin password.

If everything went well, you’ll see this screen:

Then you can log in with your username and password and you will see the dashboard.

So, that is it.

Conclusion

While it is true that WordPress is very popular, most installations are done with Apache or Nginx. Well, today we’ve shown you how to use it with another fast and lightweight web server like Lighttpd.

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There are companies today that create websites only available from the business network. Many with the purpose of communicating with workers, or making available resources of the company. At least, in my environment, there are several companies that do it. And they use WordPress to deploy them. So, the utility of having it installed is maximum.

On the other hand, we may want a personal blog on our own server. Either in the cloud or we have the computer physically.

In any case, WordPress which is a CMS is a software that allows you to make websites or blogs quickly and easily. It also manages the publication and realization of page entries. The ability to customize is quite extensive and almost everything can be done without advanced knowledge of HTML or CSS. In fact, most websites are designed with WordPress. This is where their potential lies.

So, let us install WordPress on CentOS, RHEL and Oracle Linux 8.

1) Install LEMP on CentOS, RHEL and Oracle Linux 8

In order to install WordPress, it is first necessary to have a ready and functional web server. In this case, we have opted for Nginx so we will have to have a LEMP server.

But it is not a problem, because we have done a complete tutorial to install LEMP on CentOS, RHEL and Oracle Linux 8.

Read How to install LEMP on CentOS 8, RHEL 8 and Oracle Linux 8?

You just have to pay attention to have these PHP modules installed

:~# dnf install php php-fpm php-common php-mysqlnd php-gd php-xml php-mbstring php-xml

Once you have the LEMP server up and running, move on.

2) Create a new database user for WordPress

WordPress requires a database manager to store everything that is happening on the site. But not only that but other things more.

For security reasons, it is advisable to create a new user and database dedicated to WordPress. Then, go to the MariaDB console and type.

:~# mysql -u root -p

> CREATE DATABASE wordpressdb;
> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wordpressdb.* TO 'wordpressuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'wordpresspss';
> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
> exit;

Of course, you can define the names you want.

3) Install WordPress on CentOS, RHEL and Oracle Linux (I)

Now we can install WordPress on CentOS / RHEL / Oracle Linux 8. To do this, first, you have to download it using wget. If you do not have it installed, you have to do it first.

:~# cd /tmp/
:~# wget -c https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz

Next, decompress the file.

:~# tar -xvzf latest.tar.gz

Now, you have to move the generated folder to /usr/share/nginx/html/. Then, set the right permissions to the folder.

:~# mv wordpress/ /usr/share/nginx/html/
:~# chown -R nginx:nginx /usr/share/nginx/html/
:~# chmod 755 -R /usr/share/nginx/html/

Then, restart Nginx.

:~# systemctl restart nginx

4) Install WordPress on CentOS, RHEL, Oracle Linux 8 (II)

Now, open your browser and go your server and complete the installation.

Now, type your DB credentials.

Now, we can start the installation.

Then, type the site information.

If everything went well, you will see the following screen.

Now, you can log in to admin your WordPress instance.

Then, you will see the WordPress dashboard.

And that’s it.

Conclusion

In this post, you learned how to install WordPress on CentOS, RHEL and Oracle Linux 8. This way you can deploy quality websites using a reliable web server like Nginx on a robust operating system like those of the Red Hat family. As you can see, the installation is not complicated.

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What is WordPress?

WordPress is a CMS (content manager system) that is to say it is an application that allows you to create a blog of information. However, over time has evolved and not only provides services to create blogs but corporate websites or what you can imagine.

Thanks to WordPress and CMS, publish news and entries, do not require knowledge of HTML or PHP, but everything is visual.

So, if you want to have a personal blog or for educational purposes, WordPress is a pretty good solution.

Install WordPress on Debian 10

1) Install Apache and PHP

Being a web application, you need to have a web server running on our system. Of course, WordPress is compatible with other servers like Nginx, but in this case, we will use Apache webserver.

On the other hand, WordPress is programmed in PHP, so we need the language for it to work.

So, open a terminal session and type:

:~$ sudo apt install apache2 php7.3 libapache2-mod-php7.3 php7.3-common php7.3-mbstring php7.3-xmlrpc php7.3-soap php7.3-gd php7.3-xml php7.3-intl php7.3-mysql php7.3-cli php7.3-ldap php7.3-zip php7.3-curl

Then, create a new PHP file to test the language.

:~$ sudo nano /var/www/html/test.php
<?php
phpinfo();
?>

After that, open it using the web browser, for example http://you-server/test.php. You will see something like this:

So, Apache and PHP are working.

2) Install MySQL

WordPress requires a database manager. In Debian, we have MySQL which is one of the most popular and makes it a pretty good option for it.

To install it, run the following command:

:~$ sudo apt install default-mysql-server

Then, set a root password and secure the installation.

:~$ sudo mysql_secure_installation

Say “y” to all the questions.

