To Install ProcessWire CMS on Ubuntu 21.04

Introduction

CMS stands for the content management system, software that manages digital content. ProcessWire is an open-source content management system written in PHP with a great API.

Prerequisites:

Apache Web server

Maria DB

PHP and its Modules

Composer

Installation Procedure:

Step 1: Check the OS version by using the following command

root@linuxhelp:~# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 21.04
Release:	21.04
Codename:	hirsute

Step 2: Log in to the Maria DB

root@linuxhelp:~# mysql -u root -p
Enter password: 
Welcome to the MariaDB monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MariaDB connection id is 30
Server version: 10.5.12-MariaDB-0ubuntu0.21.04.1 Ubuntu 21.04

Copyright (c) 2000, 2018, Oracle, MariaDB Corporation Ab and others.

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

Step 3: Create database for processwire CMS

MariaDB [(none)]> create database process character set utf8mb4;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.017 sec)

Step 4: Select the process database

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

Step 5: Create a user named “puser”

MariaDB [process]> create user puser@localhost identified by 'linuxc';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.024 sec)

Step 6: Grant all privileges on process database for the user “puser”

MariaDB [process]> grant all  on process.* to puser@localhost;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.003 sec)

Step 7: Flush privileges to make changes effect.

MariaDB [process]> flush privileges;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.003 sec)

Step 8: Exit from the Maria DB

MariaDB [process]> exit
Bye

Step 9: Make a directory for ProcessWire CMS

root@linuxhelp:~# mkdir /var/www/process

Step 10: Change directory to the process directory

root@linuxhelp:~# cd /var/www/process/

Step 11: Download ProcessWire CMS by using the composer

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/process# composer create-project processwire/processwire
Do not run Composer as root/super user! See https://getcomposer.org/root for details
Continue as root/super user [yes]? yes
Creating a "processwire/processwire" project at "./processwire"
Installing processwire/processwire (3.0.184)
  - Downloading processwire/processwire (3.0.184)
  - Installing processwire/processwire (3.0.184): Extracting archive
Created project in /var/www/process/processwire
Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies
Nothing to modify in lock file
Writing lock file
Installing dependencies from lock file (including require-dev)
Nothing to install, update or remove
Generating autoload files

Step 12: Rename processwire directory to final

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

Step 13: Change Ownership to the final directory

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

Step 14: Change Permisiions to the final directory

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

Step 15: Create Virtual Host for the ProcessWire CMS

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/process# vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/process.conf


<virtualhost *:80>
servername www.linuxhelp1.com
documentroot /var/www/process/final

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

Step 16: Disable the default Virtual Host file of apache

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

Step 17: Enable the Virtual Host

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

Step 18: Enable the read write module of apache

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

Step 19: Restart the apache webserver

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/process# systemctl restart apache2

Step 20: Make host entry for ProcessWire CMS

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/process# vi /etc/hosts
192.168.6.115 www.linuxhelp1.com

Step 21: Ping server name in browser

Step 22: Beginner install with ProcessWire CMS

Step 23: Giving Data Base Credentials

Step 24: Give Time Zone

Step 25: Create Admin Credentials

Step 26: Login in Admin section

Step 27: ProcessWire CMS Dashboard

By this installation of ProcessWire CMS on Ubuntu 21.04 is comes to an end