How to install PivotX CMS on Ubuntu 18.04

To install PivotX CMS on Ubuntu 18.04
PivotX is a free and open source blog software content management system. It’s written in PHP using either flat files or a database to store content. It uses the Smarty web template system. In this tutorial, we will cover the installation of pivotx 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 PivotX CMS package using the following command.

root@linuxhelp1:~# wget http://pivotx.net/files/pivotx\_latest.zip
--2018-08-16 03:44:23--  http://pivotx.net/files/pivotx\_latest.zip
Resolving pivotx.net (pivotx.net)... 104.28.1.56, 104.28.0.56, 2400:cb00:2048:1::681c:138, ...
Connecting to pivotx.net (pivotx.net)|104.28.1.56|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 3228558 (3.1M) \[application/zip\]
Saving to: ‘pivotx\_latest.zip’

pivotx\_latest.zip       100%\[=============================>\]   3.08M  11.1MB/s    in 0.3s    

2018-08-16 03:44:28 (11.1 MB/s) - ‘pivotx\_latest.zip’ saved \[3228558/3228558\]

After Downloading extract and rename the downloaded package 

root@linuxhelp1:~# unzip pivotx\_latest.zip -d pivotx
Archive:  pivotx\_latest.zip
  inflating: pivotx/LICENSE.txt      
  inflating: pivotx/README.txt       
  inflating: pivotx/example.htaccess  
  inflating: pivotx/example.web.config  
   creating: pivotx/images/
  inflating: pivotx/images/icon\_pivotx.jpg  
.
.
.
inflating: pivotx/pivotx/templates\_internal/window\_fileupload.tpl  
  inflating: pivotx/pivotx/templates\_internal/window\_insert\_download.tpl  
  inflating: pivotx/pivotx/templates\_internal/window\_insert\_image.tpl  
  inflating: pivotx/pivotx/templates\_internal/window\_insert\_popup.tpl  
  inflating: pivotx/pivotx/templates\_internal/window\_insert\_tag.tpl  
  inflating: pivotx/pivotx/templates\_internal/window\_upload.tpl  
 extracting: pivotx/robots.txt

Change ownership and permission of the as PivotX CMS follows 

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

Move the extracted file into the HTML directory

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

Create a new virtual host configuration for accessing the PivotX CMS

root@linuxhelp1:~# cd /etc/apache2/sites-available/
root@linuxhelp1:/etc/apache2/sites-available# vim pivotx.conf
 ServerName www.linuxhelp1.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/pivotx/
 AllowOverride All
allow from all 

Enable site access

root@linuxhelp1:/etc/apache2/sites-available# a2ensite pivotx.conf 
Enabling site pivotx.
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
  

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://pivotx

Configure the Admin user setup as follow

Login page of pivotx CMS appears now.

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

With this, the method to install pivotx cms on Ubuntu 18.04 comes to an end.