After that, it is necessary to create a new database for WordPress. Also, create a new user too.

:~$ sudo mysql -u root -p
> CREATE DATABASE wordpress;
> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES on wordpress.* TO 'wordpress_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'wordpress_pss123';
> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
> EXIT;

Now, we can continue with the next steps.

3) Install WordPress on Debian 10

Now it is your turn to install WordPress. However, first, you have to download it. For that, I will use wget.

So, run the following command:

:~$ cd /tmp/
:~$ wget -c https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz

Then, decompress it and move it to the /var/www/html/ folder. Next, set the right permissions to the folder.

:~$ tar -xvzf latest.tar.gz
:~$ sudo mv wordpress/ /var/www/html/
:~$ sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/wordpress/
:~$ sudo chmod 755 -R /var/www/html/wordpress/

Next, create a new Virtualhost for WordPress.

:~$ sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/wordpress.conf

And add the following:

<VirtualHost *:80>
     ServerAdmin admin@your_domain.com
      DocumentRoot /var/www/html/wordpress
     ServerName your-domain.com

     <Directory /var/www/html/wordpress>
          Options FollowSymlinks
          AllowOverride All
          Require all granted
     </Directory>

     ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/your-domain.com_error.log
     CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/your-domain.com_access.log combined

</VirtualHost>

Of course, replace  “your-domain” with yours. Save the changes and close the file.

Then you have to enable the new Virtualhost and also the Apache rewrite module. And for all this to work, then we’ll have to restart Apache.

:~$ sudo ln -s /etc/apache2/sites-available/wordpress.conf /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/wordpress.conf
:~$ sudo a2enmod rewrite
:~$ sudo systemctl restart apache2

Now complete the installation.

4) Complete the installation using the web interface

Now, you have to complete the installation using the web browser. Access to your server and you will see this. So, select the installation language.

Next, you will see all the steps you have to complete to install WordPress on Debian 10.

Then, set the parameters of the database.

Next, if everything is OK, you will see this. So you can start with the installation.

After that, you have to define the admin account and the site information.

Next, log in.

Finally, you will see the WordPress Dashboard.

And that is it. You can start to work with WordPress and create your web site.

Conclusion

WordPress is a fairly popular CMS. Thanks to this application, you can create your website in a short time and without great knowledge of HTML. Also, in this post, you have seen that installing it is not too complicated for the great advantages it provides.

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Wagtail is built with Python

We have talked about many CMS on this website. Some with very new features and others simpler and focused on a very specific audience. But Wagtail is something different.

Wagtail is an open source CMS that is built with Django and therefore in Python. This has many advantages in the execution of the application. Above all in issues of performance and clarity of code.

On the other hand, many well-known companies use Wagtail to build some websites, like Mozilla or BMW. So, we are in the presence of a quite powerful CMS.

Some of its main features focus on fast content editing using blocks; likewise, Wagtail has a form builder and integrates elasticsearch to do intelligent searches.

Finally, Wagtail wants the user not to waste too much time on configurations. He only spends time perfecting the website. That is to say, it is a CMS out the box. Everything is working for the first time.

So, let us install Wagtail.

First steps to install Wagtail

First, we need to update the system so that all the security patches are properly installed.

Open a terminal or connect to your SSH server and run the following:

:~$ sudo apt update
:~$ sudo apt upgrade

Then you need to install Python, Python PIP and the tool to create virtual environments with Python. So you have to run this command to do it.

:~$ sudo apt install python3 python3-pip python3-venv

Create a virtual environment for Wagtail

The next step is to create a virtual Python environment for Wagtail. This way we will be able to isolate the installation and create more security. Besides that, it will facilitate the installation together with PIP. First, install it.

:~$ sudo pip3 install virtualenv

Then, create a new user. And add it to the sudoers file.

:~$ sudo useradd -m -s /bin/bash wag
:~$ sudo passwd wag
passwd: password updated successfully
:~$ sudo nano /etc/sudoers
wag ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

Next, create a virtual environment.

:~$ su - wag
:~$ virtualenv wagtail

You can replace “wagtail” for any name what you want.

Install Wagtail

Now that we have the virtual environment created, we will be able to install Wagtail. However, first, we must activate it.

:~$ source ~/wagtail/bin/activate

Now, you can install Wagtail.

:~$ pip install wagtail

In this case, the command is PIP and not PIP3. This is because, in Python virtual environments, the PIP command does not distinguish from the version used. Therefore, it will always be PIP regardless of the version we have.

Now,  we can create a new project.

:~$ cd ~
:~$ wagtail start [project_name]

Then, after the project directory is created. You need to follow these commands to start the new project.

:~$ cd [project_name]
:~$ python manage.py migrate
:~$ python manage.py createsuperuser
:~$ python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000

Now, open your web browser and go to http://server-ip:8000. Remember to open the port on the firewall.

And you can go to the admin page on http://server-ip:8000/admin. You can log in with the super user previously created.

