How to install Open Real Estate on Ubuntu 14.04

Open Real Estate is a free software for building websites of real estate agencies and realtors. Open Real Estate CMS is a modern, secure product with high speed. It is based on Yii CMF – one of the fast working modern frameworks. It is fairly easy to install Open Real Estate on an Ubuntu 14.04 Cloud VPS. The installation process should take about 5-10 minutes if you follow the very easy steps described below.

At the time of writing this tutorial, Open Real Estate 1.15.1 is the latest stable version available and it requires:

– Apache web server;
– PHP (version 5.3 or higher) with GD graphics library, curl and mbstring extension library;
– MySQL(version 5.1 or higher) installed on your Linux Cloud VPS;

INSTRUCTIONS

Log in to your VPS via SSH

ssh user@cloud_vps_IP

Update the system

[user]$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y upgrade

Install MariaDB 10.0

To install MariaDB, run the following command:

[user]$ sudo apt-get install -y mariadb-server

Next, we need to create a database for our Open Real Estate installation:

[user]$ mysql -u root -p

MariaDB [(none)]> CREATE DATABASE openrealestate;
MariaDB [(none)]> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON openrealestate.* TO 'openuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'your-password';
MariaDB [(none)]> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
MariaDB [(none)]> \q

Do not forget to replace ‘your-password’ with a strong password.

Install Apache2 web server

[user]$ sudo apt-get install apache2

Install PHP and required PHP modules

To install the latest stable version of PHP and all necessary modules, run:

[user]$ sudo apt-get install php5 libapache2-mod-php5 php5-mcrypt php5-mysql php5-gd php5-curl

Download and extract the latest version of Open Real Estate on your server:

[user]$ sudo cd /opt && wget http://open-real-estate.info/files/OpenRealEstateV1.15.1_en.zip
[user]$ mkdir openrealestate
[user]$ sudo unzip OpenRealEstateV1.15.1_en.zip -d openrealestate/
[user]$ sudo mv openrealestate/ /var/www/html/openrealestate/

All files have to be readable by the web server, so set the proper ownership:

[user]$ sudo chown www-data:www-data -R /var/www/html/openrealestate

Create a new virtual host directive in Apache. For example, create a new Apache configuration file named ‘openrealestate.conf’ on your virtual server:

[user]$ sudo touch /etc/apache2/sites-available/openrealestate.conf
[user]$ sudo ln -s /etc/apache2/sites-available/openrealestate.conf /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/openrealestate.conf
[user]$ sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/openrealestate.conf

Then, add the following lines:

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin [email protected]
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/openrealestate/
ServerName your-domain.com
ServerAlias www.your-domain.com
<Directory /var/www/html/openrealestate/>
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/your-domain.com-error_log
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/your-domain.com-access_log common
</VirtualHost>

Restart the Apache web server for the changes to take effect:

[user]$ sudo service apache2 restart

Open your favorite web browser, navigate to http://your-domain.com/ and if you configured everything correctly the Open Real Estate installer should be starting. You should follow the easy instructions on the install screen inserting the necessary information as requested.

That is it. The Open Real Estate installation is now complete.

For security reasons, it is recommended to set the ‘/var/www/html/openrealestate/protected/config/db.php’ file permissions to 644 once you are done with the installation process.

Of course you don’t have to do any of this if you use one of our Linux Cloud VPS Hosting services, in which case you can simply ask our expert Linux admins to install Open Real Estate for you. They are available 24×7 and will take care of your request immediately.

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