How to Install Concrete5 CMS with Apache on Ubuntu 20.04

Concrete5 is an open-source content management system used to publish content on the internet. It is written in PHP and uses MariaDB as a database backend. It provides an easy-to-use builder that helps you to create pages and content through the web browser. It is flexible, secure, mobile-ready, and based on Model-View-Controller architecture. It offers a rich set of features including, WYSIWYG content editor, Media Manager, Drag and Drop Content, In-context editing, and many more.

In this video, we will show you how to install Concrete5 CMS with Apache on Ubuntu 20.04 server.

Useful Links:
VPS/VDS – https://www.mivocloud.com/
Concrete5 – https://www.concretecms.com/

Commands Used:
apt-get install apache2 mariadb-server php libapache2-mod-php libapache2-mod-php php-common php-mbstring php-xmlrpc php-soap php-gd php-xml php-intl php-mysql php-cli php-ldap php-zip php-curl -y
nano /etc/php/7.4/apache2/php.ini
systemctl restart apache2
mysql
CREATE DATABASE concrete5;
CREATE USER ‘concrete5user’@’localhost’ IDENTIFIED BY ‘password’;
GRANT ALL ON concrete5.* TO ‘concrete5user’@’localhost’ IDENTIFIED BY ‘password’ WITH GRANT OPTION;
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;
wget –trust-server-names https://www.concrete5.org/download_file/-/view/115589/ -O concrete5.zip
unzip concrete5.zip
mv concrete5-* /var/www/html/concrete5
chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/concrete5/
chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/concrete5/
nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/concrete5.conf

VirtualHost *:80
ServerAdmin [email protected]
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/concrete5/
ServerName concrete5.example.com

Directory /var/www/html/concrete5/
Options +FollowSymlinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
/Directory

ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

/VirtualHost

a2ensite concrete5.conf
a2enmod rewrite
systemctl restart apache2
systemctl status apache2