How to Install Joomla on CentOS 7

Before you start the installation, please make sure that you have LAMP stack installed on your server. If not, follow our excellent tutorial about installing LAMP (Linux Apache, MariaDB & PHP) on a CentOS 7 VPS

Requirements

We are using our SSD 1 VPS hosting plan for this tutorial.

Update the system

First make sure your Linux VPS is fully up-to-date using the command below:

# yum update

Configure Your Firewall

Before we proceed you should customize your Firewall to allow external access to port 80 (http) and 443 (https). To do this please enter the following commands:

# firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-service=http
# firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-service=https
# firewall-cmd --reload

Install Joomla on CentOS 7

Enter a directory by your choice and download Joomla. For our purpoces we are using the /tmp directory.

# cd /tmp

Install wget

Install wget and unzip using yum:

# yum install wget unzip

Download and unzip Joomla

Now download the latest Joomla version:

# wget https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/releases/download/3.4.2/Joomla_3.4.2-Stable-Full_Package.zip

Then create a directory /var/www/html/joomla and unzip the Joomla zip file in the newly created folder:

# mkdir -p /var/www/html/joomla

# unzip -q Joomla_3.4.2-Stable-Full_Package.zip -d /var/www/html/joomla

Configure web server

Give the appropriate permissions:

# chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/joomla
# chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/joomla

Create MySql database

Enter MySQL as root:

# mysql -u root -p

mysql> CREATE DATABASE joomla;
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES on joomla.* to 'joomlauser'@'localhost' identified by 'your_password';
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

Restart MySql

Restart MySQL service in order for changes to take effect

# systemctl restart mysqld.service

Finalize the installation via web browser

Now you can finish your Joomla installation by opening your favorite web browser and navigate to: http://your_ip_address/joomla