Pimcore provides free and open source enterprise PHP software platform for product information management (PIM), master data management (MDM), customer data management (CDP), digital asset management (DAM), content management (CMS), and digital commerce. It is a web-based application and uses the PHP programming language and the MySQL/MariaDB relational database management system. It provides lots of features including automatic document/PDF generation, E-Commerce integration module, modern interface and much more.
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This tutorial explains the installation procedure of Pimcore on CentOS 7.
Prerequisite
- Minimal CentOS 7 server
- Root privileges
- LAMP Setup – Apache WebServer, MySQL Database, PHP 7
Note: Please follow below links to install LAMP stack on Centos 7.
Pimcore Installation
The easiest way to install Pimcore is from your terminal using Composer. Change into the root folder of your project (please remember project root != document root):
# cd /var/www/html # yum install composer
Choose a package to install
Pimcore is offering 4 different installation packages, 3 demo packages and one skeleton for experienced developers. Run and download any one of the below 4 packages
1. Skeleton Package (only for experienced Pimcore developers)
# COMPOSER_MEMORY_LIMIT=-1 composer create-project pimcore/skeleton pimcore
2. Basic Demo Package (PHP Templates)
# COMPOSER_MEMORY_LIMIT=-1 composer create-project pimcore/demo-basic pimcore
3. Basic Demo Package (Twig Templates)
# COMPOSER_MEMORY_LIMIT=-1 composer create-project pimcore/demo-basic-twig pimcore
4. Advanced Demo Package (E-Commerce, PIM, MDM, DAM, …)
# COMPOSER_MEMORY_LIMIT=-1 composer create-project pimcore/demo-ecommerce pimcore
Point the document root of your vhost to the newly created /web
folder (eg. /var/www/html/pimcore/web
). Keep in mind, that Pimcore needs to be installed outside of the document root as shown in below example vhost config.
<VirtualHost *:80> ServerName pimcore.zoomtutorials.com ServerAlias pimcore.zoomtutorials.com ServerAdmin [email protected] DocumentRoot /var/www/html/pimcore/web ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/error_pimcore.zoomtutorials.com_log </VirtualHost> <Directory "/var/www/html/pimcore/web"> RewriteEngine on AllowOverride All Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> <VirtualHost *:443> ServerName pimcore.zoomtutorials.com ServerAlias pimcore.zoomtutorials.com ServerAdmin [email protected] DocumentRoot /var/www/pimcore/web ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/error_pimcore.zoomtutorials.com_log SSLEngine On SSLCertificateFile /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl/c277df02a6f1b249.crt SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl/i95ssl.key SSLCertificateChainFile /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl/gd_bundle-g2-g1.crt </VirtualHost> <Directory "/var/www/html/pimcore/web"> AllowOverride All Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory>
Pimcore requires write access to the following directories (relative to your project root): /var
, /web/var
Create Database
# mysql -u root -p -e "CREATE DATABASE pimcore_database charset=utf8mb4;"
Launch Installer
# cd ./pimcore
# ./vendor/bin/pimcore-install
This launches the interactive installer with a few questions. Make sure that you set the memory_limit
to at least 512M
in your php.ini file.
Open Admin Interface
After the installer has finished, you can open the admin interface: https://your-host.com/admin
Debugging installation issues
The installer writes a log in var/installer/logs
which contains any errors encountered during the installation. Please have a look at the logs as a starting point when debugging installation issues.
5. Maintenance Cron Job
*/5 * * * * /var/www/html/pimcore/bin/console maintenance
Keep in mind, that the cron job has to run as the same user as the web interface to avoid permission issues (eg. www-data
).
This completes the Pimcore installation tutorial. Enjoy using Pimcore!