SilverStripe is a very popular open source Content Management System (CMS) and Framework that can help you to create and manage the content of your websites and web applications.
To install and run SilverStripe on a Linux virtual server follow the very easy steps described below.
The installation instructions apply to any Linux based server with LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) installed on it. Currently, SilverStripe requires PHP >= 5.3+ with MySQL, GD graphics library, tidy, curl and zlib extensions enabled, Apache Web Server >= 1.3.19 compiled with mod_rewrite module and ‘AllowOverride All’ set, and MySQL >= 5.0 installed on your Linux virtual server.
Download and unpack the latest version of SilverStripe available at http://www.silverstripe.org/stable-download :
cd /root wget http://www.silverstripe.org/assets/releases/SilverStripe-cms-v3.1.1.tar.gz tar -xvzf SilverStripe-cms-v3.1.1.tar.gz
Create a new MySQL database for SilverStripe on your server:
mysql -u root -p mysql> CREATE DATABASE silverstripedb; mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON silverstripedb.* TO 'silverstripe'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'YOUR-PASSWORD-HERE' WITH GRANT OPTION; mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES; mysql> quit
Create a new virtual host directive in Apache. For example:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin admin@your-domain.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/silverstripe/
ServerName www.your-domain.com
<Directory /var/www/html/silverstripe/>
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
ErrorLog logs/your-domain.com-error_log
CustomLog logs/your-domain.com-access_log common
</VirtualHost>
Restart the Apache web server for the changes to take effect.
Move the SilverStripe installation files to the document root directory defined in the virtual host directive above:
mv /root/SilverStripe-cms-v3.1.1 /var/www/html/silverstripe
Make sure ‘date.timezone’ option in php.ini is set correctly. Also, the webserver user (Apache) needs to be able to write to ‘assets’ directory and ‘.htaccess’ and ‘mysite/_config.php’ files, so you can easily accomplish that by executing the following command:
chown apache:apache -R /var/www/html/silverstripe
Open http://your-domain.com/ in a web browser and you should be redirected to ‘install.php’. Enter the following information:
Database Configuration
Database server: localhost Database username: silverstripe Database password: your silverstripe database password Database name: silverstripedb
CMS Admin Account
Email: your email address Password: your admin password
Then, select the default language of the CMS interface, select the default theme and click the ‘Install SilverStripe’ button. Once the installation is complete, click the link ‘Click here to delete the install files’ to delete the installation files.
Of course, you don’t have to do any of this if you use one of our Linux VPS Hosting services, in which case you can simply ask our expert Linux admins to install SilverStripe CMS on your server for you. They are available 24×7 and will take care of your request immediately. You can also try reading our guide on How to Install SilverStripe on Debian 8.
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