How to Install Osclass on Fedora 28
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Osclass is an open source project that allows you to easily create a classified site without any technical knowledge. Its source code is hosted on Github. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Osclass on a Fedora 28 server.
Requirements
- PHP version 5.6 or greater
- MySQLi and GD modules for PHP
- MariaDB database
- Nginx
Before you begin
Check the Fedora version.
cat /etc/fedora-release# Fedora release 28 (Twenty Eight)
Create a new non-root user account with sudo
access and switch to it.
useradd -c "John Doe" johndoe && passwd johndoeusermod -aG wheel johndoesu - johndoe
NOTE: Replace johndoe
with your username.
Ensure that your system is up to date.
sudo dnf check-upgrade || sudo dnf upgrade -y
Set up the timezone.
timedatectl list-timezonessudo timedatectl set-timezone 'Region/City'
Install necessary packages.
sudo dnf install -y curl git wget vim unzip bash-completion
For simplicity, disable SELinux and Firewall.
sudo setenforce 0 ; sudo systemctl stop firewalld ; sudo systemctl disable firewalld
Install PHP
Install PHP and required PHP extensions.
sudo dnf install -y php php-cli php-fpm php-common php-mysqlnd php-gd php-xml
Check the version.
php --version# PHP 7.2.8 (cli) (built: Jul 17 2018 05:35:43) ( NTS )
Start and enable PHP-FPM.
sudo systemctl start php-fpm.servicesudo systemctl enable php-fpm.service
Install MariaDB and create a database
Install MariaDB.
sudo dnf install -y mariadb-server
Check the version.
mysql --version# mysql Ver 15.1 Distrib 10.2.16-MariaDB, for Linux (x86_64) using readline 5.1
Start and enable MariaDB.
sudo systemctl start mariadb.servicesudo systemctl enable mariadb.service
Run the mysql_secure_installation
script to improve the security of your MariaDB installation.
sudo mysql_secure_installation
Log into MariaDB as the root user.
mysql -u root -p# Enter password:
Create a new MariaDB database and user for Osclass. Remember the credentials for this new user.
CREATE DATABASE dbname;GRANT ALL ON dbname.* TO 'username' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';FLUSH PRIVILEGES;exit
Install and configure Nginx
Install Nginx.
sudo dnf install -y nginx
Check the version.
nginx -v# nginx version: nginx/1.12.1
Start and enable Nginx.
sudo systemctl start nginx.servicesudo systemctl enable nginx.service
Configure Nginx for Osclass. Run sudo vim /etc/nginx/conf.d/osclass.conf
and add the following configuration.
server { listen 80; listen [::]:80; server_name example.com; # Check this root /var/www/osclass; # Check this index index.php index.html index.htm; location / { try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args; } location ~ /.(php|phar)(/.*)?$ { fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+/.(?:php|phar))(/.*)$; fastcgi_intercept_errors on; fastcgi_index index.php; include fastcgi_params; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name; fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info; fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php-fpm/www.sock; # Check this }}
Test the configuration.
sudo nginx -t
Reload Nginx.
sudo systemctl reload nginx.service
Install Osclass
Create a document root directory.
sudo mkdir -p /var/www/osclass
Change the ownership of the /var/www/osclass
directory to johndoe
.
sudo chown -R johndoe:johndoe /var/www/osclass
Download and unzip the Osclass package.
cd /var/www/osclasswget https://static.osclass.org/download/osclass.3.8.0.zipunzip osclass.3.8.0.ziprm osclass.3.8.0.zip
Change the ownership of the /var/www/osclass
directory to nginx
.
sudo chown -R nginx:nginx /var/www/osclass
Create the /var/lib/php/session/
directory and change the ownership to nginx
.
sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/php/session/ && sudo chown -R nginx:nginx /var/lib/php/session/
Run sudo vim /etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf
and set the user and group to nginx
. Initially, it will be set to apache
.
sudo vim /etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf# user = nginx# group = nginx
Restart PHP-FPM.
sudo systemctl restart php-fpm.service
Finally, open your favorite web browser and navigate to the URL http://your-server-ip/index.php
or http://yourdomain.com/index.php
. Complete the required steps to finish the installation. To access the Osclass admin dashboard, append /oc-admin
to your URL/IP.
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