How to install October cms on linuxmint-18.03

To install October cms on linuxmint-18.03

October is a free and open source content management system (CMS) based on the PHP programming language and Laravel web application framework.

Pre-requirements

Install LAMP (Apache, php7.0, mariadb-server)
In MariaDB (create database, user and give privileges to the user)

FOR PHP INSTALLATION

apt-get install python-software-properties
add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
apt-get update
apt-get install php7.0-mysql php7.0-curl php7.0-json php7.0-cgi php7.0 libapache2-mod-php7.0 php7.0-mcrypt php7.0-xmlrpc php7.0-gd php7.0-mbstring php7.0  php7.0-common  php7.0-xmlrpc php7.0-soap  php7.0-xml php7.0-intl
 php7.0-cli  php7.0-ldap php7.0-zip php7.0-readline php7.0-imap php7.0-tidy php7.0-recode php7.0-sq php7.0-intl

Download October cms package using wget command

linuxhelp ~ # wget http://octobercms.com/download -O octobercms.zip
--2018-05-21 14:12:28--  http://octobercms.com/download
Resolving octobercms.com (octobercms.com)... 104.24.112.12, 104.24.113.12, 2400:cb00:2048:1::6818:710c, ...
Connecting to octobercms.com (octobercms.com)|104.24.112.12|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: https://github.com/octobercms/install/archive/master.zip [following]
--2018-05-21 14:12:29--  https://github.com/octobercms/install/archive/master.zip
Resolving github.com (github.com)... 192.30.253.113, 192.30.253.112
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|192.30.253.113|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: https://codeload.github.com/octobercms/install/zip/master [following]
--2018-05-21 14:12:31--  https://codeload.github.com/octobercms/install/zip/master
Resolving codeload.github.com (codeload.github.com)... 192.30.253.121, 192.30.253.120
Connecting to codeload.github.com (codeload.github.com)|192.30.253.121|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 141847 (139K) [application/zip]
Saving to: ‘ octobercms.zip’ 

octobercms.zip           100%[=================================> ] 138.52K   158KB/s    in 0.9s    

2018-05-21 14:12:33 (158 KB/s) - ‘ octobercms.zip’  saved [141847/141847]

Extract the package

linuxhelp ~ # unzip octobercms.zip 
Archive:  octobercms.zip
70e36944290129d4bf3ae710569c16156e4d2f2c
   creating: install-master/
 extracting: install-master/.gitignore  
  inflating: install-master/README.md  
  inflating: install-master/install.php  
   creating: install-master/install_files/
   creating: install-master/install_files/css/
  inflating: install-master/install_files/css/animations.css  
  inflating: install-master/install_files/css/controls.css  
.
.
.
   creating: install-master/install_files/partials/themes/
  inflating: install-master/install_files/partials/themes/theme.htm  
  inflating: install-master/install_files/partials/title.htm  
   creating: install-master/install_files/php/
  inflating: install-master/install_files/php/Installer.php  
  inflating: install-master/install_files/php/InstallerException.php  
  inflating: install-master/install_files/php/InstallerRewrite.php  
  inflating: install-master/install_files/php/boot.php  

Rename the extracted file

linuxhelp ~ # ls
install-master  octobercms.zip
linuxhelp ~ # mv install-master/ october

Move the file to HTML location

linuxhelp ~ # mv october /var/www/html/

Switch to the directory

linuxhelp ~ # cd /var/www/html/
linuxhelp html # ls
index.html  october

change ownership and permission of the October directory

linuxhelp html # chown -R www-data:www-data october/
linuxhelp html # chmod -R 775 october/

Create the virtualhost for October cms

linuxhelp html # cd /etc/apache2/sites-available/
linuxhelp sites-available # vim october.conf
< VirtualHost *:80> 
ServerName www.linuxhelp1.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/october/
< Directory /var/www/html/october/> 
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
< /Directory> 
< /VirtualHost> 

Enable the october.conf file

linuxhelp sites-available # a2ensite october.conf
Enabling site october.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run
service apache2 reload

Make an entry to the host file

linuxhelp sites-available # vim /etc/hosts
< give your ip>    < give your dom  ain name> 

To restart the apache:

linuxhelp sites-available # systemctl restart apache2.service

Open a browser and type http://local IP (or) domain name

Verify the system check and continue.

Accept the License agreement

Configure the database settings

Configure the admin user account setup

Choose where do you want to setup your site

Choose the theme and install

You can verify the Progress of the installation as shown below.

After the successful installation, the following page will appear

After the successful login, you will see the admin dashboard of October CMS

with this, the method to install October cms on linuxmint-18.03 comes to an end.