How to install craft CMS on Linux Mint 18.03

To install Craft CMS on Linux Mint18.3

Craft is a content management system (CMS) designed for publishers who want more control and more powerful performances from their CMS. It is a PHP based application build on Yii framework. In this tutorial, we cover the installation of Craft cms on Linux Mint18.3

Pre-requirements

• Install LAMP (Apache, php7.1, MariaDB-server)
• In MariaDB (create database, user and give privileges to the user
• For PHP installation

apt-get install php7.1 php7.1-pdo php7.1-common php7.1-mcrypt php7.1-mbstring php7.1-gd php7.1-curl php7.1-mysql php7.1-mcrypt

Installing Craft CMS

Let' s download the Craft CMS from the terminal using the following command.

linuxhelp ~ # wget https://download.craftcdn.com/craft/2.6/2.6.2993/Craft-2.6.2993.zip
--2018-04-21 16:46:42--  https://download.craftcdn.com/craft/2.6/2.6.2993/Craft-2.6.2993.zip
Resolving download.craftcdn.com (download.craftcdn.com)... 151.139.107.16
Connecting to download.craftcdn.com (download.craftcdn.com)|151.139.107.16|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 16915928 (16M) [application/zip]
Saving to: ‘ Craft-2.6.2993.zip’ 

Craft-2.6.2993.zip           100%[==============================================> ]  16.13M   780KB/s    in 30s     

2018-04-21 16:47:13 (555 KB/s) - ‘ Craft-2.6.2993.zip’  saved [16915928/16915928]

After downloading, extract and rename the directory by making use of the following command.

linuxhelp ~ # unzip Craft-2.6.2993.zip -d craft
Archive:  Craft-2.6.2993.zip
  inflating: craft/craft/app/widgets/RecentEntriesWidget.php  
  inflating: craft/craft/app/widgets/UpdatesWidget.php  
  inflating: craft/craft/app/widgets/QuickPostWidget.php  
  inflating: craft/craft/app/widgets/NewUsersWidget.php  
  inflating: craft/craft/app/widgets/IWidget.php  
  inflating: craft/craft/app/widgets/BaseWidget.php  
.
.
.
 extracting: craft/craft/plugins/.htaccess  
  inflating: craft/craft/plugins/web.config  
 extracting: craft/craft/.htaccess   
  inflating: craft/craft/web.config  
  inflating: craft/readme.txt        
  inflating: craft/public/robots.txt  
  inflating: craft/public/web.config  
  inflating: craft/public/htaccess   
  inflating: craft/public/index.php  

And then move the Craft CMS package to apache directory root.

linuxhelp ~ # ls
craft  Craft-2.6.2993.zip
linuxhelp ~ # mv craft/ /var/www/html/

Now navigate to /var/www/html directory.

linuxhelp ~ # cd /var/www/html/
linuxhelp html # cd /var/www/html/
linuxhelp html # ls
craft  index.html

Then, change ownership and permission for the craft directory.

linuxhelp html # chown -R www-data:www-data craft/
linuxhelp html # chmod -R 775 craft

Go to craft directory and go to db.php file and give database details.

linuxhelp html # cd craft/
linuxhelp craft # ls
craft  public  readme.txt
linuxhelp craft # vim craft/config/db.php

[&hellip ]
        // The database server name or IP address. Usually this is ' localhost'  or ' 127.0.0.1' .
        ' server'  =>  ' localhost' ,

        // The name of the database to select.
        ' database'  =>  ' craft' ,

        // The database username to connect with.
        ' user'  =>  ' craftuser' ,

        // The database password to connect with.
        ' password'  =>  ' 123' ,

        // The prefix to use when naming tables. This can be no more than 5 characters.
        ' tablePrefix'  =>  ' craft' ,

[&hellip .]

Now rename the htaccess.

linuxhelp craft # cd public/
linuxhelp public # ls
htaccess  index.php  robots.txt  web.config
linuxhelp public # mv htaccess .htaccess 

Next, configure a virtual host for craft cms by creating a craft.conf file.

linuxhelp html # cd /etc/apache2/sites-available/
linuxhelp sites-available # vim craft.conf
[&hellip ]
< VirtualHost *:80> 
Servername   www.linuxhelp1.com
DocumentRoot " /var/www/html/craft" 
< Directory " /var/www/html/craft" > 
AllowOverride All
order allow,deny
allow from all
< /Directory> 
< /VirtualHost>  
[&hellip ]            

Now, we have to enable the ZenCart.conf file.

linuxhelp sites-available # a2ensite craft.conf 
Enabling site craft.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
  service apache2 reload

And then enable the rewrite modules.

linuxhelp sites-available # a2enmod rewrite 
Enabling module rewrite.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
  service apache2 restart

After that, make an entry in the host' s file.

linuxhelp sites-available # vim /etc/hosts
< give your ip>     < give your domain name> 

Finally, After all the configuration restart apache web server.

linuxhelp sites-available # systemctl restart apache2.service

After restarting apache server, open the browser, and navigate to the following URL:

http://www.linuxhelp1.com/public/index.php/admin/install

You will see the following screen after navigating into the given URL, click on begin for further setup

Now, create an account and click on next.

Next, give the details of the site setup and click on finish up.

Now the installation will begin as you can see from the below screen.

After a successful installation, you will be logged in as an admin user.

With this, the method to install craft cms on Linux Mint18.03 comes to an end.