Students and new users looking for help installing the latest version of Grav CMS ( 1.5 ) from GitHub using Composer with Nginx and PHP 7.2-FPM support, the steps below should be a great place to start. When you use Composer to install Grav packages, you can easily upgrade from the command line with Composer, which is much simpler. Grav also has a built-in tool that allows webmasters to upgrade easily. but it must be configured first which may be intimidating for new users and students. This brief tutorial is going to show students and new users how to install/upgrade Grav from the GitHub repository via Composer with Nginx and PHP 7.2-FPM support on Ubuntu 16.04 | 18.04 LTS servers. To get started with installing Grav, follow the steps below:

Install Nginx HTTP Server on Ubuntu

Nginx HTTP Server is probably the second most popular web server in use. so install it since Grav needs it. To install Nginx HTTP on the Ubuntu server, run the commands below. After installing Nginx, the commands below can be used to stop, start and enable the Nginx service to always start up with the server boots. To test the Nginx setup, open your browser and browse to the server hostname or IP address and you should see the Nginx default test page as shown below. When you see that, then Nginx is working as expected.

PHP 7.2-FPM may not be available in Ubuntu default repositories. to install it, you will have to get it from third-party repositories. Run the commands below to add the below third party repository to upgrade to PHP 7.2-FPM Then update and upgrade to PHP 7.2-FPM Next, run the commands below to install PHP 7.2 and related modules. After installing PHP 7.2, run the commands below to open the PHP default config file for Nginx. Then make the changes on the following lines below in the file and save. The value below is a great setting to apply in your environment. After making the change above, save the file and closeout. After installing PHP and related modules, all you have to do is restart Nginx to reload PHP configurations. To restart Nginx, run the commands below

Download Grav Latest Release

To get Grav’s latest release you may want to use the GitHub repository. Install Composer, Curl and other dependencies to get started. After installing curl and Composer above, change into the Nginx root directory and download Grav packages from Github. Then run the commands below to set the correct permissions for Grav to function.

Configure Nginx

Finally, configure the Apahce2 site configuration file for Grav. This file will control how users access Grav content. Run the commands below to create a new configuration file called grav Then copy and paste the content below into the file and save it. Replace the highlighted line with your domain name and directory root location. Save the file and exit.

Enable the Grav and Rewrite Module

After configuring the VirtualHost above, enable it by running the commands below Then open your browser and browse to the server domain name. You should see the Grav setup wizard complete. Please follow the wizard carefully. Congratulations. you’ve just successfully installed Grav CMS. To install the Grav admin module, run the commands below. Now to access the admin portal, go to: In the future when you want to upgrade to a new simply run the commands below to upgrade. That’s it! You may also like the post below: