How to install Habari on Centos 7
To install Habari on CentOS 7
Habari is a free and open source publishing platform written in PHP and also has support for MySQL, SQLite and PostgreSQL, which is essential for the database back-end and application framework with a modular, object-oriented Core. Its installation is pretty simple and this tutorial will show you through the step by step installation of Habari in CentOS 7
Installing Habari
For installing Habari, you need to have LAMP stack installed in your system, so ensure their presence in your system. You should also create a database for Habari in your system, so make use of the following command for the same purpose.
[root@server1 Desktop]# mysql -u root -p Enter password: Welcome to the MariaDB monitor. Commands end with or g. Your MariaDB connection id is 14 Server version: 5.5.52-MariaDB MariaDB Server Copyright (c) 2000, 2016, Oracle, MariaDB Corporation Ab and others. Type ' help ' or ' h' for help. Type ' c' to clear the current input statement. MariaDB [(none)]> CREATE DATABASE habari Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec) MariaDB [(none)]> CREATE USER ' habariuser' @' localhost' IDENTIFIED BY ' password' Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.05 sec) MariaDB [(none)]> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `habari`.* TO ' habariuser' @' localhost' Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.04 sec) MariaDB [(none)]> FLUSH PRIVILEGES Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) MariaDB [(none)]> exit Bye
Once done, download the Habari installation package via wget command.
[root@server1 Desktop]# wget http://habariproject.org/dist/habari-0.9.2.zip
--2017-08-18 02:47:12-- http://habariproject.org/dist/habari-0.9.2.zip
Resolving habariproject.org (habariproject.org)... 192.241.163.13
Connecting to habariproject.org (habariproject.org)|192.241.163.13|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 3041175 (2.9M) [application/zip]
Saving to: ‘ habari-0.9.2.zip’
100%[=========================================================================================================================================================================> ] 3,041,175 475KB/s in 8.2s
2017-08-18 02:47:21 (362 KB/s) - ‘ habari-0.9.2.zip’ saved [3041175/3041175]
After that, you need to create habari directory in /var/www/html/ and extract the downloaded package to it.
[root@server1 Desktop]# mkdir -p /var/www/html/habari
[root@server1 Desktop]# unzip habari-0.9.2.zip -d /var/www/html/habari/
Archive: habari-0.9.2.zip
inflating: /var/www/html/habari/README.md
inflating: /var/www/html/habari/LICENSE
&hellip .
&hellip .
&hellip .
extracting: /var/www/html/habari/system/themes/wazi/content.php
inflating: /var/www/html/habari/system/themes/wazi/404.php
inflating: /var/www/html/habari/system/themes/wazi/README
inflating: /var/www/html/habari/system/themes/wazi/header.php
inflating: /var/www/html/habari/system/themes/wazi/home.php
Now, you need to change the ownership for the habari directory as follows.
[root@server1 Desktop]# chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/habari/
The next step is to create a virtual host configuration file for that the following command can be of help to you.
[root@server1 Desktop]# vim /etc/httpd/conf.d/vhosts.conf
Use the command to make changes to the .conf file
IncludeOptional vhosts.d/*.conf
Create vhosts.d directory and create virtual host configuration file for habari by using the following commands.
[root@server1 Desktop]# mkdir /etc/httpd/vhosts.d/
[root@server1 Desktop]# vim /etc/httpd/vhosts.d/server1.linuxhelp.com.conf
Configure the file as follows.
< VirtualHost 192.168.7.201:80> DocumentRoot " /var/www/html/habari/" ServerName server1.linuxhelp.com ErrorLog " /var/log/httpd/yourdomain.com-error_log" CustomLog " /var/log/httpd/yourdomain.com-access_log" combined < Directory " /var/www/html/habari/" > DirectoryIndex index.html index.php Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride All Require all granted < /Directory> < /VirtualHost>
After the configuration, restart the Apache web server by making use of the following command.
[root@server1 Desktop]# systemctl restart httpd
Open the web browser now and navigate to http://192.168.7.201, the Habari installation page appears.
Back in the terminal, edit the .htaccess file by running the following command.
[root@server1 Desktop]# vim /var/www/html/habari/.htaccess
Add the following lines to the file.
### HABARI START
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/favicon.ico
#RewriteBase /
RewriteRule . index.php [PT]
RewriteRule ^(system/(classes|handlers|locale|schema|$)) index.php [PT]
### HABARI END
Database Configuration
Back to the browser. Enter the database information and click on Check Database Connection.
Then, you need to configure your site as you need.
After that, activate the required plugins by clicking on the appropriate check boxes.
Later, edit the config.php file in the box. Finally, click restart installer.
Use the command to open the .php file.
[root@server1 Desktop]# vim /var/www/html/habari/config.php
Add the following lines to the file.
< ?php if ( !defined( ' HABARI_PATH' ) ) { die( ' No direct access' ) }
Config::set( ' db_connection' , array(
' connection_string' => ' mysql:host=localhost dbname=habari' ,
' username' => ' habariuser' ,
' password' => ' password' ,
' prefix' => ' habari__'
))
// Config::set(' locale' , ' en-us' )
?>
In the login page, enter the credentials.
Once logged in, you' ll be taken to the dashboard.
With this, the installation of Habari on CentOS 7 is complete.
php_value upload_max_filesize you want to use, to your .htaccess file.