How to Install Kajona CMS 6.2v on Ubuntu 18.10

Installation of Kajona CMS 6.2v On Ubuntu 18.10

Requirements:

LAMP Stack

PHP's version should be at least 7.0 or higher.

PHP Modules:

php php-gd php-mbstring php-xml php-zip php-openssl

Download Link:

https://www.kajona.de/download.php?systemid=c1cda54593861f48d589

Installation

Start the installation process by configuring the MariaDB for Kajona CMS 6.2v using the root password.

root@linuxhelp:~# mysql -u root -p
Enter password: 
Welcome to the MariaDB monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MariaDB connection id is 58
Server version: 10.1.29-MariaDB-6ubuntu2 Ubuntu 18.10

Copyright (c) 2000, 2017, Oracle, MariaDB Corporation Ab and others.

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.

MariaDB [(none)]> create database kajona character set utf8mb4;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.07 sec)

MariaDB [(none)]> use kajona;
Database changed

MariaDB [kajona]> create user kuser@localhost identified by 'linuxc';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.03 sec)

MariaDB [kajona]> grant all on kajona.* to kuser@localhost;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

MariaDB [kajona]> flush privileges;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)

MariaDB [kajona]> exit
Bye

Once it is done, change the directory to Apache’s Document Root Directory.

root@linuxhelp:~# cd /var/www

And then, create a directory for Kajona CMS Under the Document root directory

root@linuxhelp:/var/www# mkdir kajona

After that change the directory to Kajona to download the Kajona CMS

root@linuxhelp:/var/www# cd kajona

You can download the Kajona CMS 6.2v using the link that follows wget command here below.

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/kajona# wget https://www.kajona.de/download.php?systemid=c1cda54593861f48d589
--2019-05-02 22:06:06--  https://www.kajona.de/download.php?systemid=c1cda54593861f48d589
Resolving www.kajona.de (www.kajona.de)... 91.250.69.82, 91.250.69.82, 2a01:488:42:1000:5bfa:4552:57:ced6
Connecting to www.kajona.de (www.kajona.de)|91.250.69.82|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 10308631 (9.8M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘download.php?systemid=c1cda54593861f48d589’

download.php?systemid=c1cda54 100%[==============================================>]   9.83M   485KB/s    in 25s     

2019-05-02 22:06:33 (410 KB/s) - ‘download.php?systemid=c1cda54593861f48d589’ saved [10308631/10308631]

After the downlaod, list the contents to check the downloaded file.

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/kajona# ll
total 10076
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root     4096 May  2 22:06  ./
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root     4096 May  2 22:05  ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10308631 May  2 22:05 'download.php?systemid=c1cda54593861f48d589'

Extract the downloaded file using unzip as follows

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/kajona# unzip download.php?systemid=c1cda54593861f48d589
Archive:  download.php?systemid=c1cda54593861f48d589
   creating: kajona/
   creating: kajona/admin/
   creating: kajona/core/
   creating: kajona/files/
   creating: kajona/files/cache/
   creating: kajona/files/downloads/
   creating: kajona/files/extract/
   creating: kajona/files/images/
.
.
.
.
.
inflating: kajona/project/.htaccess  
  inflating: kajona/project/lang_readme.txt  
  inflating: kajona/templates/.htaccess  
  inflating: kajona/templates/readme.txt  
  inflating: kajona/xml.php          

List the contents to check the extracted files

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/kajona# ll
total 10080
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root     4096 May  2 22:07  ./
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root     4096 May  2 22:05  ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10308631 May  2 22:05 'download.php?systemid=c1cda54593861f48d589'
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root     4096 Aug 10  2018  kajona/

Once it is done, rename the newly created directory. Here it is renamed as final.

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/kajona# mv kajona/ final

You should also change the directory.

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

Once it is done, assign writable permissions to the Final directory you recently created.

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

Also, assign ownership permissions to the final directory.

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

Create a customised configuration file for Kajona CMS.

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/kajona/final# vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/k.conf
<virtualhost *:80>
servername www.linuxhelp1.com
documentroot /var/www/kajona/final/

<directory /var/www/kajona/final/>
allowoverride all
allow from all
</directory>
</virtualhost>

After that, disable the access for default sites.

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

You should then enable the Kajona CMS site.

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

And also enable the Rewrite Module.

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

After that restart the service oF Apache.

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

Open the browser and enter the server name that you had configured inside the virtual hosting of Kajona CMS k.conf After checking the permissions of some files and availability of PHP modules, proceed further. After Setting up database details that you have configured inside the MariaDB database, Click Save to config.php Enroll the admin credentials and click on create an account. To start the installation of Kajona CMS, click on Start Installation. After the Successful Installation of Kajona CMS, Click on the backend to log into the admin’s Account. Provide the login credentials of Kajona cms for admins account and the dashboard gets opened. With this, the installation of Kajona CMS 6.2v on Ubuntu 18.10 comes to end.