How to install Geeklog 2.2.0 on Linuxmint-18.03
To install Geeklog 2.2.0 on Linuxmint-18.03
Geeklog is an open source content management system which is used for creating and managing dynamic web content. It can be used either as Weblog, CMS or Web Portal and it is written in PHP and supports MYSQL database.
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 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 Geeklog package using wget command
linuxhelp ~ # wget https://www.geeklog.net/downloads/visit.php/file_5b0c7089434be
--2018-06-08 14:22:04-- https://www.geeklog.net/downloads/visit.php/file_5b0c7089434be
Resolving www.geeklog.net (www.geeklog.net)... 216.92.57.85
Connecting to www.geeklog.net (www.geeklog.net)|216.92.57.85|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 15949944 (15M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘ file_5b0c7089434be’
file_5b0c7089434be 100%[====================================> ] 15.21M 995KB/s in 25s
2018-06-08 14:22:31 (617 KB/s) - ‘ file_5b0c7089434be’ saved [15949944/15949944]
Make a new directory
linuxhelp ~ # mkdir geeklog
The downloaded package is a tar file, so extract the package as follows
linuxhelp ~ # tar -zxvf file_5b0c7089434be -C geeklog/
db-config.php
emailgeeklogstories
INSTALL
readme
backups
backups/README
data
data/cacert.pem
data/cache
data/cache/index.html
data/layout_cache
data/layout_cache/index.html
data/layout_css
.
.
.
system/vendor/swiftmailer/swiftmailer/lib/swiftmailer_generate_mimes_config.php
system/vendor/swiftmailer/swiftmailer/lib/swift_init.php
system/vendor/swiftmailer/swiftmailer/lib/swift_required.php
system/vendor/swiftmailer/swiftmailer/lib/swift_required_pear.php
system/vendor/swiftmailer/swiftmailer/LICENSE
system/vendor/swiftmailer/swiftmailer/phpunit.xml.dist
system/vendor/swiftmailer/swiftmailer/README
system/vendor/swiftmailer/swiftmailer/VERSION
Change the ownership and permission of the Geeklog directory
linuxhelp ~ # ls file_5b0c7089434be geeklog linuxhelp ~ # chown -R www-data:www-data geeklog/ chmod -R 775 geeklog/
Move geeklog drectory to html location
linuxhelp ~ # mv geeklog/ /var/www/html/
Create a new virtual host configuration for accessing the Geeklog application
linuxhelp ~ # cd /etc/apache2/sites-available/
linuxhelp sites-available # vim geeklog.conf
< VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.linuxhelp1.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/geeklog/public_html/
< Directory /var/www/html/geeklog/public_html/>
AllowOverride All
allow from all
< /Directory>
< /VirtualHost>
Enable the site access
linuxhelp sites-available # a2ensite geeklog.conf
Enabling site geeklog.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
service apache2 reload
Enable the rewrite module
linuxhelp sites-available # a2enmod rewrite
Enabling module rewrite.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
service apache2 restart
Make an entry to the host file as follows
linuxhelp sites-available # vim /etc/hosts
Finally, restart the apache2 service
linuxhelp sites-available # systemctl restart apache2.service
Now you can proceed the further installation and configuration from the browser by navigating to the following URL: http://< ipaddress or domain name
Welcome page of Geeklog
Choose the installation type
Configure the site information, database detail, and Admin user credential
Once the installation is done you will see the following page.
Log in using the Admin user credentials
Once you login you need to set up a Password
Administration control panel of Geeklog
With this, the method to install Geeklog 2.2.0 on Linuxmint-18.03 comes to an end.
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