Content Management System on BrainyPi

Description: Joomla is a popular open-source content management system that allows you to publish your web content easily. It is very flexible as it helps to manage different types of web content.

Steps to Install:

Just copy and paste the following lines into a terminal:

Setting up NGINX on the Brainy Pi.

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

sudo apt remove apache2

sudo apt install nginx

sudo systemctl start nginx

Configuring NGINX for PHP.

sudo apt install php7.4-fpm php7.4-mbstring php7.4-mysql php7.4-curl php7.4-gd php7.4-curl php7.4-zip php7.4-xml -y

sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default

Find and Replace following lines

Find

index index.html index.htm;

Replace With

index index.php index.html index.htm;

Find

#location ~ \.php$ {
        #       include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
        #
        #       # With php5-cgi alone:
        #       fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
        #       # With php5-fpm:
        #       fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
        #}

Replace With

location ~ \.php$ {
               include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
               fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock;
        }

Once that is all done, we can save and exit by pressing CTRL + X then Y and lastly ENTER.

sudo systemctl reload nginx

To this file, add the following line of code.
Once that is all done, we can save and exit by pressing CTRL + X then Y and lastly ENTER.

To set up MYSQL on Brainy Pi:

Run the following commands.

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

sudo apt install mariadb-server

It will ask several questions, answer Y or n accordingly.

To install Joomla on the Brainy Pi:

sudo apt install php7.4-intl

sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/joomla.conf

Copy and paste the following text into this file.

server {
    listen 80;
    listen [::]:80;

    root /var/www/joomla;

    index index.php index.html index.htm;
    server_name _;

    client_max_body_size 100M;
    autoindex off;
    
    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
    }

    # deny running scripts inside writable directories
    location ~* /(images|cache|media|logs|tmp)/.*.(php|pl|py|jsp|asp|sh|cgi)$ {
      return 403;
      error_page 403 /403_error.html;
    }

    location ~ .php$ {
        include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        include fastcgi_params;
    }

    # caching of files 
    location ~* \.(ico|pdf|flv)$ {
            expires 1y;
    }

    location ~* \.(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|swf|xml|txt)$ {
            expires 14d;
    }
}

sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/joomla.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/joomla.conf

sudo rm /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default

sudo systemctl reload nginx

sudo mysql -u root -p

Enter the following lines

CREATE USER 'joomlausr'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '[PASSWORD]';

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON joomladb.* TO 'joomlausr'@'localhost';

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

quit;

Run the commands

sudo mkdir -p /var/www/joomla

cd /var/www/joomla

sudo wget https://downloads.joomla.org/cms/joomla4/4-0-3/Joomla_4-0-3-Stable-Full_Package.tar.gz

sudo tar -xvf Joomla_4-0-3-Stable-Full_Package.tar.gz

sudo rm Joomla_4-0-3-Stable-Full_Package.tar.gz

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/joomla*

Installation will be completed.

Useful for: Publishing web contents, flexible, ease of use.

Link to original project: https://github.com/joomla

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