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

Change to apache directory:

root@linuxhelp:~# cd /var/www

Create a directory for Quick:

root@linuxhelp:/var/www#  mkdir quick

Change the path to quick directory:

root@linuxhelp:/var/www# cd quick

Download the Quick file by using wget command

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]

List the directory

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'

Extract the zip file by using below command:

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  

Give the Ownership and permissions to quick directory

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

List the directory:

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/

Give the permissions for database directory:

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

change to database directory:

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

List the directory:

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*

Open the configuration file:

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

Create a virtualhost for quick CMs:

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

Disable default access

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

Enable site access

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

Enable rewrite module

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

Once it is completed, Restart the Apache Web Server by running the following command

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

Once completed goto browser type url

Then, it will open home page for quick CMS

Open new tab and type url for admin page

Give the login credentials

Then it will open the administration panel for quick CMS

with this installation of quick cms comes to end on ubuntu.