Install Fuel CMS on Ubuntu 16.04 / 17.10 / 18.04 with Nginx, MariaDB and PHP 7.1 Support
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Install Fuel CMS on Ubuntu 16.04 / 17.10 / 18.04 with Nginx, MariaDB and PHP 7.1 Support

Fuel CMS, a CMS platform that editors should love also supports Nginx HTTP server… In our recent post, we showed you how to install Fuel CMS with Apache2 support… well, this post shows you how to run Fuel with Nginx instead…

To get Fuel CMS working with Nginx, the steps below should be a great place to start…

Fuel CMS is an open source content management system for premium-grade websites and blogs…. It built on CodeIgniter, a popular PHP web framework for advanced web development…

Whether you’re creating a personal or business website, Fuel CMS can help you create and manage your content on every device with its intuitive and powerful admin dashboard…

This brief tutorial is going to show students and new users how to install Fuel CMS on Ubuntu 16.04 / 17.10 and 18.04.

If you currently runing your website and content on other CMS like WordPress, Drupal and Joomla you may want to give Fuel CMS a try… It’s a great alternative to those PHP based content mangement systems.

For more on Fuel CMS , please vist its home page

When you’re ready to get Fuel CMS working on Ubuntu, please continue with the steps below:

Step 1: Install Nginx HTTP Server on Ubuntu

Nginx HTTP Server is the second most popular web server in use… so install it, since Fuel CMS needs it..

To install Nginx HTTP on Ubuntu server, run the commands below…

sudo apt update
sudo apt install nginx

After installing Nginx, the commands below can be used to stop, start and enable Nginx service to always start up with the server boots.

sudo systemctl stop nginx.service
sudo systemctl start nginx.service
sudo systemctl enable nginx.service

To test Nginx setup, open your browser and browse to the server hostname or IP address and you should see Nginx default test page as shown below.. When you see that, then Nginx is working as expected..

http://localhost

nginx default home page test

Step 2: Install MariaDB Database Server

MariaDB database server is a great place to start when looking at open source database servers to use with Magento… To install MariaDB run the commands below…

sudo apt-get install mariadb-server mariadb-client

After installing MariaDB, the commands below can be used to stop, start and enable MariaDB service to always start up when the server boots..

Run these on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

sudo systemctl stop mysql.service
sudo systemctl start mysql.service
sudo systemctl enable mysql.service

Run these on Ubuntu 17.10 and 18.04 LTS

sudo systemctl stop mariadb.service
sudo systemctl start mariadb.service
sudo systemctl enable mariadb.service

After that, run the commands below to secure MariaDB server by creating a root password and disallowing remote root access.

sudo mysql_secure_installation

When prompted, answer the questions below by following the guide.

  • Enter current password for root (enter for none): Just press the Enter
  • Set root password? [Y/n]: Y
  • New password: Enter password
  • Re-enter new password: Repeat password
  • Remove anonymous users? [Y/n]: Y
  • Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n]: Y
  • Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n]:  Y
  • Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n]:  Y

Restart MariaDB server

To test if MariaDB is installed, type the commands below to logon to MariaDB server

sudo mysql -u root -p

Then type the password you created above to sign on… if successful, you should see MariaDB welcome message

mariadb welcome

Step 3: Install PHP 7.1-FPM and Related Modules

PHP 7.1 may not be available in Ubuntu default repositories… in order to install it, you will have to get it from third-party repositories.

Run the commands below to add the below third party repository to upgrade to PHP 7.1-FPM

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php

Then update and upgrade to PHP 7.1-FPM

sudo apt update

Next, run the commands below to install PHP 7.2 and related modules.

sudo apt install php7.1-fpm php7.1-common php7.1-sqlite3 php7.1-mcrypt php7.1-curl php7.1-intl php7.1-mbstring php7.1-xmlrpc php7.1-mysql php7.1-gd php7.1-xml php7.1-cli php7.1-zip

After installing PHP 7.1, run the commands below to open PHP default config file for Nginx…

sudo nano /etc/php/7.1/fpm/php.ini

Then make the changes on the following lines below in the file and save. The value below are great settings to apply in your environments.

file_uploads = On
allow_url_fopen = On
short_open_tag = On
memory_limit = 256M
upload_max_filesize = 100M
max_execution_time = 360
date.timezone = America/Chicago

After making the change above, save the file and close out.

