In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and configuration 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 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.
yum clean all yum -y update
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 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 with 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 effects:
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.