How to Install Monstra CMS on Ubuntu 20.4.1

To Install Monstra CMS on UBUNTU 20.4.1

introduction:

Monstra CMS is an open-source, modern, and lightweight CMS application that is easy to install, upgrade within a few steps. It contains various APIs for plugins, themes, and core development. This tutorial covers the installation of Monstra CMS on Ubuntu 20.4.1.

Installation Process:

Run lsb_release command to check the installed version of OS as follows.

root@linuxhelp:~# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS
Release:	20.04
Codename:	focal

Install Apache:

root@linuxhelp:~# apt install apache2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  apache2-bin apache2-data apache2-utils libapr1 libaprutil1 libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3 libaprutil1-ldap liblua5.2-0
Suggested packages:
  apache2-doc apache2-suexec-pristine | apache2-suexec-custom
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  apache2 apache2-bin apache2-data apache2-utils libapr1 libaprutil1 libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3 libaprutil1-ldap liblua5.2-0
0 upgraded, 9 newly installed, 0 to remove and 197 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,819 kB of archives.
After this operation, 7,935 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 libapr1 amd64 1.6.5-1ubuntu1 [91.4 kB]
Get:2 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 libaprutil1 amd64 1.6.1-4ubuntu2 [84.7 kB]
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Once completed start Apache service by using the below command

root@linuxhelp:~# systemctl start apache2
Check the Apache status by using the below command
root@linuxhelp:~# systemctl status apache2
● apache2.service - The Apache HTTP Server
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/apache2.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Sat 2020-11-21 19:40:17 IST; 1min 6s ago
       Docs: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/
   Main PID: 2813 (apache2)
      Tasks: 55 (limit: 2285)
     Memory: 5.4M
     CGroup: /system.slice/apache2.service
             ├─2813 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
             ├─2815 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
             └─2816 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start

Nov 21 19:40:17 linuxhelp systemd[1]: Starting The Apache HTTP Server...
Nov 21 19:40:17 linuxhelp apachectl[2812]: AH00558: apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified doma>
Nov 21 19:40:17 linuxhelp systemd[1]: Started The Apache HTTP Server.

Install PHP modules by using the below commands

root@linuxhelp:~# apt install php php-xml php-mysql php-mbstring php-zip php-soap php-curl php-gd php-ldap php-imap php-common
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libapache2-mod-php7.4 libc-client2007e libonig5 libzip5 mlock php7.4 php7.4-cli php7.4-common php7.4-curl php7.4-gd
  php7.4-imap php7.4-json php7.4-ldap php7.4-mbstring php7.4-mysql php7.4-opcache php7.4-readline php7.4-soap php7.4-xml
  php7.4-zip
Suggested packages:
  php-pear uw-mailutils

root@linuxhelp:~# wget https://github.com/monstra-cms/monstra/archive/dev.zip
--2020-11-21 19:51:47--  https://github.com/monstra-cms/monstra/archive/dev.zip
Resolving github.com (github.com)... 13.234.210.38
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|13.234.210.38|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: https://codeload.github.com/monstra-cms/monstra/zip/dev [following]
--2020-11-21 19:51:48--  https://codeload.github.com/monstra-cms/monstra/zip/dev
Resolving codeload.github.com (codeload.github.com)... 13.233.43.20
Connecting to codeload.github.com (codeload.github.com)|13.233.43.20|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [application/zip]
Saving to: ‘dev.zip’
dev.zip                            [       <=>                                           ]   1.63M  1.09MB/s    in 1.5s    
2020-11-21 19:51:50 (1.09 MB/s) - ‘dev.zip’ saved [1706085]

root@linuxhelp:~# unzip dev.zip 
Archive:  dev.zip
1ff51860eaba83e8ab91d5deb1d6b157e0847455
   creating: monstra-dev/
  inflating: monstra-dev/.gitignore  
  inflating: monstra-dev/.htaccess   
  inflating: monstra-dev/CHANGELOG.md  
  inflating: monstra-dev/LICENSE.md  
  inflating: monstra-dev/README.md   
   creating: monstra-dev/admin/
  inflating: monstra-dev/admin/index.php  
   creating: monstra-dev/admin/themes/
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root@linuxhelp:~# mv monstra-dev/ /var/www/monstra

root@linuxhelp:~# chown -R www-data.www-data /var/www/monstra
root@linuxhelp:~# chmod -R 755 /var/www/monstra

root@linuxhelp:~# vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/monstra.conf

root@linuxhelp:~# a2dissite 000-default.conf
Site 000-default disabled.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
  systemctl reload apache2

root@linuxhelp:~# a2ensite monstra.conf
Enabling site monstra.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
 systemctl reload apache2

root@linuxhelp:~# a2enmod rewrite
Enabling module rewrite.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
  systemctl restart apache2

root@linuxhelp:~# systemctl restart apache2