Install Textpattern CMS with CentOS 7

By
Rajneesh Upadhyay
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Introduction

Textpatter is and CMS or content management systems which is open source and free, it is enriched with a full range of features which are required to create a sophisticated and powerful website.

Functions and features

No knowledge  of coding is required, a very simple interface is provided, some of highlights related to it’s feature are:

Easy Writing

Plain text got converted very quick into valid XHTML. Articles can be protected with a password, browser based file management.

Design and security

It is purely open source and based upon LAMP and jQuery.Anti comment system is enabled. Very small footprint and consume very few space in memory and disk. Unlimited designs and templates are available.

Easy management

Available in over 40 languages, lots of file, links and image category are featured, up to date visitors log is available.A wide range of plug-ins available which are very easy to install and handle.

Installation

CentOS7, mariadb, Apache and PHP are required to install this package.

Update system

yum install

Install database

# yum install mariadb mariadb-server

Install web Server, we will prefer Apache web services for this configuration

#yum install httpd

Start database and web services

Sample Output:

# systemctl start mariadb
# systemctl start httpd
# systemctl enable httpd
ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/httpd.service' '/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/httpd.service'
# systemctl enable mariadb
ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/mariadb.service' '/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/mariadb.service'

Create a database and a user associated with the database

Sample output

 

[root@localhost user]# mysqladmin -u root password password
[root@localhost user]# mysql -u root -p
Enter password:
Welcome to the MariaDB monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MariaDB connection id is 3
Server version: 5.5.44-MariaDB MariaDB Server

Copyright (c) 2000, 2015, Oracle, MariaDB Corporation Ab and others.

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.

MariaDB [(none)]> create database unixmen;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

MariaDB [(none)]> CREATE USER 'unimxen'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'P@ssw0rd';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)

MariaDB [(none)]> grant all privileges on unixmen.* to 'unixmen'@'localhost';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

MariaDB [(none)]> flush privileges;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

MariaDB [(none)]> exit
Bye

Installed required packages for cms

# yum install php php-pdo php-common php-mbstring php-mcrypt php-mysql -y

Finally download the package

# cd /tmp/ && wget http://textpattern.com/latest.zip

Extract tha package to your web directory

# unzip latest.zip -d /var/www/html/

Make appropriate changes with permissions and ownership

# chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/textpattern-4.5.7

Restart Apache service, open browser and type following

http://127.0.0.1/textpattern-4.5.7/textpattern/setup/

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Click next and give database user and password:

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Click next, Selection_021 Create a fined named config.php under /var/www/html/textpattern-4.5.7/textpattern and copy following contents to that file:

<?php
$txpcfg['db'] = 'unixmen';
$txpcfg['user'] = 'root';
$txpcfg['pass'] = 'password';
$txpcfg['host'] = 'localhost';
$txpcfg['table_prefix'] = '';
$txpcfg['txpath'] = '/var/www/html/textpattern-4.5.7/textpattern';
$txpcfg['dbcharset'] = 'utf8';
?>

Same this file change permissions and click on  “I did it”:

Selection_022 Finish Installation steps and login with provided credentials:

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Conclusion

Textpattern is easy to use, east to install CMS system, even admin panel is very simple to use.

Reference link:

http://textpattern.com/features