How to install Dolphin Pro 7.3.5 on CentOS 7

To install Dolphin Pro 7.3.5 on CentOS 7

Dolphin Pro is a social networking website software platform written in PHP, using MySQL database. Licensed under CC-BY License. Developed and distributed by an Australian software company Boonex Pty Ltd. Dolphin Pro is packed with integrated iOS and Android apps and variety of extensions.

Prerequisites

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

Php installation with required modules

rpm -Uvh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh https://mirror.webtatic.com/yum/el7/webtatic-release.rpm
yum install php56w php56w-opcache php56w-mysql php56w-curl php56w-xml  php56w-mcrypt php56w-gd

Download a Dolphin Pro package using the following command

[root@linuxhelp1 user1]# wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/boonex-dolphin/files/latest/download?source=directory --no-check-certificate
--2018-04-16 03:07:05--  https://sourceforge.net/projects/boonex-dolphin/files/latest/download?source=directory
Resolving sourceforge.net (sourceforge.net)... 216.105.38.13
Connecting to sourceforge.net (sourceforge.net)|216.105.38.13|:443... connected.
.
.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 30947706 (30M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘ download?source=directory’ 

100%[============================================================> ] 30,947,706  1.10MB/s   in 29s    

2018-04-16 03:07:39 (1.01 MB/s) - ‘ download?source=directory’  saved [30947706/30947706]

The downloaded package is a zip file, so unzip the file

[root@linuxhelp1 user1]# unzip download?source=directory
Archive:  download?source=directory
   creating: Dolphin-v.7.3.5/
  inflating: Dolphin-v.7.3.5/.htaccess  
  inflating: Dolphin-v.7.3.5/about_us.php  
  inflating: Dolphin-v.7.3.5/activation_email.php  
   creating: Dolphin-v.7.3.5/administration/
.
.
  inflating: Dolphin-v.7.3.5/xmlrpc/lib/compat/is_scalar.php  
  inflating: Dolphin-v.7.3.5/xmlrpc/lib/compat/var_export.php  
  inflating: Dolphin-v.7.3.5/xmlrpc/lib/compat/version_compare.php  
  inflating: Dolphin-v.7.3.5/xmlrpc/lib/xmlrpc.inc  
  inflating: Dolphin-v.7.3.5/xmlrpc/lib/xmlrpc_wrappers.inc  
  inflating: Dolphin-v.7.3.5/xmlrpc/lib/xmlrpcs.inc  
  inflating: Dolphin-v.7.3.5/xmlrpc/r.php  

Move the file to the HTML location

[root@linuxhelp1 user1]# mv Dolphin-v.7.3.5 /var/www/

Switch to the following directory

[root@linuxhelp1 user1]# cd /var/www/

Change the ownership and permission of the file as follows

[root@linuxhelp1 www]# chown -R apache.apache Dolphin-v.7.3.5
 [root@linuxhelp1 www]# chmod -R 775 Dolphin-v.7.3.5

Create a new virtual host configuration for accessing dolphin cms

[root@linuxhelp1 www]# vim /etc/httpd/conf.d/dolphin.conf
< VirtualHost *:80> 
ServerName www.linxuhelp1.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/Dolphin-v.7.3.5/

< Directory /var/www/Dolphin-v.7.3.5/> 
AllowOverride All
allow from all
< /Directory> 

< /VirtualHost> 

Restart the httpd service using the following command.

[root@linuxhelp1 www]# systemctl restart httpd

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

Click the ' Install' option to start the installation.

Verify the File permission and od files and directories and make changes if any.

Configure the database setup as follows

configure the site information

You need to setup a Cron job as specified below

After the successful installation, you will see the following page

Remove or rename the install directory for secure installation

[root@www www]# cd Dolphin-v.7.3.5/
[root@www Dolphin-v.7.3.5]# mv install install.bkp
[root@www Dolphin-v.7.3.5]# systemctl restart httpd

After making a secure installation access the admin panel

you will see the admin dashboard of Dolphin as shown below

Preview of the site configured using Dolphin CMS

with this, the method to install Dolphin Pro 7.3.5 on CentOS 7 comes to an end.