Fuel CMS is a powerful content management system (CMS) that allows you to easily create and manage web content. In this article, we will explain how to install Fuel CMS on Rocky Linux 8.
Before we begin, it’s important to note that this tutorial assumes that you already have a Rocky Linux 8 system up and running, and that you are logged in as a user with sudo privileges.
Install the php-gd
and php-mbstring
packages
Fuel CMS requires the php-gd
and php-mbstring
packages in order to run. To install these packages, run the following command:
sudo yum install php-gd php-mbstring
Download and extract the Fuel CMS files
Next, you need to download the Fuel CMS files and extract them to the desired location on your system. The easiest way to do this is to use the wget
utility to download the Fuel CMS archive, and the tar
utility to extract it.
First, use wget
to download the Fuel CMS archive:
wget <https://github.com/daylightstudio/FUEL-CMS/archive/1.8.3.tar.gz>
Replace 1.8.3
with the latest version of Fuel CMS.
Next, use the tar
utility to extract the Fuel CMS files:
tar xvf 1.8.3.tar.gz
This will extract the Fuel CMS files to the FUEL-CMS-1.8.3
directory.
Configure the httpd
service
Now that the Fuel CMS files are in place, the next step is to configure the httpd
service to serve the Fuel CMS website. To do this, you need to create a virtual host configuration file for the Fuel CMS website.
First, create a new file called fuel-cms.conf
in the /etc/httpd/conf.d
directory:
sudo touch /etc/httpd/conf.d/fuel-cms.conf
Next, open the fuel-cms.conf
file in a text editor:
sudo nano /etc/httpd/conf.d/fuel-cms.conf
And add the following content to the file:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName fuel-cms.local
DocumentRoot /path/to/FUEL-CMS-1.8.3/public
<Directory /path/to/FUEL-CMS-1.8.3/public>
Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/fuel-cms-error.log
CustomLog /var/log/httpd/fuel-cms-access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Replace /path/to/FUEL-CMS-1.8.3/public
with the actual path to the public
directory of the Fuel CMS installation.
Once you have added the virtual host configuration, save the file and close the text editor.
Configure the hosts
file
To access the Fuel CMS website, you need to configure your hosts
file to point the fuel-cms.local
domain to your local system. To do this, open the /etc/hosts
file in a text editor:
sudo nano /etc/hosts
And add the following line to the end of the file:
127.0.0.1 fuel-cms.local
This will map the fuel-cms.local
domain to the local IP address (127.0.0.1
) on your system. Save the file and close the text editor.
Start the httpd
service
Now that the httpd
service is configured and the hosts
file is updated, you can start the httpd
service by running the following command:
sudo systemctl start httpd
This will start the httpd
service and make the Fuel CMS website available at the http://fuel-cms.local
URL.
Complete the Fuel CMS installation
To complete the Fuel CMS installation, open a web browser and navigate to the http://fuel-cms.local
URL. This will open the Fuel CMS installation wizard, which will guide you through the process of setting up the database and configuring the Fuel CMS website.
Follow the instructions in the installation wizard to complete the Fuel CMS installation. Once the installation is complete, you will be able to log in to the Fuel CMS admin panel and start managing your web content.
In conclusion, installing Fuel CMS on Rocky Linux 8 is a straightforward process that involves downloading and extracting the Fuel CMS files, configuring the httpd
service, and completing the installation wizard. By following the steps outlined in this article, you can easily set up Fuel CMS on your Rocky Linux 8 system and start managing your web content.