I wanted to try out the MySource Matrix CMS. But I couldn't find a demosite or something else, just the flash demo on the website. So I decided to install it on a fresh Debian 3.1 installation. Since the whole process was a little tricky, I want to share this step-by-step guide.
First Steps
- I started with a netinst Debian image. And installed it in a VMWare.
- I ran the command base-config and chose the predefined sollections of software Web server and SQL database
Requirements
The following steps are important to comply with the requirements.
apt-get install php-mail-mime mime-support
apt-get install php4-cli php4-common php4-pear
apt-get install php4-pgsql apache2-mpm-prefork
Preparation for the Postgres DB
Switch user to postgres:
$ su postgres
Run the steps basically described here.
$ createuser -U postgres matrix Shall the new role be a superuser? (y/n) n Shall the new role be allowed to create databases? (y/n) n Shall the new role be allowed to create more new roles? (y/n) n CREATE USER
$ createuser -U postgres matrix_secondary Shall the new role be a superuser? (y/n) n Shall the new role be allowed to create databases? (y/n) n Shall the new role be allowed to create more new roles? (y/n) n CREATE USER
$ createdb -U postgres -O matrix mysource_matrix CREATE DATABASE $ createlang -U postgres plpgsql mysource_matrix
Switch user back to root.
$ su root
This thread suggests to allow connections to PostgreSQL from the local server without a password. Edit this file
vi /var/lib/postgres/data/pg_hba.conf
and change the upper two "local" lines and change "ident sameuser" to "trust".
Restart the postgres server.
/etc/init.d/postgresql restart
Download and install.
Basically described here.
I installed version 3.8.2. The latest version is to find here.
$ cd /var/www
$ wget http://matrix.squiz.net/__data/assets/file/8162/mysource_3-8-2.tar.gz
$ tar -zxvf mysource_3-8-2.tar.gz
$ cd /var/www/mysource_matrix
$ php install/step_01.php .
Edit this file
$ vi data/private/conf/main.inc
and change these settings:
define('SQ_CONF_DB_DSN', 'pgsql://matrix@unix()/mysource_matrix');
define('SQ_CONF_DB2_DSN', 'pgsql://matrix@unix()/mysource_matrix');
define('SQ_CONF_DB3_DSN', 'pgsql://matrix_secondary@unix()/mysource_matrix');
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define('SQ_CONF_SYSTEM_ROOT_URLS', '192.168.65.134');
Note: The address/ip in this example is the local address of my installation. Find out the ip of your machine with the command ifconfig.
$ php install/step_02.php .
$ php install/compile_locale.php . $ php install/step_03.php . $ php install/compile_locale.php .
$ chmod -R 755 /var/www/mysource_matrix $ cd /var/www/mysource_matrix $ chown -R www-data:www-data data cache $ chmod -R g+w data cache
Apache Configuration
Edit the file
/etc/apache2/sites-available/default
paste these lines
<VirtualHost *>
DocumentRoot /var/www/mysource_matrix/core/web
<Directory "/var/www/mysource_matrix">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
</Directory>
<Directory "/var/www/mysource_matrix/core/web">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
<Directory "/var/www/mysource_matrix/core/lib">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
<Directory "/var/www/mysource_matrix/data/public">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
<Directory "/var/www/mysource_matrix/fudge">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
Alias "/__data" "/var/www/mysource_matrix/data/public"
Alias "/__lib" "/var/www/mysource_matrix/core/lib"
Alias "/__fudge" "/var/www/mysource_matrix/fudge"
Alias "/" "/var/www/mysource_matrix/core/web/index.php/"
</VirtualHost>
restart Apache
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Done!
If everything worked well, you should see this when entering your local address in your browser URL field. In our case the URL ist http://192.168.65.134/_admin/
The UID/password is root/root by default.
The initial Admin Interface looks like this:
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