How to install Koken cms 0.22.24 on CentOS 7

To install Koken CMS 0.22.24 on CentOS 7

Koken is a free and open source content management system.it’ s written in php and uses a MySQL database. Koken is a free website publishing system developed for photographers, designers, and creative DIYs. The main benefit of using Koken CMS is that it does not require significant technical skill or knowledge to manage. In this tutorial, we will cover the installation of Koken CMS on CentOS 7.

Prerequisites

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

Php installation with required following 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 php56w-mbstring

Installation

Switch to any local directory where you want to download Koken CMS package.

[root@linuxhelp1 ~]# cd /home/user1/

Download a Koken CMS package using the following command.

[root@linuxhelp1 user1]# wget https://s3.amazonaws.com/koken-installer/releases/Koken_Installer.zip
--2018-04-16 03:09:51--  https://s3.amazonaws.com/koken-installer/releases/Koken_Installer.zip
Resolving s3.amazonaws.com (s3.amazonaws.com)... 54.231.40.2
Connecting to s3.amazonaws.com (s3.amazonaws.com)|54.231.40.2|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 11881 (12K) [application/zip]
Saving to: ‘ Koken_Installer.zip’ 

100%[============================================================> ] 11,881      42.0KB/s   in 0.3s   

2018-04-16 03:09:52 (42.0 KB/s) - ‘ Koken_Installer.zip’  saved [11881/11881]

The downloaded package is a zip file, so we need to unzip the package as follows.

[root@linuxhelp1 user1]# unzip Koken_Installer.zip 
Archive:  Koken_Installer.zip
  inflating: koken/index.php

Move the extracted package to the Apache document root directory.

[root@linuxhelp1 user1]# mv koken /var/www/

Next, change the ownership and permission of the file as follows.

[root@linuxhelp1 www]# chown -R apache. apache koken
[root@linuxhelp1 www]# chmod -R 775 koken

Create a new virtual host configuration for accessing the Koken CMS application.

[root@linuxhelp1 www]# vim /etc/httpd/conf.d/koken.conf
< VirtualHost *:80> 
ServerName www.linuxhelp1.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/ koken

< Directory /var/www/ koken/> 
AllowOverride All
Allow from all
< /Directory> 

< /VirtualHost> 

After Creating the configuration file restart Apache service as follows.

[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.

Now click on begin installation to start the installation procedure.

First, you need to set up the user account details as follows.

After setting up the user accounts you have to configure the database details as follows.

Next, choose your timezone and click next.

Next, you need to sign up as follows.

And then finally, to start the installation click on ' install now' option.

After the successful installation, you will see the following page.

Now login to the Koken CMS using the user admin credentials you created previously.

After the successful login, you will see the administration page of Koken CMS.

With this, the method to install Koken cms on centos 7 comes to an end.