How to install Concrete5 CMS in Ubuntu

To install Concrete5 CMS in Ubuntu

Concrete5 is an open source content management system. It is used for creating and deploying website in a easier way and the user does not require any technical skills to deploy a website. It is programmed in PHP language. Installation of Concrete5 CMS in Ubuntu is explained in this article.

Features

• Easy Text editor.
• You can add pages anywhere,preview it before publishing and update anywhere
• Supports bulk upload and manipulate images.
• Editable toolbar with the customized the site.

To install Concrete5 CMS

Before installing Concrete5, install LAMP server.

To know how to install LAMP visit,
https://www.linuxhelp.com/how-to-install-lamp-setup-in-ubuntu-15-10/

Next install the dependency packages by using the following command.

root@linuxhelp:/home/user1/Desktop# apt-get install unzip php5-gd 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
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php5_invoke: Enable module gd for cli SAPI
php5_invoke: Enable module gd for apache2 SAPI
Setting up unzip (6.0-13ubuntu3.2) ...
Processing triggers for libapache2-mod-php5 (5.6.4+dfsg-4ubuntu6.4) ...

You can download the concrete5 cms package from its official link,
https://www.concrete5.org/

Move the downloaded package to /var/www/html location.

root@linuxhelp:/home/user1/Downloads# mv concrete5.7.5.8.zip /var/www/html/ 
root@linuxhelp:/home/user1/Downloads# cd /var/www/html/

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/html# unzip concrete5.7.5.8.zip 
Archive:  concrete5.7.5.8.zip
   creating: concrete5.7.5.8/
   creating: concrete5.7.5.8/application/
   creating: concrete5.7.5.8/application/attributes/
   creating: concrete5.7.5.8/application/authentication/
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inflating: concrete5.7.5.8/LICENSE.TXT  
   creating: concrete5.7.5.8/packages/
  inflating: concrete5.7.5.8/robots.txt  
   creating: concrete5.7.5.8/updates/
rename the extracted directory to concrete5

Now invoke the mv command to rename the extracted package.

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/html# mv concrete5.7.5.8 concrete5
root@linuxhelp:/var/www/html# ls -l 
total 41796
drwxr-xr-x 3 root  root      4096 Oct 12 12:16 ./
drwxr-xr-x 3 root  root      4096 Oct 12 11:49 ../
drwxr-xr-x 6 root  root      4096 May 23 07:50 concrete5/
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user1 user1 42770728 Oct 12 12:14 concrete5.7.5.8.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 root  root     11321 Oct 12 11:49 index.html
root@linuxhelp:/var/www/html# cd concrete5 

Enable the rewrite modules.

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/html/concrete5# a2enmod rewrite 
Enabling module rewrite.

To activate the new configuration, restart your apache services.

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/html/concrete5# service apache2 restart 

Once the restart is finished, open and edit the php.ini file.

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/html/concrete5# nano /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini 
cgi.fix_pathinfo=1
Enable this line by removing the semi colon

Now restart the Apache web server.

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/html/concrete5# service apache2 restart 

Then configure MySql for Concrete5 CMS

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/html/concrete5# mysql -u root -p 
Enter password: 
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with   or g.
Your MySQL connection id is 10
Server version: 5.6.28-0ubuntu0.15.04.1 (Ubuntu)
Copyright (c) 2000, 2015, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its
affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective
owners.
Type ' help '  or ' h'  for help. Type ' c'  to clear the current input statement.
mysql>  CREATE DATABASE concrete5 
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.06 sec)
mysql>  GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON concrete5.* TO ' concr5' @' localhost'  IDENTIFIED BY ' password'  
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.14 sec)
mysql>  FLUSH PRIVILEGES 
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.03 sec)
mysql>  exit
Bye

After adding the MySQL, change the ownership for concrete5 directory.

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/html/concrete5# chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/concrete5 

Open the web browser and navigate to http://< IP_address> /concrete5
Choose your preferred language

Verify the test environment ans click Continue to installation.

Enter the site and database information.

Installation progress started.