In this tutorial we will show you how to install and configuration of WeBid Auction on your CentOS 7 server. 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. eleased under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). It is the best solution to build auction web sites.
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 through the step by step installation WeBid Auction on a CentOS 7 server.
Install WeBid Auction on CentOS 7
Step 1. First let’s start by ensuring your system is up-to-date.
1 2 | yumcleanall yum-yupdate |
Step 2. Install 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 required PHP modules:
1 | yuminstallphp-mysqlphp-gdphp-ldapphp-xmlphp-xmlrpcphp-mbstringphp-mcryptcurlzlib |
Step 3. Installing WeBid Auction.
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:
1 | wgethttp://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:
1 2 | unzipwebid.zip mvWeBid//var/www/html/your-domain.com |
We will need to change some folders permissions:
1 | chownapache: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 steps carefully which will set root password, remove anonymous users, disallow remote root login, and remove the test database and access to secure MariaDB:
1 | mysql_secure_installation |
Configure it like this:
1 2 3 4 5 | -Setrootpassword?[Y/n]y -Removeanonymoususers?[Y/n]y -Disallowrootloginremotely?[Y/n]y -Removetestdatabaseandaccesstoit?[Y/n]y -Reloadprivilegetablesnow?[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:
1 | mysql-uroot-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:
1 2 3 4 5 6 | SETGLOBALsql_mode=''; CREATEUSERwebid; CREATEDATABASEwebiddb; GRANTALLPRIVILEGESONwebiddb.*TO'webid'@'localhost'IDENTIFIEDBY'your-password'WITHGRANTOPTION; FLUSHPRIVILEGES; 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 with using a text editor of your choice:
1 2 | nano/etc/httpd/conf.d/vhosts.conf IncludeOptionalvhosts.d/*.conf |
Next, create the virtual host:
1 2 | mkdir/etc/httpd/vhosts.d/ nano/etc/httpd/vhosts.d/yourdomain.com.conf |
Add the following lines:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 | <VirtualHostYOUR_SERVER_IP:80> ServerAdminwebmaster@yourdomain.com DocumentRoot"/var/www/html/your-domain.com/" ServerNameyourdomain.com ServerAliaswww.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/"> DirectoryIndexindex.htmlindex.php OptionsFollowSymLinks AllowOverrideAll Requireallgranted </Directory> </VirtualHost> |
Save and close the file. Restart the apache service for the changes to take effects:
1 | systemctlrestarthttpd.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://yourdomain.com or http://server-ip and complete the required the steps to finish the installation. If you are using a firewall, please open port 80 to enable access to the control panel.
Congratulation’s! You have successfully installed 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 web site.
