This article explains how to install the complete server software (Apache, MariaDB, php5, php-cli, postfix etc.) for VIMP and how to configure the webhosting.
We need the well known EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) repository to install php-mcrypt that is not part of the RHEL or CentOS base repositories.
For RHEL 7 please note: https://access.redhat.com/solutions/3358
yum install epel-release
yum update yum install httpd php php-gd php-mysql php-mbstring php-process php-xmlrpc php-xml libxslt php-mcrypt
We install postfix as MTA (Mail Transport Agent). Other MTAs like sendmail can be used, too, but please take care that it is configured to send e-mails by PHP scripts.
yum install postfix
We install VIMP into the "default"-hosting. Its configuration was created automatically with the apache installation. We need some configuration changes and use "vi" as editor. Feel free to use any other editor of your choice:
vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
First we change the DocumentRoot like this:
DocumentRoot "/var/www/html/web"
And we change the corresponding block. Please don't forget to adapt the path within the Directoy tag:
# Further relax access to the default document root:
<Directory "/var/www/html/web">
#
# Possible values for the Options directive are "None", "All",
# or any combination of:
# Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks
#
# Note that "MultiViews" must be named *explicitly* --- "Options All"
# doesn't give it to you.
#
# The Options directive is both complicated and important. Please see
# http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/core.html#options
# for more information.
#
Options FollowSymLinks
#
# AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files.
# It can be "All", "None", or any combination of the keywords:
# Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
#
AllowOverride All
#
# Controls who can get stuff from this server.
#
Require all granted
</Directory>
# mkdir /var/www/html/web # chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/web
We reload the configuration later. First we have to...
We open Port 80 (HTTP) and 443 (HTTPS) of the firewalld:
# firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=80/tcp # firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=443/tcp # And reload the firewall configuration: # firewall-cmd --reload
There's just one php.ini file that configures PHP for Apache and the CLI (cli=command line interface).
joe /etc/php.ini
Modify the following lines:
upload_max_filesize = 2047M
post_max_size = 2047M
memory_limit = 2047M
Save and restart Apache.
service httpd restart
If not already done we set a password for the mysql user "root":
# mysql
MariaDB [(none)]> UPDATE mysql.user SET Password=PASSWORD('mypassword') WHERE user='root'; MariaDB [(none)]> flush privileges; MariaDB [(none)]> exit;
Now log in again with the new password and create the VIMP database and db-user:
# mysql -p
# [enter mysql-root password]
MariaDB [(none)]> create database DATABASENAME default character set utf8 collate utf8_unicode_ci;
MariaDB [(none)]> grant all privileges on DATABASENAME.* to 'DATABASEUSER'@'localhost' identified by 'PASSWORD';
MariaDB [(none)]> flush privileges;
MariaDB [(none)]> exit;
Upload and installation of the VIMP installer is described here.
In case you´re using SELinux, please check this article for the SELinux configuration.
Now the installation is finished. Enter the URL of your portal in your web browser.
During installation three users with the corresponding user roles are created:
Change all passwords as soon as possible after installation. If you don't need those standard users you can delete each of them in the administration backend.
