Installation on GNU/Linux

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1. Installation on Ubuntu 16.04
2. Installation on Centos 7 / RedHat 7

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Installation on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Considerations:

• PHP-FPM is running under the username www-data.
• PHP-FPM is listen on Unix socket on unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock.
• Nginx is running under the username www-data.
• You don't have installed any other webserver.
• This is a basic configuration, considere read more for production environments.

Install Nginx Webserver, PHP and some tools.

$ sudo apt install -y nginx php-fpm php-dom php-mbstring php-cli php-gd php-opcache unzip wget

Configure Nginx.

$ sudo rm -f /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*

Add a new file with the virtual server block in /etc/nginx/conf.d/bludit.conf

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name _;
    root /www/bludit;
    index index.php;

    location ~ \.php$ {
        fastcgi_pass    unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
        include         fastcgi.conf;
    }

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

Download the latest version of Bludit and uncompress it.

$ mkdir /www
$ cd /www
$ wget https://s3.amazonaws.com/bludit-s3/bludit-builds/bludit_latest.zip
$ unzip bludit_latest.zip
$ sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /www

Restart the services to load the new configurations.

$ sudo service php7.0-fpm restart
$ sudo service nginx restart

Open your browser and navigate to http://localhost, finish with the installation.

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Installation on Centos 7 / Red Hat 7

Considerations:

• PHP-FPM is running under the username nginx.
• PHP-FPM is listen on Unix socket on unix:/run/php/php-fpm.sock.
• Nginx is running under the username nginx.
• You don't have installed any other webserver.
• This is a basic configuration, considere read more for production environments.

$ sudo yum install -y epel-release

Install Nginx Webserver, PHP and some tools.

$ yum install -y nginx php-fpm php-cli php-dom php-mbstring php-zip php-gd

Configure Nginx, add a new file with the virtual server block in /etc/nginx/conf.d/bludit.conf

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name _;
    root /www/bludit;
    index index.php;

    location ~ \.php$ {
        fastcgi_pass    unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
        include         fastcgi.conf;
    }

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

Download the latest version of Bludit and uncompress it.

$ mkdir /www
$ cd /www
$ wget https://s3.amazonaws.com/bludit-s3/bludit-builds/bludit_latest.zip
$ unzip bludit_latest.zip
$ sudo chown -R nginx:nginx /www

Restart the services to load the new configurations.

$ sudo systemctl php-fpm restart
$ sudo systemctl nginx restart

Open your browser and navigate to http://localhost, finish with the installation.