LocomotiveCMS is a simple Open Source content management system (CMS) that makes it super easy to develop and design static websites.
It helps you create your personal or business websites in minutes by creating markup pages and content.. LocomotiveCMS offers features that may not be available to other PHP based CMS, like WordPress Joomla or Drupal.
For one it doesn’t require a database and you don’t have to worry about comments management and frequent updates. All you do is write your content and its instantly published. Other features like permalinks, categories, pages, posts, and custom layouts are all top content and SEO friendly.
This brief tutorial is going to show students and new users how to install LocomotiveCMS on Ubuntu 16.04 | 18.04 and 18.10 systems.These are the packages we’re going to be setting up.
- Ruby version 2.5.3
- Rails version 5.2.1
- MariaDB
Step 1: Installing Ruby
To install Ruby and Rails on Ubuntu, you’ll need to install some dependencies. To make that happen, install Node.js and Yarn repositories. This will make installing the dependencies easier.
First install these curl and git packages.
sudo apt update sudo apt install curl git
Than run the commands below to add Node.js and Yarn repositories and keys to your system. Then install some core packages to get your environment going.
curl -sL | sudo -E bash - curl -sS | sudo apt-key add - echo "deb stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yarn.list sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install nodejs yarn zlib1g-dev build-essential libssl-dev libreadline-dev libyaml-dev libsqlite3-dev sqlite3 libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev software-properties-common libffi-dev
When you’re done. continue below:
After adding the repositories and installing necessary packages above, install Ruby with your local profile settings using rbenv. you’ll then use rbenv to install ruby-build.
cd ~/ git clone ~/.rbenv echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc echo 'eval "$(rbenv init -)"' >> ~/.bashrc exec $SHELL git clone ~/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc exec $SHELL
After setting up your local profile. run the commands below to install Ruby version 2.5.3. If a newer version is available, replace the version number to that. vist this site to find out Ruby latest versions.
rbenv install 2.5.3 rbenv global 2.5.3
To verify that Ruby is installed, run the commands below:
ruby -v
You should see similar lines as below:
ruby 2.5.3p105 (2018-10-18 revision 65156) [x86_64-linux]
Another package management you’ll want to install is bundler. to do that, run the commands below
gem install bundler
Now run the command below after installing bundler.
rbenv rehash
Step 2: Install Rails
Now that Ruby environment is set up, run the commands below to install Rails. Rails can be installed from a Node.Js. Run the commands below to install Node.js repository, then install Node.js package.
curl -sL | sudo -E bash - sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
Now that Node.js is installed, run the commands below to install Rails.
gem install rails -v 5.2.1
Don’t forget to rehash your rbenv environment installing install new packages.
rbenv rehash
To verify if Rails is installed, run the commands below.
rails -v
You should see something similar to the lines below:
Rails 5.2.1
Step 3: Install LocomotiveCMS
Now that your environment is ready, run the commands below to install LocomotiveCMS and build your first site. Next, run the commands below
gem install locomotivecms_wagon
To verify the version you’re running, type the commands below
wagon version
After that run the commands below to create a new site called example.com in your home directory.
mkdir -p ~/example.com cd ~/example.com wagon init example.com -t bootstrap # Use y or n when questions are promted cd example.com bundle install
Finally, run the commands below to start the server.
bundle exec wagon serve
It should start on the local IP followed by port 3333
Your site is served now. Browse
That’s it!
Now open your browser and browse to the server hostname or IP followed by port 3333
You should see the page below:
That’s it!
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