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DoorGets is a free and open source content management system that allows the users to create a collaborative website with versioning of all contents you have.

Shipped with 20 languages included, 17 responsive themes, 12 modules and 4 widgets.

You can learn more about DoorGets from the DoorGets website.

Objective

In this tutorial we’ll learn how to install doorGets on Ubuntu 14.04. We will also install and configure its prerequisites.

Prerequisites

We will install doorGets on fresh installation of Ubuntu Server 14.04. We also need these applications to be able to run doorGets:

Apache 2
MySQL 5
PHP > 5.3

Update Base System

Before we install doorGets, let’s update the system to the latest update.

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get -y upgrade

Install Apache 2

After applying latest update to our base system, Lets’s start installing Apache 2 and the required libraries.

$ sudo apt-get -y install apache2 apache2-bin apache2-data apache2-mpm-prefork libaio1 libapache2-mod-php5 libapr1 libaprutil1 libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl libhtml-template-perl libmysqlclient18 libterm-readkey-perl libwrap0 ssl-cert tcpd

We can check the Apache 2 service status using command below:

sudo service apache2 status
 * apache2 is running

We can also check whether Apache 2 is listening and on which port using command below.

 sudo netstat -naptu | grep apache
tcp6       0      0 :::80                   :::*                    LISTEN      14873/apache2

Install MySQL 5.6

We will install and use MySQL 5.6 as the database server for doorGets.

We will use MySQL Server 5.6 since MySQL 5.6 is the most up to date version of MySQL shipped with Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr.

$ sudo apt-get -y install mysql-server-5.6

We need to setup MySQL root password. Please input password for MySQL root user.

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Verify root password.

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Securing MySQL Installation

We will secure MySQL installation by running mysql_secure_installation.

Enter root password that we set on installation:

$ mysql_secure_installation 
NOTE: RUNNING ALL PARTS OF THIS SCRIPT IS RECOMMENDED FOR ALL MySQL
      SERVERS IN PRODUCTION USE!  PLEASE READ EACH STEP CAREFULLY!

In order to log into MySQL to secure it, we'll need the current
password for the root user.  If you've just installed MySQL, and
you haven't set the root password yet, the password will be blank,
so you should just press enter here.

Enter current password for root (enter for none): 
OK, successfully used password, moving on...

Since we already have a root password set, answer this part with n:

Setting the root password ensures that nobody can log into the MySQL
root user without the proper authorisation.

You already have a root password set, so you can safely answer 'n'.

Change the root password? [Y/n] n
 ... skipping.

Remove the anonymous user to improve security. This will make sure people or application have correct username and password to login to MySQL. Answer with Y.

By default, a MySQL installation has an anonymous user, allowing anyone
to log into MySQL without having to have a user account created for
them.  This is intended only for testing, and to make the installation
go a bit smoother.  You should remove them before moving into a
production environment.

Remove anonymous users? [Y/n] Y
 ... Success!

We also want remove the root login from remote machine. Answer with Y:

Normally, root should only be allowed to connect from 'localhost'.  This
ensures that someone cannot guess at the root password from the network.

Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n] Y
 ... Success!

Previously the test database was created automatically by the MySQL installation, but MySQL 5.6 does not create test database. We can still choose Y, it will throw error but that’s fine.

By default, MySQL comes with a database named 'test' that anyone can
access.  This is also intended only for testing, and should be removed
before moving into a production environment.

Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n] Y
 - Dropping test database...
ERROR 1008 (HY000) at line 1: Can't drop database 'test'; database doesn't exist
 ... Failed!  Not critical, keep moving...
 - Removing privileges on test database...
 ... Success!

The last step is to reload MySQL privilege table:

Reloading the privilege tables will ensure that all changes made so far
will take effect immediately.

Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n] Y
 ... Success!


All done!  If you've completed all of the above steps, your MySQL
installation should now be secure.

Thanks for using MySQL!


Cleaning up...

Create a Database for Doorgets

Now we have a secure MySQL installation, time to create database and user for doorgets itself.

$ mysql -u root -p
Enter password: 
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 58
Server version: 5.6.30-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 (Ubuntu)

Copyright (c) 2000, 2016, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its
affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective
owners.

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.

mysql>

Create new database named doorgets using command below

mysql> CREATE DATABASE doorgets DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

Create a user for Doorgets

The database for doorgets is ready, let’s create a username and password and grant privileges to doorgets database.

Don’t forget to change the password doorgets123secret below with better password.

mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `doorgets`.* TO 'doorgets'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'doorgets123secret';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

We need to run FLUSH PRIVILEGES command so that the privileges table will be reloaded by MySQL and we can use new credential.

mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

Exit from MySQL console by typing \q

mysql> \q

Install PHP 5

The last component that we have to install before we can install doorgets is PHP 5. We will install PHP 5 and several common PHP libraries.

$ sudo apt-get -y install php5-cli php5-common php5-json php5-mysql php5-readline

Restart Apache 2 process so the changes will be applied.

$ sudo service apache2 restart

Install Doorgets

All prerequisites are already installed. We’re ready to install doorgets. The latest stable version of doorgets is available via the doorGets download page.

