How to install Cotonti CMS 0.9 on Ubuntu 18.04

To install Cotonti CMS 0.9 on Ubuntu 18.04
Cotonti is open source Content Management System and Content Management Framework built based on PHP and MySQL. It possesses both the flexibility of web development framework and also the feature set of a content manager with more focus on security, speed, and flexibility. In this tutorial, we will cover the installation of Cotonti CMS on Ubuntu 18.04.

Prerequisites
Install LAMP(Apache, MariaDB, php7)
In MariaDB (create database and user and give privileges to that user )
Php installation with required following modules

add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
apt-get update
apt-get install php7.0 php7.0-mysql php7.0-curl php7.0-json php7.0-cgi libapache2-mod-php7.0 php7.0-mcrypt php7.0-xmlrpc 
php7.0-gd php7.0-mbstring php7.0  php7.0-common  php7.0-xmlrpc php7.0-soap  php7.0-xml php7.0-intl  php7.0-cli  php7.0-ldap 
php7.0-zip php7.0-readline php7.0-imap php7.0-tidy php7.0-recode php7.0-sq php7.0-intl

Installation
Download a Cotonti package using the following URL

root@linuxhelp1:~# wget https://codeload.github.com/Cotonti/Cotonti/zip/0.9.19
--2018-08-29 02:10:54--  https://codeload.github.com/Cotonti/Cotonti/zip/0.9.19
Resolving codeload.github.com (codeload.github.com)... 192.30.253.120, 192.30.253.121
Connecting to codeload.github.com (codeload.github.com)|192.30.253.120|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [application/zip]
Saving to: ‘;0.9.19’;

0.9.19                      [                   <=>         ]   3.38M   910KB/s    in 4.3s    

2018-08-29 00:44:00 (805 KB/s) - ‘;0.9.19’; saved [3548667]

After Downloading extract the downloaded package

root@linuxhelp1:~# unzip 0.9.19
Archive:  0.9.19
79bf592175f89fd8e537671169fe70fd3a34fe9c
   creating: Cotonti-0.9.19/
  inflating: Cotonti-0.9.19/.gitattributes  
  inflating: Cotonti-0.9.19/.gitignore  
 extracting: Cotonti-0.9.19/.htaccess  
  inflating: Cotonti-0.9.19/Install.txt  
  inflating: Cotonti-0.9.19/License.txt  
  inflating: Cotonti-0.9.19/README.md  
.
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  inflating: Cotonti-0.9.19/themes/symisun-03/symisun-03.rc.php  
  inflating: Cotonti-0.9.19/themes/symisun-03/symisun-03.readme.txt  
  inflating: Cotonti-0.9.19/themes/symisun-03/symisun-03.ru.lang.php  
  inflating: Cotonti-0.9.19/themes/symisun-03/users.details.tpl  
  inflating: Cotonti-0.9.19/themes/symisun-03/users.edit.tpl  
  inflating: Cotonti-0.9.19/themes/symisun-03/users.passrecover.tpl  
  inflating: Cotonti-0.9.19/themes/symisun-03/users.profile.tpl  
  inflating: Cotonti-0.9.19/themes/symisun-03/users.register.tpl  
  inflating: Cotonti-0.9.19/themes/symisun-03/users.tpl  
  inflating: Cotonti-0.9.19/themes/symisun-03/warnings.tpl

Move the extracted file into the HTML directory

root@linuxhelp1:~# mv Cotonti-0.9.19 /var/www/

Navigate to the apache document root directory

root@linuxhelp1:~# cd /var/www/

Change ownership and permission of the as Cotonti follows

root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# chown -R www-data.www-data Cotonti-0.9.19/
root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# chmod -R 775 Cotonti-0.9.19

Create a new virtual host configuration for accessing the Cotonti

root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/cotonti.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.linuxhelp1.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/Cotonti-0.9.19/

<Directory /var/www/Cotonti-0.9.19/>
AllowOverride All
Allow from all
</Directory>

</VirtualHost>

Enable site access

root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# a2ensite cotonti.conf
Enabling site cotonti.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
  systemctl reload apache2

Disable default access

root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# a2dissite 000-default.conf
Site 000-default disabled.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
  systemctl reload apache2

Enable  rewrite module

root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# a2enmod rewrite
Enabling module rewrite.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
  systemctl restart apache2

Restart the apache service to make the changes effect  

root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# systemctl restart apache2

Now you can proceed the further installation and configuration from the browser by navigating to the following URL: http://<ipaddress or domain name


Choose the language for using Cotonti as shown below


Verify the compatibility for installing Cotonti


Configure the Database setup as follows


Configure the Admin user setup as follow


Choose the Modules, Plugins and other Utilities


After the configuration, you will see the following page as shown below


Access the Home page from the options shown below


You will see the Homepage of Cotonti as shown below


Access the login page from the options shown below


You can log in using the admin user credentials


After the Successful login, you will see the Admin dashboard of Cotonti as shown below


Access the Administration panel from the options shown below



You will see the version of Cotonti


With this, the method to install Cotonti CMS 0.9 on Ubuntu 18.04 comes to an end.