Getting Started

About 2 min

Welcome, we are glad that you are interested in installing BlizzCMS. For this, you will be guided on how to install the CMS with different methods depending on the familiarity you have with them.

Prerequisites

Before you get started, ensure you have the following:

Web Server (Apache/Nginx)
- Enable modules: mod_headers - mod_rewrite
MySQL 5.7+ or MariaDB 10.6+
PHP 7.4 or newer recommended
- Enable extensions: bcmath - curl - gd - gmp - intl - mbstring - mysqli - openssl - soap - zip
Composer 2.6+

Note

The CMS requires that you have a World of Wacraft server pre-installed with its respective databases.

Warning

You must have strict mode disabled in MySQL/MariaDB to the values NO_ZERO_IN_DATE, NO_ZERO_DATE and STRICT_TRANS_TABLES. To check and disable it, you can follow the guide below How to disable strict mode

If you still do not have the prerequisites installed, you can see the following guides to install them:

Guides for Linux

Manual Installation

Download the latest versionopen in new window, and extract it where the root of your site will be.
Open a shell and execute the following commands to install the dependencies
```
cd site-directory

composer install --no-plugins --no-scripts
```
Lastly, set permission 755 for all folders and permission 644 for all files in your site root

🎉 Now open a browser tab with your IP/Domain to continue the installation process

Installation with Git

Open a shell and execute the following commands to clone the repository

cd site-directory

git clone https://github.com/WoW-CMS/BlizzCMS.git

Execute the following command to install the dependencies
```
composer install --no-plugins --no-scripts
```
Lastly, set permission 755 for all folders and permission 644 for all files in your site root

🎉 Now open a browser tab with your IP/Domain to continue the installation process

Installation with Docker

Open a shell and execute the following commands to clone the repository

cd site-directory

git clone https://github.com/WoW-CMS/BlizzCMS.git

Edit the file .env.example with your data and rename it to .env

APP_NAME=blizzcms
APP_PORT=<Webserver port>
APP_DB_ADMIN_PORT=<PHPMyAdmin port>
DB_PORT=<MariaDB port>

MYSQL_ROOT_PASS=<Root password>
MYSQL_USER=<New user>
MYSQL_PASS=<User password>
MYSQL_DB=<Database name>

Execute the following command to build the docker image
```
docker-compose build
```
After finishing building the image, execute the following command to start the container
```
docker-compose up -d
```

Lastly, execute the following command to install the dependencies

docker exec -d blizzcms-webserver composer install --no-plugins --no-scripts --no-interaction --no-progress

🎉 Now open a browser tab with your IP/Domain to continue the installation process