At the time of this writing, the latest stable version is version 7.0, let’s download the doorgets compressed file using wget.

$ wget -c http://sourceforge.net/projects/doorgets-cms/files/doorGets%20CMS%20V7/doorGets_CMS_V7.0.zip/download -O doorGets_CMS_V7.0.zip

Extract the downloaded file using unzip. If your system doesn’t have unzip yet, you can install unzip using command below:

$ sudo apt-get -y install unzip

Extract doorgets using unzip:

$ unzip doorGets_CMS_V7.0.zip -d doorgets

Move doorgets folder to Apache directory:

$ sudo mv doorgets /var/www

Change ownership of doorgets directory to www-data user and group.

$ sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/doorgets

The doorgets files are now ready, next let’s create Apache Virtual Host configuration to serve doorgets.

Configure Apache Virtual Host for http Only

Create new apache configuration file on /etc/apache2/sites-available/doorgets.conf with contents below.

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName doorgets.exampleserver.xyz

    DocumentRoot /var/www/doorgets

    <Directory /var/www/doorgets>
        Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks +MultiViews
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
    </Directory>

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/doorgets.exampleserver.xyz-error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/doorgets.exampleserver.xyz-access.log combined

</VirtualHost>

Don’t forget to change doorgets.exampleserver.xyz above with the domain name that you use for your doorgets installation.

Enable the site using a2ensite command.

$ sudo a2ensite doorgets

We also need to enable mod_rewrite for DoorGets.

$ sudo a2enmod rewrite

Restart the apache2 process so it read the new virtualhost configuration and also load rewrite module:

$ sudo service apache2 restart

DoorGets Setup Wizard

Now open Doorgets URL, we will be redirected to DoorGets Setup Wizard. Choose your installation language and timezone.

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Step 1 is doorGets license. doorGets released under GNU GPL version 3. you can read the license detail then tick on I have read and agree to the Terms of Use doorGets checkbox, then click Next step

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Next step is file system writing check, we should already pass this check. Click Next step

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Now input database name and credetials we already created on previous step.

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Configure your site Title, Slogan, Description etc. Click Next Step

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Input your administration Email and password.

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doorGets setup finish now time to install doorGets. click on Generate my website doorGets

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Our doorGets based site is ready. We can click on top right of the site to login or go to http://<site-url>/dg-user/:

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Input administrator email and password.

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After successful login we will go to doorGets admin dashboard.

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Configure https only site for doorgets

A secure connection is now a requirement for web application. The last step that we will do in this tutorial is changing the connection to only use https. We assume that you already have SSL certificate and private key.

Let’s create new apache virtual host configuration on /etc/apache2/sites-available/doorgets-ssl.conf with contents below. Don’t forget to change:

ServerName
SSLCertificateFile
SSLCertificateChainFile
SSLCertificateKeyFile

<VirtualHost *:80>
   ServerName doorgets.exampleserver.xyz
   Redirect permanent / https://doorgets.exampleserver.xyz/
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:443>

    ServerName doorgets.exampleserver.xyz

    DocumentRoot /var/www/doorgets

    <Directory /var/www/doorgets>
        Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks +MultiViews
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
    </Directory>

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/doorgets.exampleserver.xyz-error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/doorgets.exampleserver.xyz-access.log combined

    SSLEngine on
    SSLCertificateFile      /etc/apache2/ssl/doorgets.exampleserver.xyz.crt
    SSLCertificateChainFile /etc/apache2/ssl/doorgets.exampleserver.xyz.crt
    SSLCertificateKeyFile   /etc/apache2/ssl/doorgets.exampleserver.xyz.key

    # Uncomment the following directive when using client certificate authentication
    #SSLCACertificateFile    /path/to/ca_certs_for_client_authentication


    # HSTS (mod_headers is required) (15768000 seconds = 6 months)
    Header always set Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=15768000"

</VirtualHost>

 # intermediate configuration, tweak to your needs
SSLProtocol             all -SSLv2 -SSLv3
SSLCipherSuite          ECDHE-ECDSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:AES128-GCM-SHA256:AES256-GCM-SHA384:AES128-SHA256:AES256-SHA256:AES128-SHA:AES256-SHA:DES-CBC3-SHA:!DSS
SSLHonorCipherOrder     on

We will also disable doorgets http only virtual host and enable the new virtual host config.

$ sudo a2dissite doorgets
$ sudo a2ensite doorgets-ssl

The new virtual host configuration need Apache mod_ssl and mod_headers modules. We need to enable those modules.

$ sudo a2enmod ssl
$ sudo a2enmod headers

Now, restart Apache 2 service so it will reload its configuration. We need to restart instead of reload since we enable new module.

$ sudo service apache2 restart

We need to change the config file. Open config/config.php.

Find the line:

define('PROTOCOL','http://');

Replace with:

define('PROTOCOL','https://');

Now when we access our doorGets site we will always use the https connection.

Summary

In this tutorial we learned how to install doorgets on Ubuntu 14.04.

We installed all the prerequisites, created a user and database on MySQL for doorGets and also configured Apache 2 virtual hosts to be able to serve doorgets. We also configured https settings for doorgets so we run doorGets securely, this increases people”s confidence in performing a transaction on our e-store.

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