can't install Concrete5

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At first I was worried that you were having issues because the tutorial was outdated, but I just tried it myself and it worked, let me walk you through my process: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