How to Install Navigate CMS on CentOS 7.6

Installation of Navigate CMS On Centos 7.6

Navigate CMS is an free and opensource powerful content management system.its written in php and uses mysql database. Navigate cms is allows to create and change website content very easily, anytime and anywhere.This Tutuorial covers the installation of Navigate Cms On Centos 7.6

Requirements for Navigate Cms:

Apache

Mariadb

Php and its modules

php php-xml php-mysql php-mbstring php-zip php-soap php-curl php-gd php-ldap php-imap php-common php-mcrypt

Installation procedure

Check the Centos version by using the following command

[root@linuxhelp ~]# rpm -q centos-release
centos-release-7-6.1810.2.el7.centos.x86_64

Configure the MySQL database. Log into MySQL as a root user and make the necessary settings.

[root@linuxhelp ~]# mysql -u root -p
Enter password: 
Welcome to the MariaDB monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MariaDB connection id is 10
Server version: 5.5.60-MariaDB MariaDB Server
Copyright (c) 2000, 2018, Oracle, MariaDB Corporation Ab and others.
Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.
MariaDB [(none)]> create database navigate;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.07 sec)
MariaDB [(none)]> create user 'navigateuser'@localhost identified by 'Linuxc#4';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.10 sec)
MariaDB [(none)]> grant all privileges on navigate.* to 'navigateuser'@localhost;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
MariaDB [(none)]> flush privileges;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
MariaDB [(none)]> Ctrl-C -- exit!
Aborted

Once the database configuration is done, download the Navigate cms Installation package by using the wget command.

[root@linuxhelp ~]# wget https://netix.dl.sourceforge.net/project/navigatecms/releases/navigate-2.8r1302.zip
--2019-06-13 04:16:31--  https://netix.dl.sourceforge.net/project/navigatecms/releases/navigate-2.8r1302.zip
Resolving netix.dl.sourceforge.net (netix.dl.sourceforge.net)... 87.121.121.2
Connecting to netix.dl.sourceforge.net (netix.dl.sourceforge.net)|87.121.121.2|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/navigatecms/releases/navigate-2.8r1302.zip?download&failedmirror=netix.dl.sourceforge.net [following]
--2019-06-13 04:16:32--  https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/navigatecms/releases/navigate-2.8r1302.zip?download&failedmirror=netix.dl.sourceforge.net
Resolving downloads.sourceforge.net (downloads.sourceforge.net)... 216.105.38.13
Connecting to downloads.sourceforge.net (downloads.sourceforge.net)|216.105.38.13|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: https://excellmedia.dl.sourceforge.net/project/navigatecms/releases/navigate-2.8r1302.zip [following]
--2019-06-13 04:16:33--  https://excellmedia.dl.sourceforge.net/project/navigatecms/releases/navigate-2.8r1302.zip
Resolving excellmedia.dl.sourceforge.net (excellmedia.dl.sourceforge.net)... 202.153.32.19
Connecting to excellmedia.dl.sourceforge.net (excellmedia.dl.sourceforge.net)|202.153.32.19|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 14619708 (14M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘navigate-2.8r1302.zip’

100%[======================================================================>] 14,619,708  1.12MB/s   in 13s    

2019-06-13 04:16:46 (1.11 MB/s) - ‘navigate-2.8r1302.zip’ saved [14619708/14619708]

Once the download is completed extract the downloaded package using unzip command.

[root@linuxhelp ~]# unzip navigate-2.8r1302.zip -d navigate
Archive:  navigate-2.8r1302.zip
  inflating: navigate/setup.php      
  inflating: navigate/navigate.sql   
  inflating: navigate/package.zip    

Enter into the navigate directory

[root@linuxhelp ~]# cd navigate

List out the file

[root@linuxhelp navigate]# ll
total 15192
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   304075 Apr  2  2018 navigate.sql
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15156916 Apr  2  2018 package.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    86058 Apr  2  2018 setup.php

Extract the package.zip file by using the following command

[root@linuxhelp navigate]# unzip package.zip
Archive:  package.zip
  inflating: LICENSE.txt             
  inflating: README                  
  inflating: crossdomain.xml         
  inflating: favicon.ico             
  inflating: index.php               
  inflating: login.php               
  inflating: navigate.php            
  inflating: navigate_download.php   
.
.
.
 inflating: private/oembed/.htaccess  
  inflating: web/.htaccess.example   
  inflating: cache/empty.txt         
  inflating: updates/empty.txt       
  inflating: themes/theme_kit.zip    

Move the Navigate cms directory to apache root directory.

[root@linuxhelp ~]# mv navigate /var/www/

Set the ownership and permission for Navigate cms by using the following command.

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

[root@linuxhelp ~]# chmod -R 755 /var/www/navigate

Configure the virtualhost for accessing the Navigate cms.

[root@linuxhelp ~]# vim /etc/httpd/conf.d/navigate.conf
<Virtualhost *:80>
        Servername www.linuxhelp1.com
        Documentroot /var/www/navigate
<directory /var/www/navigate>
allowoverride all
allow from all
</directory>
</Virtualhost>

Restart the apache service by using the following command.

[root@linuxhelp ~]# systemctl restart httpd

Switch to your browser and enter the domain name. Check the system requirements It will show show decompress Configure the admin credentials Configure the database details show database import The installation is completed Enter your admin credentials for login the navigate cms This is the dashboard of navigate cms With this the method of install the navigate cms on centos comes to end.