Roadiz is a modern CMS designed to handle many types of services. Based on Symfony components and Doctrine ORM, it allows you to create your data schema from scratch and to organize your content as desired. In this guide, we will install Roadiz on a fresh Ubuntu 18.04 Rcs instance.
Requirements
- Nginx or Apache. In this guide we will use Nginx
- MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL or SQLite database. In this guide we will use MariaDB
- Composer
- Git
- PHP version 7.1 or greater with the following extensions:
php-gd
php-intl
php-xml
php-curl
php-json
php-mbstring
php-opcache
php-apcu
Before you begin
Check the Ubuntu version.
lsb_release -ds
# Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Create a new non-root
user account with sudo
access and switch to it.
adduser johndoe --gecos "John Doe"
usermod -aG sudo johndoe
su - johndoe
NOTE: Replace johndoe
with your username.
Set up the timezone.
sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
Ensure that your system is up to date.
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
Install needed packages.
sudo apt install -y zip unzip curl wget git
Install PHP
Install PHP, as well as the necessary PHP extensions.
sudo apt install -y php7.2 php7.2-cli php7.2-fpm php7.2-common php7.2-mysql php7.2-mbstring php7.2-gd php7.2-intl php7.2-xml php7.2-curl php7.2-zip php7.2-pgsql php7.2-sqlite3 php7.2-opcache php-apcu
Check the version.
php --version
# PHP 7.2.7-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 (cli) (built: Jul 4 2018 16:55:24) ( NTS )
# Copyright (c) 1997-2018 The PHP Group
# Zend Engine v3.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2018 Zend Technologies
# with Zend OPcache v7.2.7-0ubuntu0.18.04.2, Copyright (c) 1999-2018, by Zend Technologies
Make the following changes in /etc/php/7.2/fpm/php.ini
and /etc/php/7.2/cli/php.ini
.
memory_limit = 64M
post_max_size = 16M
upload_max_filesize = 16M
date.timezone
After making changes in those two files, restart PHP-FPM.
sudo systemctl restart php7.2-fpm.service
Install MySQL and create a database
Install MySQL.
sudo apt install -y mysql-server
Check the version.
mysql --version && sudo mysqld --version
# mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.7.23, for Linux (x86_64) using EditLine wrapper
# mysqld Ver 5.7.23-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 for Linux on x86_64 ((Ubuntu))
Run mysql_secure installation
to improve security and set the password for the root
user.
sudo mysql_secure_installation
Would you like to setup VALIDATE PASSWORD plugin? N
Please set the password for root here.
New password: **********************
Re-enter new password: **********************
Remove anonymous users? Y
Disallow root login remotely? Y
Remove test database and access to it? Y
Reload privilege tables now? Y
Success.
All done!
Log into MySQL as the root user.
sudo mysql -u root -p
# Enter password
Create a new database and user that you will use for your installation of Roadiz, and remember the credentials.
CREATE DATABASE dbname;
GRANT ALL ON dbname.* TO 'username' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
quit
Install and configure Nginx
Install Nginx.
sudo apt install -y nginx
Check the version.
sudo nginx -v
# nginx version: nginx/1.14.0 (Ubuntu)
Run sudo vim /etc/nginx/sites-available/roadiz.conf
and populate the file with the following configuration.
server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
server_name example.com; # Check this
root /var/www/roadiz/web; # Check this
index index.php;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
}
location ~ ^/(dev|install|preview|clear_cache)\.php(/|$) {
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.*)$;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $realpath_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param DOCUMENT_ROOT $realpath_root;
}
location ~ ^/index\.php(/|$) {
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.*)$;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $realpath_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param DOCUMENT_ROOT $realpath_root;
internal;
}
}
Activate the new roadiz.conf
configuration by linking the file to the sites-enabled
directory.
sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/roadiz.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
Test the configuration.
sudo nginx -t
Reload Nginx.
sudo systemctl reload nginx.service
Install Composer
Install Composer globally.
php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"
php -r "if (hash_file('sha384', 'composer-setup.php') === '48e3236262b34d30969dca3c37281b3b4bbe3221bda826ac6a9a62d6444cdb0dcd0615698a5cbe587c3f0fe57a54d8f5') { echo 'Installer verified'; } else { echo 'Installer corrupt'; unlink('composer-setup.php'); } echo PHP_EOL;"
php composer-setup.php
php -r "unlink('composer-setup.php');"
sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
Check the version.
composer --version
# Composer version 1.7.2 2018-08-16 16:57:12
Install Roadiz
Create a document root directory.
sudo mkdir -p /var/www/roadiz
Change ownership of the /var/www/roadiz
directory to johndoe
.
sudo chown -R johndoe:johndoe /var/www/roadiz
Navigate to the document root directory.
cd /var/www/roadiz
Create a new Roadiz project with Composer.
composer create-project roadiz/standard-edition .
NOTE: If your system has less than 1GB memory, you may run into errors when running composer create-project
command. To overcome this, configure a larger amount of swap memory or scale your server vertically.
Change ownership of the /var/www/roadiz
directory to www-data
.
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/roadiz
For security reasons, Roadiz uses an IP filtering for install.php
file. To be able to access it, run sudo vim /var/www/roadiz/web/install.php
and add your IP address to the $allowedIp
array.
$allowedIp = [
'10.0.2.2',
'192.168.33.1',
'127.0.0.1', 'fe80::1', '::1', ':ffff:127.0.0.1', '::ffff:127.0.0.1',
'YOUR_IP_ADDRESS_HERE'
]
Open http://example.com/install.php
in your web browser and follow the instructions to install Roadiz CMS.
When Roadiz installation is completed you can remove the install.php
script.
sudo rm /var/www/roadiz/web/install.php
To access Roadiz admin, append /rz-admin
to your site's URL.