Setup Photon CMS

This example will use photon cli to install Photon CMS from within the PHP container.

Official Photon CMS Documentation

Table of Contents

local

Overview

The following configuration will be used:

Project name	VirtualHost directory	Database	TLD_SUFFIX	Project URL
my-photon	/shared/httpd/my-photon	blog	loc	http://my-photon.loc

Note

The database is created automatically by photon cli.

Walk through

It will be ready in six simple steps:

Enter the PHP container
Create a new VirtualHost directory
Install Photon
Symlink webroot directory
Setup DNS record
Visit http://my-photon.loc in your browser

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1. Enter the PHP container

host> ./shell.sh

tutorial_work_inside_the_php_container

2. Create new vhost directory

devilbox@php-7.0.20 in /shared/httpd $ mkdir my-photon

3. Install Photon

During the installation you will be asked for the MySQL hostname, username and password. Ensure not to specify localhost, but instead use 127.0.0.1 for the hostname. Additionally, provide a pair of credentials that has permissions to create a database or create the database itself beforehand.

devilbox@php-7.0.20 in /shared/httpd $ cd my-photon
devilbox@php-7.0.20 in /shared/httpd/my-photon $ photon new blog
...What is your mysql hostname? [localhost]  127.0.0.1
...What is your mysql username? [root]root
...What is your mysql password? []

4. Symlink webroot

devilbox@php-7.0.20 in /shared/httpd/my-photon $ ln -s blog/public/ htdocs

5. DNS record

If you do not have global_configuration_auto_dns configured, you will need to add the following line to your host operating systems /etc/hosts file (or C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc on Windows):

127.0.0.1 my-photon.loc

For in-depth info about adding DNS records on Linux, Windows or MacOS see: project_configuration_dns_records or global_configuration_auto_dns.

6. Open your browser

Open your browser at http://my-photon.loc

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