Featured DigitalOcean Centmin Mod Nginx LNMP install on CentOS 7.0 KVM VPS

DigitalOcean now has a CentOS 7.0 OS template for their KVM VPS droplet servers so decided to test out my latest Centmin Mod .08 beta which is being tested specifically for CentOS 7.0 operating system compatibility. Please note, Centmin Mod .08 beta is not suited to production live usage yet - so feedback and testing is very much appreciated

Centmin Mod .08 beta install methods

There are two methods to install Centmin Mod .08 beta on CentOS 7.0 DigitalOcean KVM VPS droplet server as outlined at CentOS 7.x - How to help test .08 CentOS 7 Betas with Github code ? | Centmin Mod Community

Method 1: Use instructions outlined on README on 123.08centos7beta01 branch at centminmod/centminmod at 123.08centos7beta01 · GitHub

Method 2: Use the new installer.sh CLI command line unattended installation script located at here. To use this script, on a fresh virgin CentOS 7.0 64bit type this one line command in SSH window as root user:

Code (Text):

yum -y update; curl -O https://centminmod.com/betainstaller.sh && chmod 0700 betainstaller.sh && bash betainstaller.sh

Creating DigitalOcean CentOS 7 Droplet

First step is to create the DigitalOcean droplet and fill in the desired hostname for your server. This hostname will also become the default hostname for Centmin Mod installed Nginx as outlined in step 1 of the Getting Started guide.

Select the droplet size/plan and droplet region and then select the CentOS 7.0 x64 operating system image. If you previously setup DigitalOcean SSH keys, you can select those for adding to your DigitalOcean droplet server. Keep VirtIO enabled.



Now wait while droplet is being created


Once droplet is created you will be shown the droplet management page as seen below.

Centmin Mod .08 beta install on CentOS 7.0 DigitalOcean Droplet

Now it's time to log into your DigitalOcean CentOS 7.0 x64 droplet server via SSH. I use SecureCRT SSH client to log in via creating a new SSH session to connect to my droplet's ip address via root user and using SSH key method. If you do not use SSH keys, then you will use root password method to log into your CentOS 7 droplet.



For this guide I will use traditional method 1, the Centmin Mod menu install method to install Centmin Mod on CentOS 7.0 droplet. Instructions are outlined on 123.08centos7beta01 Github branch page.

Update: As at 24/12/2015, 123.09beta01 is latest branch in beta series

Type in SSH window:

Code (Text):

yum -y update; curl -O https://centminmod.com/betainstaller.sh && chmod 0700 betainstaller.sh && bash betainstaller.sh

For menu mode, type in SSH window

Code (Text):

./centmin.sh

You'll see the Centmin Mod main menu as shown below. Enter the number 1 for option 1 to install Centmin Mod LNMP web stack. This will do the entire installation in unattended mode, so depending on speed of your server it can take between 10-30 minutes to install.



At end of installation, you'll have a long list of info including a Post-Install check list showing the main software installed and their version info, along with location and paths to memcache.php stats page and login user/pass as well as the default generated MariaDB 10 MySQL root password which is also located at /root/.my.cnf.







Your Centmin Mod .08 beta LNMP web stack install on DigitalOcean CentOS 7.0 KVM VPS droplet is complete and you can now proceed to the Getting Started Guide. If you have problems or errors, check out the initial install troubleshooting guide.

Final Nginx configuration

Final PHP-FPM configuration

PHP extensions/modules loaded

Code:

php -m
[PHP Modules]
apc
bcmath
bz2
calendar
Core
ctype
curl
date
dom
enchant
ereg
exif
filter
ftp
gd
gettext
gmp
hash
iconv
igbinary
imagick
imap
intl
json
libxml
mbstring
memcache
memcached
mhash
mysql
mysqli
mysqlnd
openssl
pcntl
pcre
PDO
pdo_mysql
pdo_sqlite
Phar
posix
pspell
readline
Reflection
session
shmop
SimpleXML
soap
sockets
SPL
sqlite3
standard
sysvmsg
sysvsem
sysvshm
tidy
tokenizer
xml
xmlreader
xmlrpc
xmlwriter
zip
zlib

[Zend Modules]

MariaDB 10.0.13 MySQL

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