How to Install Dotclear in Debian

Installation of Dotclear

Before installing the Dotclear, you need to install LAMP server with the following link,

https://www.linuxhelp.com/how-to-install-lamp-by-using-tasksel-tool-in-ubuntu/

First download the Dotclear installation package with the following command.

root@linuxhelp:~# cd /opt/
root@linuxhelp:/opt# wget  http://download.dotclear.org/latest.tar.gz
--2016-11-18 15:22:26--  http://download.dotclear.org/latest.tar.gz
Resolving download.dotclear.org (download.dotclear.org)... 88.191.250.71
Connecting to download.dotclear.org (download.dotclear.org)|88.191.250.71|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 303 See Other
Location: http://download.dotclear.org/latest/dotclear-2.10.4.tar.gz [following]
--2016-11-18 15:22:28--  http://download.dotclear.org/latest/dotclear-2.10.4.tar.gz
Reusing existing connection to download.dotclear.org:80.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 2780353 (2.7M) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: ‘ latest.tar.gz’ 
latest.tar.gz                 100%[================================================> ]   2.65M  60.6KB/s   in 17s    

Once the installation package is downloaded, extract it.

root@linuxhelp:/opt# tar -xvf latest.tar.gz
./dotclear/
./dotclear/db/
./dotclear/db/.htaccess
./dotclear/inc/
./dotclear/inc/js/
.
.
.
./dotclear/plugins/simpleMenu/_admin.php
./dotclear/plugins/simpleMenu/index.php
./dotclear/plugins/simpleMenu/simplemenu.js
./dotclear/CREDITS
./dotclear/CONTRIBUTING.md

Move the extracted file into the document root directory and set the ownership.

root@linuxhelp:/opt# mv /opt/dotclear/ /var/www/html/dotclear/
root@linuxhelp:/opt# chown www-data:www-data -R /var/www/html/dotclear/
root@linuxhelp:/opt# mv /opt/ /var/www/html/dotclear/

Now its time to create database for dotclear and assign the full permission to that users.

root@linuxhelp:/opt# mysql -u root -p
Enter password:
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with   or g.
Your MySQL connection id is 49
Server version: 5.5.53-0+deb8u1 (Debian)
Copyright (c) 2000, 2016, 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 (0.01 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

Then create a new virtual host directive in Apache.

root@linuxhelp:/opt# touch /etc/apache2/sites-available/dotclear.conf
root@linuxhelp:/opt# ln -s /etc/apache2/sites-available/dotclear.conf /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/dotclear.conf

Once the virtual host is created, enable the dotclear.conf configuration in Apache.

root@linuxhelp:/opt# a2ensite dotclear.conf

Edit the ' dotclear.conf' configuration file and add the following lines.

ServerAdmin admin@yourdomain.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/dotclear/
ServerName linuxhelp
ServerAlias www.yourdomain.com

Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All

ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/yourdomain.com-error_log
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/yourdomain.com-access_log common

Change the hostname in the ServerName option.

root@linuxhelp:/opt# systemctl restart apache2.service