I just created a droplet (collab-cards), requested the Ubuntu LAMP stack, am trying to install Concrete5. The online help says “So let’s navigate to the Apache web server root directory first: cd /var/www”
Except there is no ‘www’ inside /var.
Someone tells me this means the LAMP stack didn’t get set up. But I can’t see what is or isn’t there, how to add a LAMP stack if it’s not there, can’t tell what I didn’t wrong along the way, and can’t see how to proceed.
No tutorial I can find online tells me what to do here, it’s been 2 hours I’ve been hunting.
Some tips would be really appreciated at this point, thank you – Alistair
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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At first I was worried that you were having issues because the tutorial was outdated, but I just tried it myself and it worked, let me walk you through my process:
- 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.
- Login to the new droplet - when you login you will see some vital information, including the mysql root password, SAVE THIS FOR LATER.
- Confirm that you have LAMP installed - Now you should be taken to the proper directory with:
cd /var/www
- Copy the latest concrete5 zip to your server
wget --trust-server-names https://www.concrete5.org/download_file/-/view/90125/ -O concrete5.zip
- Download unzip utility and then unzip the file
apt-get install unzip
and then
unzip concrete5.zip
- Give it a simpler folder name, then navigate into the folder
mv concrete5.7.5.9 concrete5
cd concrete5
- Next you will need to enable
mod_rewrite- An Apache module that helps with URL rewriting rules
a2enmod rewrite
- 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.confOpen 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>
- Now close and save the file with a ctrl-x and Y, and restart apache with:
sudo service apache2 restart
- 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;
- 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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