How to install Flatpress CMS on Rocky Linux 8.6

To Install Flatpress CMS on Rocky Linux 8.6

Introduction

CMS stands for the Content Management System, which is the software used to manage digital content that relies on text files to store all of its content, so it doesn't require MySQL.

Installation Procedure:

Step 1: Check the OS version by using the below command

[root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/os-release 
NAME="Rocky Linux"
VERSION="8.6 (Green Obsidian)"
ID="rocky"
ID_LIKE="rhel centos fedora"
VERSION_ID="8.6"
PLATFORM_ID="platform:el8"
PRETTY_NAME="Rocky Linux 8.6 (Green Obsidian)"
ANSI_COLOR="0;32"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:rocky:rocky:8:GA"
HOME_URL="https://rockylinux.org/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.rockylinux.org/"
ROCKY_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="Rocky Linux"
ROCKY_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION="8"
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="Rocky Linux"
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION="8"

Step 2: Install the FlatPress CMS package by using the below command

[root@localhost Downloads]#  wget https://github.com/flatpressblog/flatpress/archive/1.1.zip
--2022-07-08 06:56:40--  https://github.com/flatpressblog/flatpress/archive/1.1.zip
Resolving github.com (github.com)... 13.234.210.38
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|13.234.210.38|:443... connected.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: https://codeload.github.com/flatpressblog/flatpress/zip/refs/tags/1.1 [following]
--2022-07-08 06:56:41--  https://codeload.github.com/flatpressblog/flatpress/zip/refs/tags/1.1
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: ‘1.1.zip’
1.1.zip                 [  <=>               ]   1021K  2.67MB/s    in 0.4s    
2022-07-08 06:56:41 (2.67 MB/s) - ‘1.1.zip’ saved [1045826]

Step 3: Unzip the Zip file by using the below command

[root@localhost Downloads]# unzip 1.1.zip 
Archive:  1.1.zip
0b3fdc7d4e583f8be840b7130a9e4320a3f85200
   creating: flatpress-1.1/
  inflating: flatpress-1.1/.gitignore  
  inflating: flatpress-1.1/CHANGELOG.md  

  inflating: flatpress-1.1/LICENSE.md  
  inflating: flatpress-1.1/README.md  
  inflating: flatpress-1.1/admin.php  
   creating: flatpress-1.1/admin/

  inflating: flatpress-1.1/admin/admin-inline.tpl  
   creating: flatpress-1.1/admin/imgs/
 extracting: flatpress-1.1/admin/imgs/config.png  
 extracting: flatpress-1.1/admin/imgs/entries.png  
 extracting: flatpress-1.1/admin/imgs/maintain.png  
 extracting: flatpress-1.1/admin/imgs/newentry.png  
  inflating: flatpress-1.1/admin/imgs/plugins.png  
 extracting: flatpress-1.1/admin/imgs/widgets.png  
   creating: flatpress-1.1/admin/includes/
  inflating: flatpress-1.1/admin/includes/panels.prototypes.php  
  inflating: flatpress-1.1/admin/index.php

Step 4: Move the file to apache root directory by using the below command

[root@localhost Downloads]# mv flatpress-1.1/ /var/www/flatpress

[root@localhost www]# chown -R apache:apache  /var/www/flatpress/

[root@localhost www]# chmod -R 775 /var/www/flatpress/

[root@localhost ~]# vim  /etc/httpd/conf.d 
<virtualhost *:80>

servername linuxhelp1.com
documentroot /var/www/flatpress
<directory /var/www/flatpress
allowoverride all
allow from all
</directory>
</virtualhost>

[root@localhost ~]# vim /etc/hosts
192.168.6.122 linuxhelp1.com

[root@localhost ~]# systemctl restart httpd