Introduction – Botble CMS 5.17 – Botble

• Requirement
• Installation
• Note

Requirement

• Apache, nginx, or another compatible web server.
• PHP >= 7.3 >> Higher
• MySQL Database server
• BCMath PHP Extension
• Ctype PHP Extension
• Fileinfo PHP extension
• JSON PHP Extension
• Mbstring PHP Extension
• OpenSSL PHP Extension
• PDO PHP Extension
• Tokenizer PHP Extension
• XML PHP Extension
• Module Re_write server
• PHP_CURL Module Enable

PHP Configuration

Open your php configuration file php.ini and change the following settings.

memory_limit = 32M max_execution_time = 300

If you are using Cpanel, you can follow this article to change your PHP memory limit settings https://chemicloud.com/kb/article/how-to-increase-the-php-memory-limit-in-cpanel/

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{warning} On this project, we’re using the latest Laravel version (currently 8.x). Please go to Laravel documentation page for more information.

It’s based on Laravel framework, the root folder for it is /public. You shouldn’t install it on a sub-folder, use sub-domain is better than sub-folder. (we won’t support to install our product on sub-folder).

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Install on hosting

{warning} If you’re a Laravel developer and you want to customize our source code in platform/core and platform/packages, you need to delete folder /vendor then run command composer install to reinstall vendor packages.

• Upload all files into the root folder of your hosting (normally, it ispublic_html).
• Create a database and import data from database.sql (it’s located in source code).
• Create .env from .env.example and update your database credentials.
• Make sure APP_URL in .env is correct your domain. It should be APP_URL=http://your-domain.com
• Go to /admin to access to admin panel.
• The default admin account is botble – 159357.

Install locally or in VPS

{warning} If you’re a Laravel developer and you want to customize our source code in platform/core and platform/packages, you need to delete folder /vendor then run command composer install to reinstall vendor packages.

• Create .env file from .env-example and update your configuration.

• Using sample data:

  • Option 1: Import database from database.sql.
  • Option 2: Run php artisan migrate --seed

• Don’t use sample data:

  • Run php artisan migrate to create database structure.

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  • Run php artisan cms:user:create to create admin user.

  • Run php artisan cms:theme:activate ripple

• If you’re pulled source code from GIT server:

  • Run php artisan vendor:publish --tag=cms-public --force
  • Run php artisan cms:theme:assets:publish

• Run web locally:

  • Change APP_URL in .env to APP_URL=http://localhost:8000
  • Run php artisan serve. Open http://localhost:8000, you should see the homepage.
  • Go to /admin to access to admin panel.
  • If you’re using sample data, the default admin account is botble – 159357.
  • If you don’t use sample data, you need to go to Admin -> Plugins then activate all plugins.