How to Install Winter CMS with LAMP Stack on Debian 11
Winter is a free, open-source content management system based on the Laravel PHP framework. Developers and agencies all around the world rely upon Winter for its quick prototyping and development, safe and secure codebase, and dedication to simplicity. In this article, we are going to learn how to install Winter CMS on Debian 11. So, let’s get started.
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Pre-requisites :
-
A system with Debian 11 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 Winter 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 ccwintercms;
CREATE USER 'ccwintercms'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'UYGVc%$#Erfgt*&^%4';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON ccwintercms.* TO 'ccwintercms'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
QUIT
The above commands will give complete access to the user
ccwintercms
. We would suggest using a strong and long password.
Configuring Apache vHost
Now, create a new Apache configuration file dev.domainhere.info.conf
for Winter CMS with the following command.
Replace
dev.domainhere.info
with the domain name of your own for all the below code examples:
vi /etc/apache2/sites-available/dev.domainhere.info.conf
Now, press i
to go to INSERT
mode and type in the following lines of codes in the dev.domainhere.info.conf
file.
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName dev.domainhere.info
ServerAlias dev.domainhere.info
ServerAdmin admin@dev.domainhere.info
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/wintercms
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/dev.domainhere.info_error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/dev.domainhere.info_access.log combined
<Directory /var/www/html/wintercms/>
Options FollowSymlinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Now make directory for Winter CMS files:
mkdir -p /var/www/html/wintercms/
Enable SSL and Rewrite:
a2ensite dev.domainhere.info
a2enmod rewrite ssl
Restart Apache:
systemctl restart apache2
Enable http and https ( 80/443 )
To enable http and https connection through the firewall, follow the commands:
ufw allow 80/tcp
ufw allow 443/tcp
Download Winter CMS
Let's download Winter CMS:
cd /etc/www/html/wintercms
wget https://github.com/wintercms/web-installer/releases/latest/download/install.zip
unzip install.zip
chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/wintercms/
chmod -R 775 /var/www/html/wintercms/
Configuring Winter CMS
Now open the domain name with a /install.html from your browser, this will redirect you to configuring the final parts of the Winter CMS installation.
https://dev.domainhere.info/install.html
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 Winter CMS with LAMP Stack on Debian 11.
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