INTRODUCTION

Joomla is also spelled Joomla! (with an exclamation mark) and sometimes abbreviated as J!, is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) for publishing web content on websites. Although it’s not as popular as its counterpart WordPress, it’s still used for creating blogs/websites with limited or no web programming knowledge.

It offers thousands of features, plugins, and designs that help you to host several web applications including, discussion forums, photo galleries, e-Commerce, and user communities on the web. It is built on PHP and uses MySQL and MariaDB as database backends. Joomla server provides several high-end templates and most of them are free to use.

LAMP Stack installation in CentOS 8

Install Apache Webserver

First of all, you have to update your repositories, Apache is available in  Centos repositories. So install the package run the following commands:-

$ sudo dnf update

$ sudo dnf install httpd httpd-tools

Once the installation is complete, then enable Apache to auto-start at system boot time using the command below.

$ sudo systemctl enable httpd

Next, start the Apache service by running the command.

$ sudo systemctl start httpd

To confirm is Apache web service is running, run the command.

$ sudo systemctl status httpd

After installing apache, then update the firewall rules to allow requests to web server.

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

Then you will need to install the LAMP Server including required PHP extensions to your server. So you can install all of them by running the following command:

$ sudo dnf install php-curl php-xml php-zip php-mysqlnd php-intl php-gd php-json php-ldap php-mbstring php-opcache

$ sudo systemctl start mariadb
$ sudo systemctl enable mariadb

$ sudo mysql_secure_installation

Enter current password for root (enter for none): Just Press Enter
Set root password? [Y/n] Y
Remove anonymous users? [Y/n] Y
Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n] Y
Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n] Y
Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n] Y

$ sudo mysql -u root -p

$ sudo MariaDB [(none)]> CREATE DATABASE joomla;

$ sudo MariaDB [(none)]> GRANT ALL ON joomla.* TO 'joomla'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';

$ sudo MariaDB [(none)]> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

$ sudo wget https://downloads.joomla.org/cms/joomla4/4-0-6/Joomla_4-0-6-Stable-Full_Package.zip?format=zip -O joomla.zip

$ sudo unzip joomla.zip -d /var/www/html/example.org

$ sudochown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/example.org
$ sudo chmod -R 775 /var/www/html/example.org

$ sudo /etc/httpd/conf.d/joomla.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
   ServerAdmin admin@example.org
   DocumentRoot "/var/www/html/example.org"
   ServerName joomla.example.com
   ErrorLog "/var/log/httpd/example.com-error_log"
   CustomLog "/var/log/httpd/example.com-access_log" combined

<Directory "/var/www/html/example.org">
   DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
   Options FollowSymLinks
   AllowOverride All
   Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

$ sudo systemctl restart httpd

firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=http
firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=https

$ sudo firewall-cmd --reload

$ sudo systemctl status httpd