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PyroCMS is an open source CMS written in PHP. PyroCMS source code is hosted on GitHub. In this guide we’ll walk through the entire PyroCMS installation process on a CentOS 7 Vultr instance.
Requirements
Before you can install PyroCMS on a server, there are a few requirements that need to be met.
- 1GB of RAM
- LEMP/LAMP stack
- PHP >= 7.0
- PDO PHP Extension
- cURL PHP Extension
- SQLite PHP Extension
- OpenSSL PHP Extension
- Mbstring PHP Extension
- Fileinfo PHP Extension
- Tokenizer PHP Extension
- GD Library (>=2.0) OR Imagick PHP extension (>=6.5.7)
Check the CentOS version.
cat /etc/centos-release
# CentOS Linux release 7.4.1708 (Core)
Create a new non-root
user account with sudo
access and switch to it.
useradd -c "John Doe" johndoe && passwd johndoe
usermod -aG wheel johndoe
su - johndoe
NOTE: Replace johndoe
with your username.
Set up the timezone.
timedatectl list-timezones
sudo timedatectl set-timezone 'Region/City'
Ensure that your system is up to date.
sudo yum update -y
Install required and useful packages.
sudo yum install -y wget vim unzip bash-completion
Disable SELinux.
sudo setenforce 0
Install PHP and required extensions
CentOS does not provide the latest PHP version in its default software repositories. We’ll need to add a Webtatic YUM repo. Instructions on how to add the repo are available in this Vultr guide.
Download and install PHP 7.2 and required PHP extensions.
sudo yum install -y php72w php72w-cli php72w-fpm php72w-mysql php72w-curl php72w-sqlite3 php72w-mbstring php72w-gd php72w-dom
Check PHP version.
php --version
PHP 7.2.2 (cli) (built: Feb 4 2018 10:14:07) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) 1997-2018 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2018 Zend Technologies
Install MySQL/MariaDB and create a database
Download and install MariaDB.
sudo vim /etc/yum.repos.d/MariaDB.repo
# Copy/paste this to the /etc/yum.repos.d/MariaDB.repo file
[mariadb]
name = MariaDB
baseurl = https://yum.mariadb.org/10.2/centos7-amd64
gpgkey=https://yum.mariadb.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-MariaDB
gpgcheck=1
sudo yum install -y MariaDB-server MariaDB-client
Check the MariaDB version.
mysql --version
# mysql Ver 15.1 Distrib 10.2.13-MariaDB, for Linux (x86_64) using readline 5.1
Start and enable MariaDB.
sudo systemctl enable mariadb.service
sudo systemctl start mariadb.service
Run the mysql_secure_installation
script to improve the security of your MariaDB installation.
sudo mysql_secure_installation
Log into MariaDB as the root user.
mysql -u root -p
# Enter password:
Create a new MariaDB database and user, and remember the credentials.
create database dbname;
grant all on dbname.* to 'username' identified by 'password';
Exit MySQL.
exit
Install and configure NGINX
Install NGINX.
sudo vim /etc/yum.repos.d/nginx_mainline.repo
# Copy/paste this to the /etc/yum.repos.d/nginx_mainline.repo file
[nginx]
name=nginx repo
baseurl=https://nginx.org/packages/mainline/centos/7/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
wget https://nginx.org/keys/nginx_signing.key
sudo rpm --import nginx_signing.key
rm nginx_signing.key
sudo yum install -y nginx
Check the NGINX version.
nginx -v
Start and enable NGINX.
sudo systemctl enable nginx.service
sudo systemctl start nginx.service
Configure NGINX as a FastCGI proxy. Run sudo vim /etc/nginx/conf.d/pyro.conf
and populate it with the following text.
server {
listen 80;
server_name example.com; # Check this
root /var/www/pyro/public; # Check this
index index.php index.html;
charset utf-8;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}
location ~ /.php$ {
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000; # Check this
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
}
NOTE: Make sure to point the web root to Pyro’s public
directory.
Test the NGINX configuration.
sudo nginx -t
Reload NGINX.
sudo systemctl reload nginx.service
Download and install Composer
Download the Composer dependencies.
sudo yum install -y curl git unzip
Download and install Composer, the dependency manager for PHP.
php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"
php -r "if (hash_file('SHA384', 'composer-setup.php') === '544e09ee996cdf60ece3804abc52599c22b1f40f4323403c44d44fdfdd586475ca9813a858088ffbc1f233e9b180f061') { echo 'Installer verified'; } else { echo 'Installer corrupt'; unlink('composer-setup.php'); } echo PHP_EOL;"
php composer-setup.php
php -r "unlink('composer-setup.php');"
sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
Check the Composer version.
composer --version
# Composer version 1.6.3 2018-01-31 16:28:17
Download and install PyroCMS via Composer
Create a document root directory.
sudo mkdir -p /var/www/pyro
Change the ownership of the /var/www/pyro
directory to johndoe
.
sudo chown -R johndoe:johndoe /var/www/pyro
Download the latest stable release of PyroCMS from the command line.
cd /var/www/pyro
composer create-project pyrocms/pyrocms .
NOTE: You may run out of memory when installing Pyro via Composer. It may be wise to stop Nginx, PHP-FPM and MySQL servers with sudo systemctl stop nginx.service php-fpm.service mysql.service
to save on memory usage and start them again after this step.
Change the ownership of the /var/www/pyro
directory to nginx
.
sudo chown -R nginx:nginx /var/www/pyro
Run sudo vim /etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf
and set the user and group to nginx
.
sudo vim /etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf
# user = nginx
# group = nginx
Restart the php-fpm.service
.
sudo systemctl restart php-fpm.service
Using your preferred web browser, open your site and follow the PyroCMS installer. After following the installer you will have PyroCMS up and running. To access the PyroCMS admin area, append /admin
to your site URL.
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