Tuesday, 21 August 2012

How To Install Concrete5 Open Source CMS Ubuntu 12.04

First make you have downloaded Concrete 5, if not click the link below. 

Download Concrete 5


Installing LAMP & GD

Open a new terminal window and enter the following commands:

sudo apt-get install tasksel

sudo tasksel install lamp-server

sudo apt-get install php5-gd

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Installing Concrete 5

First we need to create a new Mysql database for the new concrete installation to use.
Enter the following into the terminal window to login to your Mysql administration:

mysql -u root
If a password was set during installation then enter:
mysql -u root -p
 Now enter the following to create a database named concrete5:
 
 create database concrete5;

Press Ctrl+C to exit Mysql.


Open  concrete5.5.2.1.zip and extract contents into  /var/www/concrete5.





Change the others file permissions to "Create and delete files".

Now you can open your web browser and navigate to the following address:

 http://127.0.0.1/concrete5/index.php

You should be greeted with a screen like this

If you have any requirements missing or you do not see a page, recheck the guide from the beginning and try again.

After clicking continue with installation you will see the following



Enter the information and click install Concrete 5. Wait for installation to complete


 After complete you will see the following screen.
Enjoy your new installation.



3 comments:

  1. These instructions are very clear, as opposed to the instructions on the concrete5.org site. Thank you. Your help was invaluable.

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