How to Install ProcessWire CMS 3.0.123 v On Ubuntu 18.10

Installation Of ProcessWire CMS 3.0.123v On Ubuntu 18.10

Pre-requisites:

LAMP Stack

Ubuntu 18.10

Apache 2.4.34

MariaDB 5.5+ and

PHP 7.2

PHP Modules:

php php-gd php-mbstring php-mcrypt php-mysql php-curl php-simplexml php-zip

Download Link:

composer create-project processwire/processwire

Configure MariaDB For ProcessWire CMS using 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 55
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 wire character set utf8mb4;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.09 sec)
MariaDB [(none)]> use wire;
Database changed
MariaDB [wire]> create user wireuser@localhost identified by 'linuxc';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.11 sec)
MariaDB [wire]> grant all on wire.* to wireuser@localhost;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)
MariaDB [wire]> flush privileges;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.02 sec)
MariaDB [wire]> exit
Bye

Change the directory to Apache’s Document root directory.

root@linuxhelp:~# cd /var/www

Create a directory for ProceessWire CMS

root@linuxhelp:/var/www# mkdir wire

Change the directory to wire to download Process Wire CMS using composer

root@linuxhelp:/var/www# cd wire

Download the Process Wire CMS using the following command.

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/wire# composer create-project processwire/processwire
Do not run Composer as root/super user! See https://getcomposer.org/root for details
Installing processwire/processwire (3.0.123)
  - Installing processwire/processwire (3.0.123): Downloading (100%)         
Created project in /var/www/wire/processwire
Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies (including require-dev)
Nothing to install or update
Writing lock file
Generating autoload files

List the content to view the files and folders that has created using composer.

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/wire# ll
total 12
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 Apr 24 20:15 ./
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 4096 Apr 24 20:13 ../
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Apr 24 20:15 processwire/

Rename the directory to final

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/wire# mv processwire/ final

Change the directory to final

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

List the files and folders in the final directory

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/wire/final# ll
total 164
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root  4096 Apr 24 20:15 ./
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root  4096 Apr 24 20:15 ../
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   537 Dec 21 11:30 composer.json
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   589 Apr 24 20:15 composer.lock
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  3571 Dec 21 11:30 CONTRIBUTING.md
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    52 Dec 21 11:30 .gitattributes
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   708 Dec 21 11:30 .gitignore
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 12709 Dec 21 11:30 htaccess.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  2421 Dec 21 11:30 index.php
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 53399 Dec 21 11:30 install.php
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 19125 Dec 21 11:30 LICENSE.TXT
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  6289 Dec 21 11:30 README.md
drwxr-xr-x  6 root root  4096 Dec 21 11:30 site-beginner/
drwxr-xr-x  6 root root  4096 Dec 21 11:30 site-blank/
drwxr-xr-x  6 root root  4096 Dec 21 11:30 site-classic/
drwxr-xr-x  6 root root  4096 Dec 21 11:30 site-default/
drwxr-xr-x  6 root root  4096 Dec 21 11:30 site-languages/
drwxr-xr-x  6 root root  4096 Dec 21 11:30 site-regular/
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root  4096 Apr 24 20:15 vendor/
drwxr-xr-x  5 root root  4096 Dec 21 11:30 wire/

Assign the Ownership permissions to the final directory.

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

Assign writable Permissions to the final directory.

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

Create a customised Configuration file for Process Wire CMS

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

Disable the default access sites to avoid conflicts

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

Enable the Process Wire site

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

Enable the rewrite Module

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

Open the browser and enter the servername that has set in the configuration file of Processwire CMS In the welcome page of process wire cms , click get started to proceed further. Select Beginner edition as the installation profile and click continue After the successful requirements check ,click continue to next step to proceed further. Enter the database details that has configured in the MariaDB database for Processwire CMS Set the time-zone ,check the file-permissions and HTTP Host names. Click Continue

Enroll the admin credentials and click continue. Click Login to Admin and enter login credentials The Admins account of processWire CMS gets opened. Therefore,Installation Of ProcessWire CMS 3.0.123v on Ubuntu 18.10 comes to end.