Install Fork CMS on a Debian VPS

In this tutorial we’ll see how to install Fork CMS on a Debian 7 (Wheezy) VPS with MySQL, PHP-FPM and Nginx
Fork CMS is an open-source Content Management System written in PHP and comes with modules, themes, multi-language support, search engine optimisation and many more. Fork CMS is dedicated to creating a user friendly environment to build, monitor and update your website.

Install MySQL and create a database.

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client

mysql -uroot -p
CREATE DATABASE login.
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON fork.* TO 'forkuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '_FORKUSER_PASSWORD_';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
/q

Install Nginx and PHP-FPM

apt-get install nginx php5-fpm php-cli php5-mysql php5-gd php5-mcrypt

Install Composer and Git

apt-get install git
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

Create a root directory for your web site and clone the git repository from github

mkdir -p /var/www/yourwebsite.com/{public_html,logs}
git clone https://github.com/forkcms/forkcms.git /var/www/yourwebsite.com/public_html

Install the dependencies and set the correct permissions

cd var/www/yourwebsite.com/public_html
composer install -o
chown -R www-data: /var/www/yourwebsite.com/public_html/

Nginx configuration.
Create a new Nginx server block with the following content

# /etc/nginx/sites-available/yourwebsite.com
server {
  server_name yourwebsite.com;
  listen 80;
  root /var/www/yourwebsite.com/public_html;
  access_log /var/www/yourwebsite.com/logs/access.log;
  error_log /var/www/yourwebsite.com/logs/error.log;
  index index.php;

  location ~ ^/(backend|install|api(\/\d.\d)?(\/client)?).*\.php$ {
    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
  }

  location / {
    try_files $uri /index.php?$args;
  }

  location ~* \.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico|html)$ {
    access_log off;
    expires max;
  }
  location ~ /\.ht {
    deny  all;
  }
  location ~ \.php {
    fastcgi_index index.php;
    fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(.*)$;
    include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
    fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
  }
}

Symlink it and restart the server

ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/yourwebsite.com /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/yourwebsite.com
/etc/init.d/nginx restart

Fork CMS installation

Open a browser pointing to your Fork CMS installation, and follow the on-screen instructions to complete the process.

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