How To Install WeBid Auction on CentOS 7

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and configure WeBid Auction on your CentOS 7.  For those of you who didn’t know, WeBid is an open-source auction software written in PHP and supports Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X on the server side. released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). It is the best solution to build auction websites.

This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation WeBid Auction on a CentOS 7 server.

Prerequisites

• A server running one of the following operating systems: CentOS 7.
• It’s recommended that you use a fresh OS install to prevent any potential issues.
• A non-root sudo user or access to the root user. We recommend acting as a non-root sudo user, however, as you can harm your system if you’re not careful when acting as the root.

Install WeBid Auction on CentOS 7

Step 1. First, let’s start by ensuring your system is up-to-date.

yum clean all
yum -y update

Step 2. Install the LAMP server.

A CentOS 7 LAMP stack server is required. If you do not have LAMP installed, you can follow our guide here. Also, install the required PHP modules:

yum install php-mysql php-gd php-ldap php-xml php-xmlrpc php-mbstring php-mcrypt curl zlib

Step 3. Installing WeBid Auction.

The first thing to do is to go to WeBid Auction’s download page and download the latest stable version of WeBid Auction, At the moment of writing this article it is version 1.2:

wget http://jaist.dl.sourceforge.net/project/simpleauction/simpleauction/WeBid%20v1.2/WeBid-1.2.zip -O webid.zip

Unpack the WeBid Auction archive to the document root directory on your server:

unzip webid.zip
mv WeBid/ /var/www/html/your-domain.com

We will need to change some folders permissions:

chown apache:apache -R /var/www/html/your-domain.com/

Step 4. Configuring MariaDB for WeBid Auction.

By default, MariaDB is not hardened. You can secure MariaDB using the mysql_secure_installation script. you should read and below each step carefully which will set a root password, remove anonymous users, disallow remote root login, and remove the test database and access to secure MariaDB:

mysql_secure_installation

Configure it like this:

- Set root password? [Y/n] y
- Remove anonymous users? [Y/n] y
- Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n] y
- Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n] y
- Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n] y

Next, we will need to log in to the MariaDB console and create a database for the WeBid Auction. Run the following command:

mysql -u root -p

This will prompt you for a password, so enter your MariaDB root password and hit Enter. Once you are logged in to your database server you need to create a database for WeBid Auction installation:

SET GLOBAL sql_mode='';
CREATE USER webid;
CREATE DATABASE webiddb;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON webiddb.* TO 'webid'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'your-password' WITH GRANT OPTION;
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
quit

Step 5. Configuring Apache web server for WeBid Auction.

We will create Apache virtual host for your WeBid Auction website. First, create ‘/etc/httpd/conf.d/vhosts.conf’ file using a text editor of your choice:

nano /etc/httpd/conf.d/vhosts.conf
IncludeOptional vhosts.d/*.conf

Next, create the virtual host:

mkdir /etc/httpd/vhosts.d/
nano /etc/httpd/vhosts.d/yourdomain.com.conf

Add the following lines:

<VirtualHost YOUR_SERVER_IP:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@yourdomain.com
DocumentRoot "/var/www/html/your-domain.com/"
ServerName yourdomain.com
ServerAlias www.yourdomain.com
ErrorLog "/var/log/httpd/yourdomain.com-error_log"
CustomLog "/var/log/httpd/yourdomain.com-access_log" combined

<Directory "/var/www/html/your-domain.com/">
DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Save and close the file. Restart the apache service for the changes to take effect:

systemctl restart httpd.service

Step 6. Accessing WeBid Auction.

WeBid auction will be available on HTTP port 80 by default. Open your favorite browser and navigate to http://your-domain.com or http://server-ip-address and complete the required steps to finish the installation. If you are using a firewall, please open port 80 to enable access to the control panel.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed the WeBid auction. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing WeBid auction software on your CentOS 7 system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you to check the official WeBid Auction website.

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