How to install Quick CMS on Ubuntu 20.4.1

To Install Quick CMS on Ubuntu 20.4.1

Introduction:

Quick CMS is an ideal choice for beginners and for people who are looking to make simple websites. It is one of the easiest solutions available on the Internet. A basic understanding of HTML and CSS is needed to design the site

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

Install Apache by using below command:

root@linuxhelp:~# apt install apache2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  apache2-bin apache2-data apache2-utils libapr1 libaprutil1 libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3 libaprutil1-ldap liblua5.2-0
Suggested packages:
  apache2-doc apache2-suexec-pristine | apache2-suexec-custom
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  apache2 apache2-bin apache2-data apache2-utils libapr1 libaprutil1 libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3 libaprutil1-ldap liblua5.2-0
0 upgraded, 9 newly installed, 0 to remove and 186 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,819 kB of archives.
After this operation, 7,935 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 libapr1 amd64 1.6.5-1ubuntu1 [91.4 kB]
Get:2 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 libaprutil1 amd64 1.6.1-4ubuntu2 [84.7 kB]

Start the apache by following command

root@linuxhelp:~# systemctl start apache2

Check the status of apache:

root@linuxhelp:~# systemctl status apache2
● apache2.service - The Apache HTTP Server
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/apache2.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Wed 2020-11-25 11:38:42 IST; 47s ago
       Docs: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/
   Main PID: 2784 (apache2)
      Tasks: 55 (limit: 2285)
     Memory: 5.5M
     CGroup: /system.slice/apache2.service
             ├─2784 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
             ├─2786 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
             └─2787 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start

Nov 25 11:38:42 linuxhelp systemd[1]: Starting The Apache HTTP Server...
Nov 25 11:38:42 linuxhelp apachectl[2783]: AH00558: apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain>
Nov 25 11:38:42 linuxhelp systemd[1]: Started The Apache HTTP Server.

Install PHP modules by using below commands:

root@linuxhelp:~# apt install php php-xml php-mysql php-mbstring php-zip php-soap php-sqlite3 php-curl php-gd php-ldap php-imap php-common
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libapache2-mod-php7.4 libc-client2007e libonig5 libzip5 mlock php7.4 php7.4-cli php7.4-common php7.4-curl php7.4-gd
  php7.4-imap php7.4-json php7.4-ldap php7.4-mbstring php7.4-mysql php7.4-opcache php7.4-readline php7.4-soap php7.4-sqlite3
  php7.4-xml php7.4-zip

Install mysql by using below command:

root@linuxhelp:~# apt install mysql-server
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libaio1 libcgi-fast-perl libcgi-pm-perl libevent-core-2.1-7 libevent-pthreads-2.1-7 libfcgi-perl libhtml-template-perl
  libmecab2 mecab-ipadic mecab-ipadic-utf8 mecab-utils mysql-client-8.0 mysql-client-core-8.0 mysql-server-8.0
  mysql-server-core-8.0
Suggested packages:
  libipc-sharedcache-perl mailx tinyca
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libaio1 libcgi-fast-perl libcgi-pm-perl libevent-core-2.1-7 libevent-pthreads-2.1-7 libfcgi-perl libhtml-template-perl

Create database for quick CMS:

root@linuxhelp:~# mysql -u root -p
Enter password: 
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 8
Server version: 8.0.22-0ubuntu0.20.04.2 (Ubuntu)
Copyright (c) 2000, 2020, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its
affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective
owners.
Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.
mysql> create database quick;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.02 sec)
mysql> use quick;
Database changed
mysql> create user user1@localhost identified by 'linuxc';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.02 sec)
mysql>  grant all on quick.* to user1@localhost;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)
mysql> flush privileges;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)
mysql> exit
Bye

root@linuxhelp:~# cd /var/www

root@linuxhelp:/var/www#  mkdir quick

root@linuxhelp:/var/www# cd quick

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/quick# wget https://opensolution.org/download/home.html?sFile=Quick.Cms_v6.6-en.zip
--2020-11-25 11:45:44--  https://opensolution.org/download/home.html?sFile=Quick.Cms_v6.6-en.zip
Resolving opensolution.org (opensolution.org)... 94.152.51.156
Connecting to opensolution.org (opensolution.org)|94.152.51.156|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [application/zip]
Saving to: ‘home.html?sFile=Quick.Cms_v6.6-en.zip’
home.html?sFile=Quick.Cms_v6.6-     [            <=>                                       ] 787.35K  92.0KB/s    in 8.6s    
2020-11-25 11:45:56 (92.0 KB/s) - ‘home.html?sFile=Quick.Cms_v6.6-en.zip’ saved [806242]

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/quick# ll
total 796
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   4096 Nov 25 11:45  ./
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root   4096 Nov 25 11:45  ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 806242 Nov 25 11:45 'home.html?sFile=Quick.Cms_v6.6-en.zip'

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/quick# unzip home.html\?sFile\=Quick.Cms_v6.6-en.zip 
Archive:  home.html?sFile=Quick.Cms_v6.6-en.zip
   creating: core/
  inflating: core/common-admin.js    
  inflating: core/common-admin.php   
  inflating: core/common.js          
  inflating: core/common.php         
  inflating: core/files-admin.php    
  inflating: core/files.php          
  inflating: core/lang-admin.php  

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/quick# chown -R www-data. ./
root@linuxhelp:/var/www/quick# chmod -R 775 ./

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/quick# ll
total 828
drwxrwxr-x 7 www-data www-data   4096 Nov 25 11:46  ./
drwxr-xr-x 4 root     root       4096 Nov 25 11:45  ../
-rwxrwxr-x 1 www-data www-data   3573 Dec 28  2016  admin.php*
drwxrwxr-x 3 www-data www-data   4096 Jan 17  2019  core/
drwxrwxr-x 3 www-data www-data   4096 Jan 18  2019  database/
drwxrwxr-x 4 www-data www-data   4096 Jan 17  2019  files/
-rwxrwxr-x 1 www-data www-data 806242 Nov 25 11:45 'home.html?sFile=Quick.Cms_v6.6-en.zip'*
-rwxrwxr-x 1 www-data www-data     63 Jan 18  2019  HOW_TO_INSTALL.txt*
-rwxrwxr-x 1 www-data www-data   2628 Dec 31  2018  index.php*
drwxrwxr-x 5 www-data www-data   4096 Jan  3  2019  plugins/
drwxrwxr-x 4 www-data www-data   4096 Jan 17  2019  templates/

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/quick# chmod -R 777 database files

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/quick# cd database

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/quick/database# ll
total 68
drwxrwxrwx 3 www-data www-data  4096 Jan 18  2019 ./
drwxrwxr-x 7 www-data www-data  4096 Nov 25 11:46 ../
drwxrwxrwx 2 www-data www-data  4096 Jan 18  2019 cache/
-rwxrwxrwx 1 www-data www-data  1905 Jan 18  2019 config_en.php*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 www-data www-data 13261 Jan 18  2019 config.php*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 www-data www-data 22528 Jan 18  2019 database.db*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 www-data www-data    31 Sep  4  2012 .htaccess*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 www-data www-data  5985 Jan 18  2019 lang_en.php*

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/quick/database# vim config.php 

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

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

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

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

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/quick/database# systemctl restart apache2