How to Install GpEasy CMS 4.4v on Ubuntu 18.10

Installation Of gpEasy CMS 4.4 On Ubuntu 18.10

Features

Lightweight, database free, CMS

True WYSIWYG Editing

Drag and Drop Page Manager

Built in Image Gallery

Pre-requisites:

Apache 2.4.34

Php 7.2

PHP Modules :

php php-gd php-pdo php-mbstring php-mcrypt php-simplexml

Download Link:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/gpeasy/files/latest/download

Installation

Change the directory to Apache’s Document root dirctory as follows:

root@linuxhelp:~# cd /var/www

Create a directory for gpeasy CMS

root@linuxhelp:/var/www# mkdir gp

Download the gpEasy CMS 4.4v using wget

root@linuxhelp:/var/www# wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/gpeasy/files/latest/download
--2019-04-27 01:27:33--  https://sourceforge.net/projects/gpeasy/files/latest/download
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... 302 Found
Location: https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/gpeasy/gpeasy/4.4/gpEasy_4.4.zip?r=&ts=1556353628&use_mirror=excellmedia [following]
--2019-04-27 01:27:34--  https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/gpeasy/gpeasy/4.4/gpEasy_4.4.zip?r=&ts=1556353628&use_mirror=excellmedia
Resolving downloads.sourceforge.net (downloads.sourceforge.net)... 216.105.38.13
Connecting to downloads.sourceforge.net (downloads.sourceforge.net)|216.105.38.13|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: https://excellmedia.dl.sourceforge.net/project/gpeasy/gpeasy/4.4/gpEasy_4.4.zip [following]
--2019-04-27 01:27:35--  https://excellmedia.dl.sourceforge.net/project/gpeasy/gpeasy/4.4/gpEasy_4.4.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: 2838827 (2.7M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘download’
download                      100%[==============================================>]   2.71M  1.04MB/s    in 2.6s    
2019-04-27 01:27:38 (1.04 MB/s) - ‘download’ saved [2838827/2838827]

Extract the zip file of gpeasy CMS by executing the following command

root@linuxhelp:/var/www# unzip download -d gp
Archive:  download
   creating: gp/gpEasy/
 extracting: gp/gpEasy/robots.txt    
  inflating: gp/gpEasy/Addon.ini     
  inflating: gp/gpEasy/README.md     
  inflating: gp/gpEasy/.htaccess     
  inflating: gp/gpEasy/gpconfig.php   
.
.
.
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  inflating: gp/gpEasy/include/thirdparty/finder/js/i18n/hu.js  
  inflating: gp/gpEasy/addons/Multi Site/Install_Check.php  
  inflating: gp/gpEasy/addons/Multi Site/Addon.ini  
  inflating: gp/gpEasy/addons/Multi Site/Install.php  
  inflating: gp/gpEasy/addons/Multi Site/multi_site.css  

Change the directory to newly created directory gp

root@linuxhelp:/var/www# cd gp

List the content to check the exctracted files and folders of gpEasy CMS

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/gp# ll
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Apr 27 01:27 ./
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Apr 27 01:27 ../
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 May  4  2015 gpEasy/

Rename the directory to final

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/gp# mv gpEasy/ final

Change the directory to final to assign ownership and writable permissions to the directory

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/gp# cd final/

List the contents of the final directory

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/gp/final# ll
total 76
drwxr-xr-x  6 root root  4096 May  4  2015 ./
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root  4096 Apr 27 01:28 ../
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    74 May  4  2015 Addon.ini
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root  4096 May  4  2015 addons/
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 May  4  2015 data/
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  4167 May  4  2015 gpconfig.php
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 18092 May  4  2015 gpl.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   100 May  4  2015 .htaccess
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root  4096 May  4  2015 include/
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   611 May  4  2015 index.php
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  2168 May  4  2015 README.md
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    23 May  4  2015 robots.txt
drwxr-xr-x  5 root root  4096 May  4  2015 themes/
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    72 May  4  2015 web.config

Assign Ownership permissions to the final directory

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/gp/final# chown -R www-data. ./

Assign Writable permissions to the foinal directory to access the gpEasy cms through web-browser.

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/gp/final# chmod -R 775 ./

Create a customised configuration file for gpeasy cms as follows:

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/gp/final# vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/gp.conf
<virtualhost *:80>
servername www.linuxhelp1.com
documentroot /var/www/gp/final/
<directory /var/www/gp/final/>
allowoverride all
allow from all
</directory>
</virtualhost>

Disable the default site access

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/gp/final# a2dissite 000-default.conf 
Site 000-default disabled.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
systemctl reload apache2

Enable the gpeasy cms site

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/gp/final# a2ensite gp.conf 
Enabling site gp.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
systemctl reload apache2

Enable the rewrite Module as follows:

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/gp/final# a2enmod rewrite 
Enabling module rewrite.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
systemctl restart apache2

Restart the service OF apache.

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/gp/final# systemctl restart apache2.

Open the browser and enter the servername in the url of the browser to access the gpEasy CMS Configure the admin credentials and click Install Installation was successful.Click take a look at your website.

Therefore,Installation Of gpEasy CMS 4.4v On Ubuntu 18.10 comes to end.