How To install Sitemagic CMS V4.4 on linuxmint 18.03

To install Sitemagic CMS V4.4 on linuxmint 18.03

Sitemagic CMS is the world' s most beautiful Content Management System. It is Designed in the way that allows users to create truly stunning websites in a very short amount of time. It’ s complete CMS on the market capable of running without a database.

Pre-requirements
Install LAMP (apache and php7.2)

FOR PHP INSTALLATION

apt-get install php-mysql php-gd php-ldap php-xml php-xmlrpc php-mbstring php-mcrypt curl zlib

Download the site magic cms package from the browser using the following URL https://sitemagic.org/Download.html

After downloading the package extract and rename the directory

linuxhelp ~ # cd /home/user/Downloads/
linuxhelp Downloads # ls
SitemagicCMS440.zip
linuxhelp Downloads # unzip SitemagicCMS440.zip -d sitemagic
Archive:  SitemagicCMS440.zip
   creating: sitemagic/base/
   creating: sitemagic/base/gui/
   creating: sitemagic/base/gui/Fonts/
   creating: sitemagic/base/gui/Fonts/FontAwesome/
   creating: sitemagic/base/gui/Fonts/FontAwesome/css/
  inflating: sitemagic/base/gui/Fonts/FontAwesome/css/font-awesome.css 
  inflating: sitemagic/base/gui/Fonts/FontAwesome/css/font-awesome.min.css 
   creating: sitemagic/base/gui/Fonts/FontAwesome/fonts/
  inflating: sitemagic/base/gui/Fonts/FontAwesome/fonts/fontawesome-webfont.eot 
  inflating: sitemagic/base/gui/Fonts/FontAwesome/fonts/fontawesome-webfont.svg 
  inflating: sitemagic/base/gui/Fonts/FontAwesome/fonts/fontawesome-webfont.ttf 
  inflating: sitemagic/base/gui/Fonts/FontAwesome/fonts/fontawesome-webfont.woff 
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  inflating: sitemagic/templates/SMWorldPlayground/enhancements/iefix.normal.js 
  inflating: sitemagic/templates/SMWorldPlayground/generated-bg.jpg 
  inflating: sitemagic/templates/SMWorldPlayground/index.html 
  inflating: sitemagic/templates/SMWorldPlayground/metadata.xml 
  inflating: sitemagic/templates/SMWorldPlayground/override.css 
  inflating: sitemagic/templates/SMWorldPlayground/override.defaults.js 
  inflating: sitemagic/templates/SMWorldPlayground/override.js 
  inflating: sitemagic/templates/SMWorldPlayground/style.css 
  inflating: sitemagic/upgrade.php   

linuxhelp Downloads # ls
sitemagic  SitemagicCMS440.zip

Move the sitemagic directory to the /var/www/html directory

linuxhelp Downloads # mv sitemagic/ /var/www/html/

Go to /var/www/html directory

linuxhelp Downloads # cd /var/www/html/
linuxhelp html # ls
index.html  sitemagic

Change the ownership and permission for the anchor directory

linuxhelp html # chown -R www-data:www-data sitemagic/   chmod -R 775 sitemagic/

Configure the virtual host for anchor cms. Create empty file named anchor.conf

linuxhelp html # cd /etc/apache2/sites-available/
linuxhelp sites-available # vim site.conf
 [&hellip ]
< virtualhost *:80> 
servername  www.linuxhelp1.com
Documentroot  /var/www/html/sitemagic/
< Directory /var/www/html/sitemagic/> 
AllowOverride
order allow,deny
allow from all
< /Directory> 
< /virtualhost> 
[&hellip ]        

Enable the site.conf file

linuxhelp sites-available # a2ensite site.conf 
Enabling site site.
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 local ip address>    <  give your domain name> 

Restart the Apache web server

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://< ipaddress or domain name

Welcome page of sitemagic cms

Log in using the default admin credentials as shown below

Configure your site Information

Customize as per your needs as follows

With this, the method to install Sitemagic CMS V4.4 on linuxmint 18.03 comes to an end.