How to Install Baun CMS on Linuxmint 19

Installation Of Baun CMS On Linux Mint 19

Baun CMS is an open source, lightweight and extensible flat-file CMS for PHP. It doesn't require database and administration back-end and is a perfect solution for small websites. The main advantages of a flat-file CMS systems are simplicity, portability, security, speed and version control. This tutorial covers the installation of baun cms on Linux Mint 19.

Installation procedure

Check the Linuxmint version by using the following command.

root@linuxhelp:~# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	LinuxMint
Description:	Linux Mint 19 Tara
Release:	19
Codename:	tara

Downlaod the baun cms installation package using wget command

root@linuxhelp:~# wget https://github.com/BaunCMS/Baun/archive/1.3.2.zip
--2019-07-27 02:32:31--  https://github.com/BaunCMS/Baun/archive/1.3.2.zip
Resolving github.com (github.com)... 192.30.253.112, 192.30.253.113
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|192.30.253.112|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: https://codeload.github.com/BaunCMS/Baun/zip/1.3.2 [following]
--2019-07-27 02:32:33--  https://codeload.github.com/BaunCMS/Baun/zip/1.3.2
Resolving codeload.github.com (codeload.github.com)... 192.30.253.120, 192.30.253.121
Connecting to codeload.github.com (codeload.github.com)|192.30.253.120|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [application/zip]
Saving to: ‘1.3.2.zip’
1.3.2.zip                         [  <=>                                             ]  26.38K  87.5KB/s    in 0.3s    
2019-07-27 02:32:36 (51.2 KB/s) - ‘1.3.2.zip’ saved [27014]

Once the download is complete extract the download package using unzip command

root@linuxhelp:~# unzip 1.3.2.zip
Archive:  1.3.2.zip
a9e698e9e16e8a9785b95bdc89eeee0c487d78ee
   creating: Baun-1.3.2/
  inflating: Baun-1.3.2/.gitignore   
  inflating: Baun-1.3.2/CHANGELOG.md  
  inflating: Baun-1.3.2/LICENSE      
  inflating: Baun-1.3.2/README.md    
  inflating: Baun-1.3.2/auto-install.php  
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extracting: Baun-1.3.2/public/themes/baun/bower_components/skeleton/images/favicon.png  
  inflating: Baun-1.3.2/public/themes/baun/bower_components/skeleton/index.html  
  inflating: Baun-1.3.2/public/themes/baun/layout.html  
  inflating: Baun-1.3.2/public/themes/baun/page.html  
  inflating: Baun-1.3.2/public/themes/baun/post.html  
  inflating: Baun-1.3.2/public/themes/baun/style.css  

Move the baun cms directory to apache root directory

root@linuxhelp:~# mv Baun-1.3.2 /var/www/baun

Set the ownership and permission for baun cms directory

root@linuxhelp:~# chown -R www-data.www-data /var/www/baun

root@linuxhelp:~# chmod -R 775 /var/www/baun

Once the above step is completed configure the virtualhost for accessing baun cms

root@linuxhelp:~# vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/baun.conf
<Virtualhost *:80>
Servername www.linuxhelp1.com
Documentroot /var/www/baun/public
<directory /var/www/baun/public>
allowoverride all
allow from all
</directory>
</virtualhost>

Enter into the baun cms directory

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

Install the composer package by using the following command

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/baun# apt install composer
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  git git-man jsonlint liberror-perl php-composer-ca-bundle php-composer-semver php-composer-spdx-licenses
  php-composer-xdebug-handler php-json-schema php-psr-log php-symfony-console php-symfony-debug php-symfony-filesystem
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Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.4-2) ...
Setting up php-composer-spdx-licenses (1.4.0-1) ...
Setting up php-symfony-polyfill-ctype (1.9.0-1) ...
Setting up php-symfony-polyfill-mbstring (1.9.0-1) ...
Setting up jsonlint (1.7.1-1) ...
Setting up git (1:2.19.1-1ubuntu1.1) ...
Setting up php-symfony-process (3.4.15+dfsg-2ubuntu4) ...
Setting up php-symfony-debug (3.4.15+dfsg-2ubuntu4) ...
Setting up php-symfony-console (3.4.15+dfsg-2ubuntu4) ...
Setting up php-symfony-filesystem (3.4.15+dfsg-2ubuntu4) ...
Setting up composer (1.7.2-1) ...

Enter the composer install

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/baun# composer install
Do not run Composer as root/super user! See https://getcomposer.org/root for details
Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies (including require-dev)
Package operations: 17 installs, 0 updates, 0 removals
  - Installing bauncms/baun-blog-rss (1.0.0): Downloading (100%)         
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  - Installing symfony/polyfill-php55 (v1.11.0): Downloading (100%)         
  - Installing symfony/polyfill-php54 (v1.11.0): Downloading (100%)         
  - Installing symfony/http-foundation (v2.8.49): Downloading (100%)         
  - Installing bauncms/framework (1.4.5): Downloading (100%)         
symfony/console suggests installing symfony/event-dispatcher
symfony/console suggests installing symfony/process
symfony/console suggests installing psr/log-implementation (For using the console logger)
Writing lock file
Generating autoload files

Disable the default site access for enabling baun cms

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

Enabling site access for baun cms

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

Enable the rewrite module

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

Once the all step is completed restart apache service

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/baun#  systemctl restart apache2

Once the above step is completed switch to your browser and enter your domain name

This is the Baun CMS application The method to install Baun CMS on Linux Mint 19 comes to an end.