Installing the Webserver, Webhosting and VIMP on RedHat 7 / CentOS 7 (VIMP <=3.6.x)

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

 

We install Apache and PHP:

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

 

Apache Konfiguration:

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

# firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=80/tcp
# firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=443/tcp
# And reload the firewall configuration:
# firewall-cmd --reload

joe /etc/php.ini

upload_max_filesize = 2047M
post_max_size = 2047M
memory_limit = 2047M

service httpd restart

# mysql

MariaDB [(none)]> UPDATE mysql.user SET Password=PASSWORD('mypassword') WHERE user='root';
MariaDB [(none)]> flush privileges;
MariaDB [(none)]> exit;

# 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;

Basic usage

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:

• "admin" (Password: "admin") as administrator
• "moderator" (Password: "moderator") as moderator
• "user" (Password: "user") as standard user

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.