Setup Baun CMS on Ubuntu 16.04 | 17.10 | 18.04 with Nginx, MariaDB and PHP 7.2 Support

Baun CMS works great with Apache2 HTTP server… however, if you want to run it with Nginx, the steps below is a great place to start… We previously showed you how to install and run Baun with Apache2 support… this post is going to describe steps neccessary to run it with Nginx HTTP server….

Baun is an open-source, flat-file content management system (CMS) with slick admin interface…. lightweight codebase and designed with performance in mind….. It offers features that may not be available to other PHP based CMS, like WordPress Joomla or Drupal…

For one, it doesn’t need a database server to function… it’s a flat-file CMS… It also provides native markdown WYSIWYG support, SEO friendly, flexible CSS framework and easily installation and management…

This brief tutorial shows students and new users how to install Baun CMS on Ubuntu 16.04 / 17.10 and 18.04 LTS with Nginx and PHP 7.2 support….

When you’re ready to get Baun working, 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 Baun 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

Step 2: Install PHP 7.2-FPM and Related Modules

PHP 7.2-FPM may not be available in Ubuntu default repositories for some systems…. if you need 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 7.2-FPM

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

Then update and upgrade to PHP 7.2-FPM

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt install php7.2-fpm php7.2-common php7.2-mbstring php7.2-xmlrpc php7.2-soap php7.2-gd php7.2-xml php7.2-cli php7.2-curl php7.2-zip

After installing PHP 7.2, run the commands below to open PHP default config file for Nginx…

sudo nano /etc/php/7.2/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
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: Download Baun Latest Release

Next, visit Baun site and download the latest package…. or run the commands below to install git which is require to download Baun pckages from github….

After downloading, run the commands below to extract the downloaded file and move it into a new Baun root directory.

sudo apt install git curl
cd /tmp && git clone https://github.com/BaunCMS/Baun.git
sudo mv Baun /var/www/html/baun

Next, run the commands below to install composer package and install.. you must have curl package installed for the commands to work.. if not, just run sudo apt install curl to install it…

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | sudo php -- --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer

After that, change into Baun root directory to install PHP required packages…

cd /var/www/html/baun
sudo composer install

Then run the commands below to set the correct permissions for Baun to function properly.

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

Step 5: Configure Nginx Baun Site

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

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

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/baun;
    index  index.php index.html index.htm;
    server_name  example.com www.example.com;

    client_max_body_size 100M;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
       }

    location ~ \.php$ {
    include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
    fastcgi_pass           unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-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 6: Enable the Baun Site

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

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

Restart Nginx

sudo systemctl restart nginx.service

Next, open your browser and browse to the server hostname or IP address and you should see Baun page…

You have successfully installed Baun CMS on Ubuntu….. Follow the link below to learn how to enable the admin portal…

https://bauncms.com/plugins/admin/docs

Enjoy!