Roadiz is a modern Node-based content management system (CMS) that lets you build great websites for any projects. Roadiz also uses Symfony components and Doctrine ORM to leverage data schema and organize your content the way you want.
Students and new users looking for help installing the latest version of Roadiz from GitHub using Composer with Nginx, MariaDB and PHP 7.2-FPM support, the steps below should help them get there.
For more about Roadiz, please check its homepage.
This brief tutorial is going to show students and new users how to install / upgrade Roadiz from GitHub repository via Composer with Nginx, MariaDB and PHP 7.2 support on Ubuntu 16.04 | 18.04 LTS servers.
To get started with installing Roadiz, follow the steps below:
Install Nginx HTTP Server on Ubuntu
Nginx HTTP Server is probably the second most popular web server in use today and Roadiz needs a web server. so go and install it on Ubuntu.
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.
Install MariaDB Database Server
MariaDB database server is a great place to start when looking at open source database servers to use with Roadiz. 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 18.04 and 18.10 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
Install PHP 7.2 and Related Modules
PHP 7.2 may not be available in Ubuntu default repositories. in order to install it, you may 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
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
Then update and upgrade to PHP 7.2
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-gmp php7.2-curl php7.2-intl php7.2-mbstring php7.2-xmlrpc php7.2-mysql php7.2-gd php7.2-xml php7.2-cli 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 short_open_tag = On post_max_size = 20M cgi.fix_pathinfo = 0 memory_limit = 256M upload_max_filesize = 100M max_execution_time = 360 max_input_vars = 1500 date.timezone = America/Chicago
After making the change above, save the file and close out.
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
To test PHP 7.2 settings with Nginx, create a phpinfo.php file in Nginx root directory by running the commands below
sudo nano /var/www/html/phpinfo.php
Then type the content below and save the file.
<?php phpinfo( ); ?>
Save the file. then browse to your server hostname followed by /phpinfo.php
/phpinfo.php
You should see PHP default test page.
Create Roadiz Database
Now that you’ve installed all the packages that are required for Roadiz to function, continue below to start configuring the servers. First run the commands below to create a blank Roadiz database.
To logon to MariaDB database server, run the commands below.
sudo mysql -u root -p
Then create a database called roadiz
CREATE DATABASE roadiz;
Create a database user called roadizuser with new password
CREATE USER 'roadizuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'new_password_here';
Then grant the user full access to the database.
GRANT ALL ON roadiz.* TO 'roadizuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'user_password_here' WITH GRANT OPTION;
Finally, save your changes and exit.
FLUSH PRIVILEGES; EXIT;
Next, run the commands below to open MariaDB default config file…
sudo nano /etc/mysql/mariadb.conf.d/50-server.cnf
Then add the lines below and save…
innodb_file_format = Barracuda innodb_large_prefix = 1 innodb_default_row_format = dynamic
Restart MariaDB after that…
sudo systemctl restart mariadb.service sudo systemctl restart mysql.service
Continue below….
Download Roadiz Latest Release
To get Roadiz latest release you may want to use Github repository. Install Composer, Curl and other dependencies to get started.
sudo apt install curl git curl -sS | sudo php -- --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer
After installing curl and Composer above, change into the Nginx root directory and download Roadiz packages from Github.
cd /var/www/html sudo composer create-project roadiz/standard-edition roadiz cd roadiz sudo composer install
Then run the commands below to set the correct permissions and give Nginx user ownership of the directory.
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/roadiz/ sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/roadiz/
Configure Nginx
Finally, configure Nginx site configuration file for Roadiz. This file will control how users access Roadiz content. Run the commands below to create a new configuration file called roadiz
sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/roadiz
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/roadiz;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
server_name example.com www.example.com;
client_max_body_size 100M;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
}
Save the file and exit.
Enable the Roadiz
After configuring the VirtualHost above, enable it by running the commands below
sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/roadiz /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/ sudo systemctl restart nginx.service
Finally, open your browser and browse to the server domain name. You should see Roadiz setup wizard to complete. Please follow the wizard carefully.
Then follow the on-screen instructions and select the installation language here.
Next, verify all requirements are met, then continue with the setup.
On the next screen, type in the database name, user and password created above and continue.
Continue to create a new theme file. and continue
Save the information and continue
Create an admin account and complete the setup.
After that, Roadiz CMS should be installed and ready to use. Now Roadiz installation is completed you can remove the install.php script from Roadiz folder and access to your fresh website without it.
sudo rm /var/www/html/roadiz/web/install/php
Logon to the backend.
Congratulation! You have successfully installed Roadiz on Ubuntu 16.04 | 18.04
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