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How to install Pagekit CMS on Ubuntu 18.04

To install Pagekit CMS on Ubuntu 18.04
Pagekit is a free and open source content management system. It is written in PHP and uses MySQL or SQLite database for storing the data. Pagekit provides easy to use drag and drop control panel to manage the pages, menus, and widgets. It has a configurable dashboard which shows all the statistics related to your site at one place. It also provides an inbuilt blog feature so that you can share the blog posts right away. In this tutorial, we will cover the installation of page kit on Ubuntu 18.04.

Prerequisites
Install LAMP(Apache, MariaDB, php7)
In MariaDB (create database and user and give privileges to that user )

Php installation with required following modules

add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php 
apt-get update 
apt-get install php7.0 php7.0-mysql php7.0-curl php7.0-json php7.0-cgi libapache2-mod-php7.0 php7.0-mcrypt php7.0-xmlrpc php7.0-gd php7.0-mbstring php7.0  php7.0-common
php7.0-xmlrpc php7.0-soap  php7.0-xml php7.0-intl  php7.0-cli  php7.0-ldap php7.0-zip php7.0-readline php7.0-imap php7.0-tidy php7.0-recode php7.0-sq php7.0-intl

Installation

Download a Pagekit CMS package using the following URL.

root@linuxhelp1:~# wget http://pagekit.com/api/download/latest -O pagekit.zip
--2018-08-16 04:17:07--  http://pagekit.com/api/download/latest
Resolving pagekit.com (pagekit.com)... 213.160.72.26, 2a00:17d8:100::191
Connecting to pagekit.com (pagekit.com)|213.160.72.26|:80... connected.
.
.
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Connecting to github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com (github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com)|52.216.16.232|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 8309263 (7.9M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘;pagekit.zip’;

pagekit.zip            100%[============================>]   7.92M  1.13MB/s    in 8.4s    

2018-08-16 04:17:20 (963 KB/s) - ‘;pagekit.zip’; saved [8309263/8309263]

After Downloading extract the downloaded package 

root@linuxhelp1:~# unzip pagekit.zip 
Archive:  pagekit.zip
  inflating: app/assets/codemirror/codemirror.css  
  inflating: app/assets/codemirror/codemirror.js  
  inflating: app/assets/codemirror/hint.css  
  inflating: app/assets/jquery/bower.json  
  inflating: app/assets/jquery/dist/jquery.min.js  
  inflating: app/assets/jquery/MIT-LICENSE.txt  
  .
  .
  .
  creating: tmp/
   creating: tmp/cache/
   creating: tmp/temp/
   creating: tmp/logs/
   creating: tmp/sessions/
   creating: tmp/packages/

Change ownership and permission of the as page kit CMS follows 

root@linuxhelp1:~# ls
pagekit  pagekit.zip
root@linuxhelp1:~# chown -R www-data.www-data pagekit
root@linuxhelp1:~# chmod -R 775 pagekit

Move the extracted file into the HTML directory

root@linuxhelp1:~# mv pagekit /var/www/html/

Create a new virtual host configuration for accessing the page kit CMS

root@linuxhelp1:~# cd /etc/apache2/sites-available/
root@linuxhelp1:/etc/apache2/sites-available# vim page.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.linuxhelp1.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/pagekit/
<Directory /var/www/html/pagekit/>
AllowOverride All
allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Enable site access

root@linuxhelp1:/etc/apache2/sites-available# a2ensite page.conf
Enabling site page.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
  systemctl reload apache2

Entry to the host file.

root@linuxhelp1:/etc/apache2/sites-available# vim /etc/hosts
<Give your ip>   <Give your domain name>

Restart the apache service to make the changes effect

root@linuxhelp1:/etc/apache2/sites-available# systemctl restart apache2

Now you can proceed the further installation and configuration from the browser by navigating to the following URL: http://<ipaddress or domain name /pagekit

Here show on the page kit installation so here, click on the aero mark.

Select your language and click ‘;next’;.

Configure the Database setup as follows

Configure the Site information and Admin user setup as follow

Login page of page kit cms appears now.

After the configuration, you will see the Admin dashboard of page kit CMS as shown below

With this, the method to install page kit CMS on Ubuntu 18.04 comes to an end.

Tag : Content Management System (CMS) Ubuntu
FAQ
Q
how to setup the manual installation of pagekit in ubuntu?
A
we will review the manual installation process of Pagekit. We will provide you with the steps necessary to complete the installation on your FastComet account and mention any specifics regarding the process.
Q
what are all the requirements of pagekit?
A
Apache 2.2+ or NGINX.
MySQL Server 5.1+ or SQLite 3.
PHP Version 5.5.9+.
Required PHP extensions: JSON, Session, ctype, Tokenizer, SimpleXML, DOM, mbstring, PCRE 8.0+, ZIP and PDO with MySQL or SQLite drivers.
Optional PHP extensions: cURL, iconv and XML Parser, as well as APC or XCache for caching.
Q
where to download the package of pagekit in ubuntu?
A
use the following command to download the package of pagekt
# wget http://pagekit.com/api/download/latest -O pagekit.zip
Q
what are all the Prerequisites needed to instal pagekit in ubuntu?
A
Prerequisites are,
Install LAMP(Apache, MariaDB, php7)
In MariaDB (create database and user and give privileges to that user )
Q
why we need to pagekit in ubuntu?
A
Pagekit is a free and open source content management system. It is written in PHP and uses MySQL or SQLite database for storing the data. Pagekit provides easy to use drag and drop control panel to manage the pages, menus, and widgets. It has a configurable dashboard which shows all the statistics related to your site at one place.