How to Install Pluck CMS on Ubuntu 20.4.1

To Install Pluck CMS on UBUNTU 20.4.1

Introduction:

The Pluck CMS is a small, powerful, and easy-to-install flat-file CMS. The software is very user-friendly. Anyone who doesn't know how to program can manage their own website with this tool.

Installation Process:

Run lsb_release command to check the installed version of OS as follows.

root@linuxhelp:~# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS
Release:	20.04
Codename:	focal

Change the directory to Apache’s Document root directory

root@linuxhelp:~# cd /var/www/

Create A directory For pluck CMS

root@linuxhelp:/var/www# mkdir pluck
root@linuxhelp:/var/www# cd pluck/

Download the Pluck CMS using wget by copying the link from the website.

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/pluck# wget https://github.com/pluck-cms/pluck/archive/4.7.9-dev1.zip
--2020-11-21 19:06:04--  https://github.com/pluck-cms/pluck/archive/4.7.9-dev1.zip
Resolving github.com (github.com)... 13.234.176.102
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|13.234.176.102|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: https://codeload.github.com/pluck-cms/pluck/zip/4.7.9-dev1 [following]
--2020-11-21 19:06:04--  https://codeload.github.com/pluck-cms/pluck/zip/4.7.9-dev1
Resolving codeload.github.com (codeload.github.com)... 13.127.152.42
Connecting to codeload.github.com (codeload.github.com)|13.127.152.42|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [application/zip]
Saving to: ‘4.7.9-dev1.zip’
4.7.9-dev1.zip                     [       <=>                                          ]   1.54M  1.11MB/s    in 1.4s    
2020-11-21 19:06:06 (1.11 MB/s) - ‘4.7.9-dev1.zip’ saved [1614971]

List the downloaded file:

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/pluck# ls
4.7.9-dev1.zip

Extract the zip file of Pluck CMS 4.7.9 using unzip command as follows:

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/pluck# unzip 4.7.9-dev1.zip 
Archive:  4.7.9-dev1.zip
ca6bc74dd0913554e35b3e1a613bfcc23ce34797
   creating: pluck-4.7.9-dev1/
  inflating: pluck-4.7.9-dev1/README.md  
  inflating: pluck-4.7.9-dev1/admin.php  
   creating: pluck-4.7.9-dev1/data/
   creating: pluck-4.7.9-dev1/data/image/
  inflating: pluck-4.7.9-dev1/data/image/AUTHORS  
 extracting: pluck-4.7.9-dev1/data/image/add.png  
 extracting: pluck-4.7.9-dev1/data/image/add_small.png 

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/pluck# ls
4.7.9-dev1.zip  pluck-4.7.9-dev1

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/pluck# mv pluck-4.7.9-dev1/ final

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/pluck# chown -R www-data. final/

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/pluck# chmod -R 775 final/

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/pluck# cd final/

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/pluck/final# ls
admin.php  data  docs  files  images  index.php  install.php  login.php  README.md  requirements.php  robots.txt

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/pluck/final# chmod 777 files images data data/settings data/settings/langpref.php data/trash data/themes data/modules data/themes/olddata-style data/themes/default

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/pluck/final# vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/pluck.conf

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/pluck/final# a2dissite 000-default.conf 
Site 000-default disabled.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
  systemctl reload apache2

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/pluck/final# a2ensite pluck.conf
Enabling site pluck.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
  systemctl reload apache2

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/pluck/final# a2enmod rewrite
Enabling module rewrite.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
  systemctl restart apache2

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/pluck/final# systemctl restart apache2