How to Install Tiki Wiki CMS on CentOS 7.5

Installation of Tiki Wiki CMS on Centos 7.5

Requirements for Tiki Wiki CMS:

Apache

MariaDB

PHP and its modules

php php-xml php-mysql php-mbstring php-zip php-soap php-curl php-gd php-ldap php-imap php-common php-mcrypt

Installation procedure

Check the Centos version by using the following command. [root@linuxhelp ~]# rpm -q centos-release centos-release-7-5.1804.el7.centos.x86_64

Configure the MySQL database. Log into MySQL as a root user and make the necessary settings.

[root@linuxhelp ~]# mysql -u root -p
Enter password: 
Welcome to the MariaDB monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MariaDB connection id is 10
Server version: 5.5.60-MariaDB MariaDB Server

Copyright (c) 2000, 2018, Oracle, MariaDB Corporation Ab and others.

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.

MariaDB [(none)]> create database tikidb;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

MariaDB [(none)]> create user 'tikiuser'@localhost identified by '123456';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.03 sec)

MariaDB [(none)]> grant all privileges on tikidb.* to 'tikiuser'@localhost;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.02 sec)

MariaDB [(none)]> flush privileges;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

MariaDB [(none)]> Ctrl-C -- exit!
Aborted

Once the database configuration is done, download the installation package of Tiki Wiki CMS by using the wget command. The download link is given in the command.

[root@linuxhelp ~]# wget https://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/project/tikiwiki/Tiki_18.x_Alcyone/18.2/tiki-18.2.zip
--2019-05-16 14:59:48--  https://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/project/tikiwiki/Tiki_18.x_Alcyone/18.2/tiki-18.2.zip
Resolving nchc.dl.sourceforge.net (nchc.dl.sourceforge.net)... 211.79.60.17, 2001:e10:ffff:1f02::17
Connecting to nchc.dl.sourceforge.net (nchc.dl.sourceforge.net)|211.79.60.17|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 53235353 (51M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘tiki-18.2.zip’

100%[==========================================================>] 53,235,353   639KB/s   in 2m 14s 

2019-05-16 15:02:04 (389 KB/s) - ‘tiki-18.2.zip’ saved [53235353/53235353]

Once the download is completed extract the downloaded package using unzip command.

[root@linuxhelp ~]# unzip tiki-18.2.zip
Archive:  tiki-18.2.zip
   creating: tiki-18.2/
  inflating: tiki-18.2/tiki-print_pages.php  
  inflating: tiki-18.2/tiki-list_trackers.php  
  inflating: tiki-18.2/tiki-file_archives.php  
  inflating: tiki-18.2/tiki-user_assigned_modules.php  
.
.
  inflating: tiki-18.2/vendor_extra/anythingslider-themes/images/bkgd-leather.jpg  
 extracting: tiki-18.2/vendor_extra/anythingslider-themes/images/tabs-dark2.png  
  inflating: tiki-18.2/vendor_extra/anythingslider-themes/images/polished.png  
   creating: tiki-18.2/vendor_extra/webodf/
  inflating: tiki-18.2/vendor_extra/webodf/webodf.js  
  inflating: tiki-18.2/vendor_extra/index.php  
  inflating: tiki-18.2/tiki-minichat_ajax.php

Move the Tiki Wiki CMS directory to apache root directory.

[root@linuxhelp ~]# mv tiki-18.2 /var/www/tiki

Set the ownership and permission for Tiki Wiki CMS by using the following command.

[root@linuxhelp ~]# chown -R apache:apache /var/www/tiki

[root@linuxhelp ~]# chmod -R 755 /var/www/tiki

Configure the virtualhost for accessing the Tiki Wiki CMS.

[root@linuxhelp ~]# vim /etc/httpd/conf.d/tiki.conf

<Virtualhost *:80>
Servername www.linuxhelp1.com
Documentroot /var/www/tiki
<directory /var/www/tiki>
allowoverride all
allow from all
</directory>
</Virtualhost>

Restart the apache service by using the following command.

[root@linuxhelp ~]# systemctl restart httpd

Switch to your browser and enter the domain name. The Welcome document of Tiki wiki CMS will appear on your screen. Select the required language and proceed further. Accept the license agreement. Verify the requirements. Configure the database detail. And then choose the database type to proceed the installation. After the installation is completed you will see the following page as shown below Next, configure the site information and Admin user credential setup. You will see that last note of Tiki Wiki CMS. After all the configuration setup done you will see the following page, enter into Tiki Wiki CMS.
Create your admin password after the installation complete and login into Tiki Wiki CMS. After verifying all the configuration setup you can start the Tiki Wiki CMS. You'll be taken to the dashboard of Tiki Wiki CMS. With this, the method to install Tikiwiki CMS on Centos 7.5 comes to an end.