How to Install FlatPress on Fedora Server

FlatPress is a lightweight and user-friendly blogging platform written in PHP. In this tutorial, we will be installing FlatPress on Fedora Server.

Prerequisites

Before we start the installation process, there are a few prerequisites that we need to take care of.

• A Fedora Server instance with SSH access and root privileges
• Apache or Nginx webserver
• PHP 5.3 or greater with GD library, XML extension, and SQLite extension installed

If you have not installed any of these prerequisites, please perform the following steps:

Install Apache / Nginx

You can install Apache by running the following command:

sudo dnf update
sudo dnf install httpd

or, install Nginx by running the following command:

sudo dnf update
sudo dnf install nginx

Install PHP

You can install PHP by running the following command:

sudo dnf update
sudo dnf install php php-common php-gd php-xml php-sqlite

Installation

Now that we have taken care of the prerequisites, we can move on to the installation process.

Download and Extract FlatPress

We can download FlatPress from their official website or clone the latest release version using the following command:

cd /var/www/html/
sudo git clone https://github.com/flatpress/flatpress.git flatpress

Set Permissions

The HTTP server needs write access to the following files and directories:

/var/www/html/flatpress/
/var/www/html/flatpress/fp-content/
/var/www/html/flatpress/fp-content/cache/
/var/www/html/flatpress/fp-content/themes/
/var/www/html/flatpress/fp-content/plugins/

To grant the HTTP server write access to these files, run the following commands:

sudo chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/flatpress/
sudo chmod -R 777 /var/www/html/flatpress/

Configure HTTP Server

Configure Apache

If you've installed Apache as your web server then you can create a new virtual host file for FlatPress by running:

sudo nano /etc/httpd/conf.d/flatpress.conf

Add the following content to the file:

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerAdmin YOUR_EMAIL_ADDRESS
        DocumentRoot "/var/www/html/flatpress/"
        ServerName YOUR_DOMAIN_NAME
        <Directory "/var/www/html/flatpress/">
                Options FollowSymLinks
                AllowOverride All
                Require all granted
        </Directory>
        ErrorLog "/var/log/httpd/flatpress_error_log"
        CustomLog "/var/log/httpd/flatpress_access_log" combined
</VirtualHost>

Save the file and exit.

Configure Nginx

If you've installed Nginx as your web server then you can create a new server block file for FlatPress by running:

sudo nano /etc/nginx/conf.d/flatpress.conf

Add the following content to the file:

server {
       listen 80;
       server_name YOUR_DOMAIN_NAME;
       root /var/www/html/flatpress/;
       index  index.php index.html index.htm;
       location / {
               try_files $uri /index.php?$args;
       }
       location ~ .php$ {
               fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
               fastcgi_index index.php;
               fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
               include fastcgi_params;
       }
}

Save the file and exit.

Install

After setting up the HTTP server, we can proceed to install FlatPress.

• Open a web browser and point it to http://YOUR_DOMAIN_NAME
• Follow the setup instructions
• Specify database and administrator account details during setup

Once you have finished configuring FlatPress, you are now ready to use it as your blogging platform.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we have learned how to install FlatPress on a Fedora Server instance with Apache or Nginx as the webserver. We have also set the correct permissions to ensure that the HTTP server has write access. You can now proceed to use FlatPress as your blogging platform.