How to install Xoops 2.5.10 on Ubuntu 18.04

To install Xoops 2.5.10 on Ubuntu 18.04

XOOPS is a popular and easy to use CMS written in PHP. It uses a modular architecture and it is an ideal tool for developing small to large dynamic community websites, weblogs etc. It is an acronym of extensible Object Oriented Portal System. It contains modules that can be installed or uninstalled within the XOOPS administration system, contains relational databases and a messaging system within the users.

Prerequisites

To 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

Download a Xoops CMS package using this following URL

root@linuxhelp1:~# wget https://github.com/XOOPS/XoopsCore25/archive/master.zip
--2018-05-28 17:33:10--  https://github.com/XOOPS/XoopsCore25/archive/master.zip
Resolving github.com (github.com)... 192.30.253.112, 192.30.253.113
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|192.30.253.112|:443... connected.
.
.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 12203855 (12M) [application/zip]
Saving to: ‘ master.zip’ 

master.zip                       100%[=========================================================> ]  11.64M   474KB/s    in 16s     

2018-05-28 17:33:29 (737 KB/s) - ‘ master.zip’  saved [12203855/12203855]

The downloaded package is a zip file, so we need to unzip the file now

root@linuxhelp1:~# unzip master.zip 
Archive:  master.zip
c6c5455ca23edfd0d79bafa09142696d1a0eb8fc
   creating: XoopsCore25-master/
  inflating: XoopsCore25-master/CONTRIBUTING.md  
  inflating: XoopsCore25-master/LICENSE  
  inflating: XoopsCore25-master/README.md  
.
.
   creating: XoopsCore25-master/upgrade/upd-2.5.8-to-2.5.9/
  inflating: XoopsCore25-master/upgrade/upd-2.5.8-to-2.5.9/index.php  
   creating: XoopsCore25-master/upgrade/upd-2.5.9-to-2.5.10/
  inflating: XoopsCore25-master/upgrade/upd-2.5.9-to-2.5.10/index.php  
  inflating: XoopsCore25-master/upgrade/upgrade_tpl.php  
finishing deferred symbolic links:
  XoopsCore25-master/htdocs/class/libraries/vendor/bin/reloadpsl ->  ../geekwright/regdom/bin/reloadpsl

Move the extracted file into the following path

root@linuxhelp1:~# mv XoopsCore25-master /var/www/

Switch to the following directory

root@linuxhelp1:~# cd /var/www/

Change the ownership and permission of the file

root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# chown -R www-data.www-data XoopsCore25-master
root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# chmod -R 775 XoopsCore25-master

Create a new virtual host configuration to accessing thforXCart CMS application

root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/xoops.conf
< VirtualHost *:80> 
ServerName www.linuxhelp1.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/xoops-2.5.10/htdocs/

< Directory /var/www/xoops-2.5.10/htdocs/> 
AllowOverride All
allow from all
< /Directory> 

< /VirtualHost> 

enable the site access

root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# a2ensite xoops.conf
Enabling site xoops.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
systemctl reload apache2

Disable the default access

root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# a2dissite 000-default.conf
Site 000-default disabled.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
systemctl reload apache2

root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# a2enmod rewrite
Enabling module rewrite.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
systemctl restart apache2

root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# mv XoopsCore25-master xoops-2.5.10

root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# systemctl restart apache2