Hey @totheralistair -

At first I was worried that you were having issues because the tutorial was outdated, but I just tried it myself and it worked, let me walk you through my process:

1. Spin up a 1GB LAMP One-Click (a DO Droplet with LAMP pre-installed) - here is a link to the droplet page with everything pre-selected, I also recommend adding an SSH Key so that you don’t have to rely on passwords alone to login.
2. Login to the new droplet - when you login you will see some vital information, including the mysql root password, SAVE THIS FOR LATER.
3. Confirm that you have LAMP installed - Now you should be taken to the proper directory with: cd /var/www
4. Copy the latest concrete5 zip to your server wget --trust-server-names https://www.concrete5.org/download_file/-/view/90125/ -O concrete5.zip
5. Download unzip utility and then unzip the file apt-get install unzip and then unzip concrete5.zip

6. Give it a simpler folder name, then navigate into the folder

   mv concrete5.7.5.9 concrete5
   cd concrete5
   

7. Next you will need to enable mod_rewrite - An Apache module that helps with URL rewriting rules

   a2enmod rewrite
   

8. Next you will need to allow concrete5 to set URL rewriting rules by changing the apache config - on this oneclick the default file is called 000-default.conf
   Open the file by typing…

   nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf
   

   Important: Change the line that says DocumentRoot /var/www/html to DocumentRoot /var/www/concrete5. Then, paste this entire block of code before the </virtualserver> closing tag.

   <Directory /var/www/concrete5>
       Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
       AllowOverride All
       Order allow,deny
       allow from all
   </Directory>
   

9. Now close and save the file with a ctrl-x and Y, and restart apache with:

   sudo service apache2 restart
   

10. Login to mysql to create the database

    mysql -u root -p
    

    you will be prompted for a password, use the one that was printed out when you first logged in to the droplet. Then create the db with:

    create database concrete5;
    

11. Give concrete5 write permissions to the folders it needs to control

    chown -R root:www-data application/files/
    chown -R root:www-data application/config/
    chown -R root:www-data packages/
    chmod -R 775 application/files/
    chmod -R 775 application/config/
    chmod -R 775 packages/
    

Now, go to your droplet’s IP Address in a browser, (or if you setup DNS use the domain name) it should be running and walking you through the CMS startup process!!!

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