How to install Lepton CMS on Linux mint 18.03

To install Lepton CMS on Linux mint 18.03
Lepton 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 PHP and uses MySQL database. It supports for forums, image galleries, comments and many more.

Prerequisites

Install LAMP(Apache, MariaDB, and php7.2)
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 php7.2 php7.2-mysql php7.2-curl php7.2-json php7.2-cgi libapache2-mod-php7.2 php7.2-xmlrpc php7.2-gd php7.2-mbstring php7.2 php7.2-common  php7.2-xmlrpc php7.2-soap  php7.2-xml php7.2-intl  php7.2-cli 
php7.2-ldap php7.2-zip php7.2-readline php7.2-imap php7.2-tidy php7.2-recode php7.2-sq php7.2-intl

Installation

Download the Lepton cms package using wget command

linuxhelp ~ # wget https://lepton-cms.org/media/download_gallery/LEPTON_stable_3.0.3.zip
--2018-06-15 14:01:07--  https://lepton-cms.org/media/download_gallery/LEPTON_stable_3.0.3.zip
Resolving lepton-cms.org (lepton-cms.org)... 94.102.208.155
Connecting to lepton-cms.org (lepton-cms.org)|94.102.208.155|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 6479663 (6.2M) [application/zip]
Saving to: ‘ LEPTON_stable_3.0.3.zip’ 

LEPTON_stable_3.0.3.zip  100%[==================================> ]   6.18M   547KB/s    in 15s     

2018-06-15 14:01:23 (430 KB/s) - ‘ LEPTON_stable_3.0.3.zip’  saved [6479663/6479663]

The download package is a zip file, so unzip the package as follows

linuxhelp ~ # unzip LEPTON_stable_3.0.3.zip 
Archive:  LEPTON_stable_3.0.3.zip
   creating: LEPTON_stable_3.0.3/
  inflating: LEPTON_stable_3.0.3/CHANGELOG 
  inflating: LEPTON_stable_3.0.3/COPYING 
  inflating: LEPTON_stable_3.0.3/INSTALL 
  inflating: LEPTON_stable_3.0.3/LICENSE 
  inflating: LEPTON_stable_3.0.3/README.md 
   creating: LEPTON_stable_3.0.3/upload/
   creating: LEPTON_stable_3.0.3/upload/account/
.
.
.
  inflating: LEPTON_stable_3.0.3/upload/templates/semantic/img/white-image.png 
  inflating: LEPTON_stable_3.0.3/upload/templates/semantic/index.php 
  inflating: LEPTON_stable_3.0.3/upload/templates/semantic/info.php 
   creating: LEPTON_stable_3.0.3/upload/templates/semantic/js/
  inflating: LEPTON_stable_3.0.3/upload/templates/semantic/js/cookieconsent.js 
  inflating: LEPTON_stable_3.0.3/upload/templates/semantic/js/index.php 
  inflating: LEPTON_stable_3.0.3/upload/templates/semantic/preview.jpg 
  inflating: LEPTON_stable_3.0.3/upload/temp/index.php

Rename the extracted directory

linuxhelp ~ # ls
LEPTON_stable_3.0.3  LEPTON_stable_3.0.3.zip
linuxhelp ~ # mv LEPTON_stable_3.0.3 lepton

Change the ownership and permission for the Lepton directory.

linuxhelp ~ # chown -R www-data:www-data lepton/
linuxhelp ~ # chmod -R 775 lepton/

Move the lepton directory into the /html location.

linuxhelp ~ # mv lepton/ /var/www/html/

Create a new virtual host configuration for accessing the Lepton. create Lepton.conf file as follows

linuxhelp ~ # cd /etc/apache2/sites-available/
linuxhelp sites-available # vim lepton.conf

< VirtualHost *:80> 
ServerName www.linuxhelp1.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/lepton/
< Directory /var/www/html/lepton/> 
AllowOverride All
allow from all
< /Directory> 
< /VirtualHost> 

Enable the site access.

linuxhelp sites-available # a2ensite lepton.conf 
Enabling site lepton.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
  service apache2 reload

Make an entry to the host file as follows

linuxhelp sites-available # vim /etc/hosts
< Give your ip>         < Give your domain name> 

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://local IP (or) domain name

Verify the PHP requirements

Verify the file permissions of the Lepton CMS

Configure the Path setting, Language, and Timezone

Configure the Database detail.

Configure the Admin user setup and site information.

Once the installation is done you will see the following page.

Log in using the admin user credentials

Admin control panel of Lepton CMS

With this, the method to install Lepton CMS on Linux mint 18.03 comes to an end.