Featured Install Quick Centmin Mod Install + Nginx Vhost Site + MySQL Database Setup

Centmin Mod has a lot of documentation on official centminmod.com site and forums which is highly suggested reading if you want to learn about and use Centmin Mod LEMP stacks. But here's a quick guide to installing Centmin Mod 123.09beta01 on recommended CentOS 7.x 64bit fresh virgin OS. For more advanced install guides see Centmin Mod Advanced Customised Installation Guide.

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Quick Links

• Guide to learning about Centmin Mod
• Centmin Mod Install Info Slides
• Post install, Getting Started Guide - CentminMod.com LEMP Nginx web stack for CentOS
• Config File Structure
• FAQ
• How To Keep Informed Of Centmin Mod Related Updates

Quick Install & Setup

Install Centmin Mod latest beta + set nginx vhost domain = domain.com with letsencrypt ssl certificate and http/2 https default (with http to https redirect can be done in a few SSH commands.

Centmin Mod Install

Update March 22, 2019: Note, if you are using Centmin Mod LEMP stack via DigitalOcean 1-click App Marketplace listing launched droplet, you DO NOT need to do this curl install step as Centmin Mod LEMP stack is pre-installed on DigitalOcean 1-click App Marketplace listed app.

Code (Text):

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

Enable Letsencrypt integration by setting LETSENCRYPT_DETECT='y' variable in Centmin Mod persistent config file at /etc/centminmod/custom_config.inc. The persistent config file allows you to customise and override Centmin Mod default settings/variables set it centmin.sh without actually modifying centmin.sh so your custom settings persist when Centmin Mod local code is updated at /usr/local/src/centminmod (from 123.09beta01 and higher that install directory is git backed as outlined here.)

Code (Text):

touch /etc/centminmod/custom_config.inc
echo "LETSENCRYPT_DETECT='y'" >> /etc/centminmod/custom_config.inc

Create a new Nginx vhost site with letsencrypt free ssl certificate where domain.com and www.domain.com DNS A record point to server IP using either addons/acmetool.sh outlined at Letsencrypt - Official acmetool.sh testing thread for Centmin Mod 123.09beta01

Ensure intended vhost domain name's DNS is set and propagated to point A/AAAA DNS records to the server's IP address before running Centmin Mod Nginx vhost commands, otherwise Letsencrypt webroot authentication's domain validation will fail.

Code (Text):

cd /usr/local/src/centminmod/addons
./acmetool.sh issue domain.com lived

or nv command line

Code (Text):

nv -d domain.com -s lelived -u ftpusername

nv command help examples

Code (Text):

nv

Usage: /usr/bin/nv [-d yourdomain.com] [-s y|n|yd|le|led|lelive|lelived] [-u ftpusername]

  -d  yourdomain.com or subdomain.yourdomain.com
  -s  ssl self-signed create = y or n or https only vhost = yd
  -s  le - letsencrypt test cert or led test cert with https default
  -s  lelive - letsencrypt live cert or lelived live cert with https default
  -u  your FTP username

  example:

  /usr/bin/nv -d yourdomain.com -s y -u ftpusername
  /usr/bin/nv -d yourdomain.com -s n -u ftpusername
  /usr/bin/nv -d yourdomain.com -s yd -u ftpusername
  /usr/bin/nv -d yourdomain.com -s le -u ftpusername
  /usr/bin/nv -d yourdomain.com -s led -u ftpusername
  /usr/bin/nv -d yourdomain.com -s lelive -u ftpusername
  /usr/bin/nv -d yourdomain.com -s lelived -u ftpusername

or via centmin.sh shell menu option 2

Code (Text):

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     Centmin Mod Menu 123.09beta01 centminmod.com
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1).  Centmin Install
2).  Add Nginx vhost domain
3).  NSD setup domain name DNS
4).  Nginx Upgrade / Downgrade
5).  PHP Upgrade / Downgrade
6).  XCache Re-install
7).  APC Cache Re-install
8).  XCache Install
9).  APC Cache Install
10). Memcached Server Re-install
11). MariaDB MySQL Upgrade & Management
12). Zend OpCache Install/Re-install
13). Install/Reinstall Redis PHP Extension
14). SELinux disable
15). Install/Reinstall ImagicK PHP Extension
16). Change SSHD Port Number
17). Multi-thread compression: pigz,pbzip2,lbzip2...
18). Suhosin PHP Extension install
19). Install FFMPEG and FFMPEG PHP Extension
20). NSD Install/Re-Install
21). Update - Nginx + PHP-FPM + Siege
22). Add Wordpress Nginx vhost + Cache Plugin
23). Update Centmin Mod Code Base
24). Exit
--------------------------------------------------------
Enter option [ 1 - 24 ] 2
--------------------------------------------------------

Code (Text):

Important Information
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You are about to create an Nginx vhost site account with/without
HTTPS/SSL support. Details of this process are outlined on site
at centminmod.com/nginx_domain_dns_setup.html. Also read the
continually updated Getting Started Guide for Centmin Mod usage
at centminmod.com/getstarted.html which covers the pure-ftpd
ftp username that is auto generated with the Nginx vhost site.
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403 Permission denied message handling
if after vhost site setup you encounter 403 permission denied errors,
check https://community.centminmod.com/threads/7308/ to see if your
site needs tools/autoprotect.sh tweaking/whitelisting
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Do you want to continue with Nginx vhost site creation ? [y/n] y

Enter vhost domain name to add (without www. prefix): domain.com

Create a self-signed SSL certificate Nginx vhost? [y/n]: n
Get Letsencrypt SSL certificate Nginx vhost? [y/n]: y

Code (Text):

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To get Letsencrypt SSL certificate, you must already have updated intended
domain vhost name's DNS A record to this server's IP addresss.
If top level domain, DNS A record is needed also for www. version of domain
otherwise, Letsencrypt domain name validation will fail.
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continue [y/n] ? y

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You have 4 options:
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1. issue staging test cert with HTTP + HTTPS (untrusted)
2. issue staging test cert with HTTPS default (untrusted)
3. issue live cert with HTTP + HTTPS (trusted)
4. issue live cert with HTTPS default (trusted)
Enter option number 1-4:

Create MySQL database named = mydb with username = myadmin and password = mypass using addons/mysqladmin_shell.sh mysqladmin_shell.sh Shell based Addon

Code (Text):

/usr/local/src/centminmod/addons/mysqladmin_shell.sh createuserdb mydb myadmin mypass
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Basic MySQL Admin - create mysql user & databases
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Grants for myadmin@localhost
GRANT USAGE ON *.* TO 'myadmin'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY PASSWORD '*6C8989366EAF75BB670AD8EA7A7FC1176A95CEF4'
GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE, DROP, INDEX, ALTER, CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES, LOCK TABLES, EXECUTE ON `mydb`.* TO 'myadmin'@'localhost'

Ok: MySQL user: myadmin MySQL database: mydb created successfully

If that is too much for install, I also have official Linode stackscript for automated Centmin Mod installs at Linode - official centmin mod Linode stackscript and eventually official Centmin Mod LEMP stack preinstalled via DigitalOcean Marketplace For 1 Click Applications.

So there's various ways to create domain nginx vhosts and mysql databases etc so you can script or automate your own setups. But yes, you're not going to know all this without reading and practicing