Install Gunicorn

Wagtail is an application built in Django. In that aspect, to deploy it is convenient to use a request manager that runs in Python. But ironically, Python is not the best for processing all requests. In this sense, I will use Gunicorn and link it to the project. Then, I’ll install Nginx.

:~$ pip install gunicorn
:~$ cd ~/wagproject
:~$ python manage.py collectstatic
:~$ deactivate
:~$ exit

Now, create a new systemd file to manage gunicorn like a service.

:~$ sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/gunicorn.service

And add the following:

[Unit]
Description=Gunicorn Daemon file
After=network.target

[Service]
User=wag
Group=www-data
WorkingDirectory=/home/wag/wagproject
ExecStart=/home/wag/wagtail/bin/gunicorn --access-logfile - --workers 3 --bind unix:/home/wag/wagproject.sock wagproject.wsgi:application

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Remember, change the user name and the project name so that everything works well.

Press CTRL + O to save the changes and CTRL + X to close the file.

Next, reload all systemd daemon to apply the changes.

:~$ sudo systemctl daemon-reload

Then, start gunicorn.

:~$ sudo systemctl start gunicorn

Install Nginx

As I mentioned earlier, Python is not the best at processing requests. Then, with Nginx, we will be able to improve all that request flow. So let’s install it

:~$ sudo apt install nginx

Now let’s create a new Nginx server block file.

:~$ nano /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/your-domain.conf

Add the following:

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name your-domain.com;

    location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
    location /static/ {
        root /home/wag/wagproject;
    }

    location / {
        proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
        proxy_pass http://unix:/home/wag/wagproject.sock;
    }
}

Save the changes and close the file.

Then, assign permissions on the project folder and add the new user to the www-data group.

:~$ sudo usermod -aG www-data wag
:~$ sudo chmod -R 710 /home/wag

Finally, start and enable Nginx.

:~$ sudo systemctl enable nginx
:~$ sudo systemctl start nginx

Now, you can access to Wagtail using your web browser to your domain.

And that is it.

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WonderCMS is an application that allows you to create and deploy blogs on our server. As its name indicates, it is a CSM. That is to say, it will also help to manage the content of the same one. It’s open source, it’s written in PHP and it’s quite light. It does not require a database manager such as MySQL or MariaDB, this means that it consumes practically no resources.

So, let us start.

Install WonderCMS

1.- Install Apache and PHP

WonderCMS requires a functional web server. It is compatible with several of them, including Nginx and Apache. The latter is one of the most popular and will be the one you install for this post.

Open a terminal or connect to your web server and run:

:~$ sudo apt install apache2

Then, install PHP. WonderCMS requires PHP 7.1, but Ubuntu in its repositories has version 7.2. So there will not be any problems with it.

:~$ sudo apt install php7.2 php7.2-cli libapache2-mod-php php7.2-common php7.2-curl php7.2-zip php7.2-mbstring

Then, test PHP. Create a new file on /var/www/html/ called test.php and add the following:

:~$ sudo nano /var/www/html/test.php
<?php
phpinfo();
?>

Press CTRL + O to save the changes and CTRL + X to exit.

Now, open the file using the web browser. http://your-server/test.php.

So, Apache and PHP are working properly.

2.- Install WonderCMS

Now it’s time to download and install WonderCMS. First, you need to install some necessary packages:

:~$ sudo apt install wget unzip curl git

After that, download WonderCMS.

:~$ wget -c https://github.com/robiso/wondercms/releases/download/2.7.0/WonderCMS-2.7.0.zip

Then, decompress it on /var/www/html/.

:~$ sudo unzip WonderCMS-2.7.0.zip -d /var/www/html/

After that, change the folder owner to www-data.

:~$ sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/wondercms/

Finally, create a new virtualhost for WonderCMS. To do it, create a new file and add the following.

:~$ sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/wonder.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
     ServerAdmin admin@your_domain.com
      DocumentRoot /var/www/html/wondercms
     ServerName your-domain.com

     <Directory /var/www/html/wondercms>
          Options FollowSymlinks
          AllowOverride All
          Require all granted
     </Directory>

     ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/your-domain.com_error.log
     CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/your-domain.com_access.log combined

</VirtualHost>

NOTE: you have to replace your-domain with yours. Do not forget to do it.

Save the changes and close the file.

Next, enable the new virtualhost, the rewrite module and restart apache.

:~$ sudo ln -s /etc/apache2/sites-available/wonder.conf /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/your-domain.conf
:~$ sudo a2enmod rewrite
:~$ sudo systemctl restart apache2

Now, complete the installation using the web browser.

Complete the installation using the web browser

Open your web browser and go to your domain to complete the installation. You should see the following:

Right there, you will see the temporary password and a login link.

Now, you can start to build your site.

Conclusion

In conclusion, we can say that WonderCMS is a very reliable alternative for personal projects. It is true that there are more complete alternatives but also focused on other needs.

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