How to Install Microweber CMS with LAMP Stack on AlmaLinux 8

Microweber is a Drag and Drop website builder and a powerful next-generation CMS. It's based on the PHP Laravel Framework. You can use Microweber to make any kind of website, online store, and blog. The Drag and Drop technology allows you to build your website without any technical knowledge. Microweber CMS simplifies this task as much, as possible. In this article, we are going to learn how to install Microweber CMS on AlmaLinux 8. So, let’s get started.

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Pre-requisites :

  • A system with AlmaLinux 8 installed and running.

  • root access to the system.

  • LAMP Stack installed and running, for this, you can refer to one of our guides on installing the LAMP Stack (Apache, MariaDB, and PHP).

Once you're all set, we'll proceed with Microweber CMS installation and configuration.

Create Database

Let us begin with creating a Database and a user. We will then grant the required privileges to the user so it can interact with the Database.

mysql -u root

CREATE DATABASE crowncloud;

CREATE USER 'crowncloud'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'YOUR-PASSWORD-HERE';

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON crowncloud.* TO 'crowncloud'@'localhost';

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

QUIT

The above commands will give complete access to the user crowncloud. Replace YOUR-PASSWORD-HERE with a safe and secure password.

Configuring Apache vHost

Create a new folder named Microweber CMS under the public folder.

mkdir -p /var/www/html/Microweber

Create a new apache configuration file dev.domainhere.info.conf for the domain with the following command:

vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/dev.domainhere.info.conf

Add the following codes:

<VirtualHost *:80>

ServerName dev.domainhere.info
ServerAlias dev.domainhere.info
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/Microweber

<Directory /var/www/html/Microweber/>
    Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
</Directory>

ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/dev.domainhere.info-error.log
CustomLog /var/log/httpd/dev.domainhere.info-access.log combined

</VirtualHost>

Change dev.domainhere.info with Your Domain Name.

Now, press the Esc key, and type in :wq! and press the Enter key to save and exit the file.

Now, restart & check the apache with the following commands:

systemctl restart httpd

systemctl status httpd

Enable Firewall:

firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=http

firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=https

firewall-cmd --reload

Install Let's Encrypt SSL Certificate

Next we will install Let's Encrypt SSL cert so we can have the domain running on HTTPS.
You can refer the following link for instructions on how to. Install Let's Encrypt.

Download Microweber CMS

Download Microweber CMS from official website : Click here.

cd /var/www/html/Microweber

wget https://updater.microweberapi.com/microweber-master.zip

unzip microweber-master.zip

rm microweber-master.zip

Setting up File Permissions

Let's make the folders readable.

chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/Microweber

chown -R apache:apache  /var/www/html/Microweber

chcon -R -t httpd_sys_content_rw_t /var/www/html/Microweber

Restart Apache

Restart apache to avoid getting error messages.

systemctl restart httpd

Configuring Microweber CMS

Now open the domain name from your browser, this will redirect you to configuring the final parts of the Microweber CMS installation.

https://dev.domainhere.info

Replace the dev.domainhere.info with the actual IP or domain configured on the server.

Input the Database details which was configured earlier. Follow the below steps:

Now you have successfully installed Microweber CMS with LAMP Stack on AlmaLinux 8.