How to install E107 2.1.7 on Ubuntu 18.04
To install E107 CMS 2.1.7 on Ubuntu 18.04
E107 is an open-source Content Management Tool for website pages which is built based on PHP and MySQL. E107 can be easily customized by its users. It doesn' t require any prior knowledge of major programming languages in order to build a website. It fully supports CSS3, HTML5, jQuery and FontAwesome. It is simple, flexible enough to meet the needs of a novice to a professional website user. In this tutorial, we will cover the installation of E107 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-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 an E107 package using the following URL
root@linuxhelp1:~# wget https://excellmedia.dl.sourceforge.net/project/e107/e107/e107%20v2.1.7/e107_2.1.7_full.zip
--2018-07-12 12:29:17-- https://excellmedia.dl.sourceforge.net/project/e107/e107/e107%20v2.1.7/e107_2.1.7_full.zip
Resolving excellmedia.dl.sourceforge.net (excellmedia.dl.sourceforge.net)... 202.153.32.19
Connecting to excellmedia.dl.sourceforge.net (excellmedia.dl.sourceforge.net)|202.153.32.19|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 15869072 (15M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘ e107_2.1.7_full.zip’
e107_2.1.7_full.zip 100%[==============================> ] 15.13M 129KB/s in 96s
2018-07-12 12:30:53 (162 KB/s) - ‘ e107_2.1.7_full.zip’ saved [15869072/15869072]
After Downloading extract the downloaded package
root@linuxhelp1:~# unzip e107_2.1.7_full.zip -d e107
Archive: e107_2.1.7_full.zip
inflating: e107/README.md
inflating: e107/banner.php
inflating: e107/class2.php
inflating: e107/comment.php
inflating: e107/contact.php
inflating: e107/cron.php
inflating: e107/download.php
inflating: e107/e107.htaccess
.
.
inflating: e107/signup.php
inflating: e107/sitedown.php
inflating: e107/submitnews.php
inflating: e107/thumb.php
inflating: e107/top.php
inflating: e107/unsubscribe.php
inflating: e107/upload.php
inflating: e107/user.php
inflating: e107/userposts.php
inflating: e107/usersettings.php
Move the extracted file into the HTML directory
root@linuxhelp1:~# mv e107 /var/www/
Navigate to the apache document root directory
root@linuxhelp1:~# cd /var/www/
Change ownership and permission of the as E107 CMS follows
root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# chown -R www-data.www-data e107
root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# chmod -R 775 e107
Create a new virtual host configuration for accessing the E107 CMS
root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/e107.conf
< VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.linuxhelp1.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/e107/
< Directory /var/www/e107/>
AllowOverride All
Allow from all
< /Directory>
< /VirtualHost>
Enable site access
root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# a2ensite e107.conf
Enabling site e107.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
systemctl reload apache2
Disable 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
Enable rewrite module
root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# a2enmod rewrite
Enabling module rewrite.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
systemctl restart apache2
Restart the apache service to make the changes effect
root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# systemctl restart apache2
Now you can proceed the further installation and configuration from the browser by navigating to the following URL: http://< ipaddress or domain name
Choose the language for using Elxis CMS as shown below
Configure the Database setup as follows
Verify the database connection
Make a compatibility check for installing E107 as shown below
Configure the Admin user setup
Configure the Site information set up as follows
After the configuration, you will see the following page as shown below
The homepage of E107
Access the login page from the options shown below
You can log in using the admin user credentials
Admin dashboard of E107
Version of E107
With this, the method to install E107 on Ubuntu 18.04 comes to an end.
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