Step 3: Restart Nginx

After installing PHP and related modules, all you have to do is restart Nginx to reload PHP configurations…

To restart Nginx, run the commands below

sudo systemctl restart nginx.service

Step 4: Create Feul CMS Database

Now that you’ve installed all the packages that are required for Fuel CMS to function, continue below to start configuring the servers. First run the commands below to create a blank Magento database.

To logon to MariaDB database server, run the commands below.

sudo mysql -u root -p

Then create a database called fuelcms

CREATE DATABASE fuelcms;

Create a database user called fueluser with new password

CREATE USER 'fueluser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'new_password_here';

Then grant the user full access to the database.

GRANT ALL ON fuelcms.* TO 'fueluser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'user_password_here' WITH GRANT OPTION;

Finally, save your changes and exit.

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;

Step 5: Download and Install Fuel CMS

Run the commands below to download Fuel CMS latest (1.4.2) content… then unzip the download file and move the content to Nginx default root directory…

cd /tmp && wget https://github.com/daylightstudio/FUEL-CMS/archive/master.zip
unzip master.zip
sudo mv FUEL-CMS-master /var/www/html/fuelcms

Next, run the commands below to change the root folder permissions…

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/fuelcms/
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/fuelcms/

Step 6: Configure Nginx Fuel CMS Site

Finally, configure Nginx configuration file for Fuel CMS . This file will control how users access Fuel CMS content. Run the commands below to create a new configuration file called fuelcms

sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/fuelcms

Then copy and paste the content below into the file and save it. Replace the highlighted line with your own domain name and directory root location.

server {
    listen 80;
    listen [::]:80;
    root /var/www/html/fuelcms;
    index  index.php index.html index.htm;
    server_name  example.com www.example.com;

    client_max_body_size 100M;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?q=$uri&$args;
       }

    location ~ \.php$ {
    include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
    fastcgi_pass           unix:/var/run/php/php7.1-fpm.sock;
    fastcgi_param   SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
     }

}

Save the file and exit.

After configuring the VirtualHost above, enable it by running the commands below

Step 7: Enable the Fuel CMS Site and Rewrite Module

After configuring the VirtualHost above, enable it by running the commands below, then restart Nginx server…

sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/fuelcms /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
sudo systemctl restart nginx.service

Next, open your brwoser and go to the URL.. and continue with the installation….

http://example.com/

When you browse to the server hostname, you should see 4 steps to getting Fuel CMS configured… start with Step 2 ….

FuelCMS Ubuntu Install

Continue with the setup instructions below to complete the installation…

For step 2, run the commands below to import the fuel_schema.sql into the newly created database above…

sudo mysql -u fueluser -p fuelcms < /var/www/html/fuelcms/fuel/install/fuel_schema.sql

Next, go to Step 4 and complete the below setup..

In the fuel/application/config/config.php, change the $config[‘encryption_key’] to your own unique key.

sudo nano /var/www/html/fuelcms/fuel/application/config/config.php

You can use openssl tool to generate random key… Run the commands below to generate a random key using openssl tool…

openssl rand -base64 20

The copy the value into the line below…  you can replace the number 20 with any…

$config['encryption_key'] = 'DzUdCphy+uIAlOSgI7+TO4bTc6Y=';

Next, enable the admin logon by changing the line below to True

Run the commands below to open the file…

sudo nano /var/www/html/fuelcms/fuel/application/config/MY_fuel.php

Then make the below change…and save…

// whether the admin backend is enabled or not
$config['admin_enabled'] = TRUE;
....
$config['fuel_mode'] = 'AUTO';

FuelCMS Ubuntu setup install

Save your changes…

To access the FUEL admin, go to:
http://example.com/fuel
User name: admin
Password: admin

(you can and should change this password and admin user information after logging in)

Enjoy!

FuelCMS Ubuntu setup

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This post was not written by a robot. I spend my spare time searching for ways to help students and new users get to know and understand Linux, Ubuntu, Windows, and Open Source software. ~Enjoy!

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