To Install FlatPress CMS on Oracle Linux 8.5

Introduction:

FlatPress is an open source, multi-lingual extensible blogging engine which does not require a DBMS to work on. It stores all of its content on text files. It also contains features like support of various plugins, widget support, and customizable themes FlatPress is a lightweight, easy-to-set-up blogging engine. Plain and simple, just PHP. No database needed.

Pre-Requisites

-Apache

-PHP > 5.3.1

Installation Steps:

Step 1: Check the Oracle Linux Version by using the below command

[root@linuxhelp linuxhelp]# cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Oracle Linux Server"
VERSION="8.5"

Step 2: To proceed with the installation procedure, download the FlatPress CMS package from its official site using wget command followed by the download link.

[root@linuxhelp linuxhelp]# wget https://github.com/flatpressblog/flatpress/archive/1.2.1.zip
--2022-07-11 03:04:37--  https://github.com/flatpressblog/flatpress/archive/1.2.1.zip
Resolving github.com (github.com)... 13.234.210.38
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|13.234.210.38|:443... connected.
Saving to: ‘1.2.1.zip’

1.2.1.zip                   [  <=>                          ]   1.24M  5.21MB/s    in 0.2s    

2022-07-11 03:04:38 (5.21 MB/s) - ‘1.2.1.zip’ saved [1301347]

Step 3: Unzip the Downloaded Package by using the below command

[root@linuxhelp linuxhelp]# unzip 1.2.1.zip 
Archive:  1.2.1.zip
14d503dfa99b190054b525497ea937aeb9b17f0e
inflating: flatpress-1.2.1/setup/tpls/step3.tpl.php  
  inflating: flatpress-1.2.1/sitemap.php  
  inflating: flatpress-1.2.1/static.php  

[root@linuxhelp linuxhelp]# mv flatpress-1.2.1 /var/www/flatpress

[root@linuxhelp linuxhelp]# chmod -R 775 /var/www/flatpress/

 [root@linuxhelp linuxhelp]# chown -R apache:apache /var/www/flatpress/

[root@linuxhelp linuxhelp]# vim /etc/httpd/conf.d/flatpress.conf
<virtualhost *:80>
servername www.linuxhelp1.com
Documentroot /var/www/flatpress/
</virtualhost>

[root@linuxhelp linuxhelp]# systemctl restart httpd