How to install Cotonti CMS in Ubuntu 16.04

To install Cotonti CMS in Ubuntu 16.04

Cotonti is open source Content Management System and Content Management Framework built based on PHP and MySQL. It possesses both the flexibity of web development framework and the featureset of a content manager with more focus on security, speed and flexibility. It is simple to install Cotonti CMS and in this tutorial, you will learn about the method to install Cotonti CMS on Ubuntu 16.04

For installing Cotonti CMS, you need to have LAMP stack installed in your system. After installing the LAMP stack, you shall continue the Cotonti installation process.

Installing Cotonti

Make sure you create a database for your Cotonti application. Following the below mentioned commands.

root@example:/home/user1# mysql -u root -p
Enter password:
Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with   or g.
Your MySQL connection id is 4
Server version: 5.7.19-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 (Ubuntu)
Copyright (c) 2000, 2017, 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 cotonti 
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)
mysql>  GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON cotonti.* TO ' cotontiuser' @' localhost'  IDENTIFIED BY ' password'  
Query OK, 0 rows affected, 1 warning (0.00 sec)
mysql>  FLUSH PRIVILEGES 
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)
mysql>  exit
Bye

Once the database is created, you shall download the Cotonti package with the help of the following command.

root@example:/home/user1# wget https://github.com/Cotonti/Cotonti/archive/master.zip
--2017-11-11 06:34:25-- https://github.com/Cotonti/Cotonti/archive/master.zip
Resolving github.com (github.com)... 192.30.255.113, 192.30.255.112
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|192.30.255.113|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: https://codeload.github.com/Cotonti/Cotonti/zip/master [following]
--2017-11-11 06:34:26-- https://codeload.github.com/Cotonti/Cotonti/zip/master
Resolving codeload.github.com (codeload.github.com)... 192.30.255.120, 192.30.255.121
Connecting to codeload.github.com (codeload.github.com)|192.30.255.120|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [application/zip]
Saving to: ‘ master.zip’ 
master.zip [ < =>  ] 3.39M 466KB/s in 8.3s
2017-11-11 06:34:36 (418 KB/s) - ‘ master.zip’  saved [3555810]

After downloading the package, you should extract it. You can use the following command for the same purpose.

root@example:/home/user1# unzip master.zip
Archive: master.zip
9ac62ca287b41306103eb28c12a59a29fc5d07d4
creating: Cotonti-master/
inflating: Cotonti-master/.gitattributes
inflating: Cotonti-master/.gitignore
extracting: Cotonti-master/.htaccess
inflating: Cotonti-master/Install.txt
&hellip 
&hellip 
&hellip 
inflating: Cotonti-master/themes/symisun-03/users.profile.tpl
inflating: Cotonti-master/themes/symisun-03/users.register.tpl
inflating: Cotonti-master/themes/symisun-03/users.tpl
inflating: Cotonti-master/themes/symisun-03/warnings.tpl

Now, move the contents of Cotonti-master to /var/www/html/cotonti directory

root@example:/home/user1# mv Cotonti-master/ /var/www/html/cotonti

Next, change the ownership for the cotonti directory as follows.

root@example:/home/user1# chown www-data:www-data -R /var/www/html/cotonti/

After that follows an important step &ndash the configuration of the Apache VirtualHost for Cotonti CMS. So, create cotonti.conf in /etc/apache2/sites-available/ directory

root@example:/home/user1# touch /etc/apache2/sites-available/cotonti.conf

Next, create a soft link for cotonti.conf in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/ directory

root@example:/home/user1# ln -s /etc/apache2/sites-available/cotonti.conf /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/cotonti.conf

Once it is done, open the cotonti.conf file

root@example:/home/user1# nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/cotonti.conf

You can now add the following VirtualHost configuration to the file.

< VirtualHost *:80> 
ServerAdmin linuxhelpserver@gmail.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/cotonti/
ServerName example.linuxhelp1.com
ServerAlias www.example.linuxhelp1.com
< Directory /var/www/html/cotonti/> 
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
< /Directory> 
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/example-error_log
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/example-access_log common
< /VirtualHost> 

Save the file and exit.

root@example:/home/user1# service apache2 restart

root@example:/var/www/html/cotonti# rm -rf install.php
root@example:/var/www/html/cotonti# cd datas/
root@example:/var/www/html/cotonti/datas# chmod 644 config.php