How to install Dotclear in CentOS

To install Dotclear

Before installing Dotclear, install LAMP server. Then install the required php extensions as given below.

[root@linuxhelp Desktop]# yum install php-xml php-mbstring php-gd -y 
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit, security
Setting up Install Process
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
&hellip 
&hellip 
Installed:
  php-gd.x86_64 0:5.3.3-48.el6_8                     php-mbstring.x86_64 0:5.3.3-48.el6_8                     php-xml.x86_64 0:5.3.3-48.el6_8                    
Dependency Installed:
  libXpm.x86_64 0:3.5.10-2.el6                                                                                                                                     
Complete!

Now run the below command to download the dotclear package.

[root@linuxhelp Desktop]# wget http://download.dotclear.org/latest.zip 
--2016-10-26 04:50:38--  http://download.dotclear.org/latest.zip
Resolving download.dotclear.org... 88.191.250.71
Connecting to download.dotclear.org|88.191.250.71|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 303 See Other
Location: http://download.dotclear.org/latest/dotclear-2.10.2.zip [following]
--2016-10-26 04:50:38--  http://download.dotclear.org/latest/dotclear-2.10.2.zip
Reusing existing connection to download.dotclear.org:80.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 3566966 (3.4M) [application/zip]
Saving to: “ latest.zip” 
100%[=========================================================================================================================> ] 3,566,966    658K/s   in 5.8s    
2016-10-26 04:50:44 (597 KB/s) - “ latest.zip”  saved [3566966/3566966]

Extract the downloaded package to /var/www/html/ directory

[root@linuxhelp Desktop]# unzip latest.zip -d /var/www/html/
Archive:  latest.zip
   creating: /var/www/html/dotclear/
   creating: /var/www/html/dotclear/db/
 extracting: /var/www/html/dotclear/db/.htaccess  
   creating: /var/www/html/dotclear/inc/
   creating: /var/www/html/dotclear/inc/js/
..
&hellip 
  inflating: /var/www/html/dotclear/plugins/simpleMenu/index.php  
  inflating: /var/www/html/dotclear/plugins/simpleMenu/simplemenu.js  
  inflating: /var/www/html/dotclear/CREDITS  
  inflating: /var/www/html/dotclear/CONTRIBUTING.md  

Here you need to change the ownership for the Dotclear directory.

[root@linuxhelp Desktop]# chown -R apache: /var/www/html/dotclear/ 

To create database for Dotclear

[root@linuxhelp Desktop]# mysql -u root &ndash p 
Enter password: 
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with   or g.
Your MySQL connection id is 11
Server version: 5.1.73 Source distribution
Copyright (c) 2000, 2013, 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 dotcleardb 
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)
mysql>  GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON dotcleardb.* TO ' dotclearuser' @' localhost'  IDENTIFIED BY ' password'  WITH GRANT OPTION 
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
mysql>  FLUSH PRIVILEGES 
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
mysql>  exit
Bye