Sulu CMS¶
Sulu CMS is a content management platform based on Symfony made for businesses. It’s a flexible CMS to create and manage enterprise multiple sites and a reliable development environment for high-performance apps. With powerful features for developers and a simple UI for editors it’s the ideal engine for state-of-the-art business websites and web-based software.
License¶
Sulu CMS is released under the MIT License. All relevant information can be found in the LICENSE file in the repository of the project.
Prerequisites¶
We’re using PHP in the stable version 8.1:
[isabell@stardust ~]$ uberspace tools version show php
Using 'PHP' version: '8.1'
[isabell@stardust ~]$
You’ll need your MySQL credentials. Get them with my_print_defaults:
[isabell@stardust ~]$ my_print_defaults client
--default-character-set=utf8mb4
--user=isabell
--password=MySuperSecretPassword
[isabell@stardust ~]$
Your domain needs to be set up:
[isabell@stardust ~]$ uberspace web domain list
isabell.uber.space
[isabell@stardust ~]$
Installation¶
Since Sulu CMS uses the subdirectory public/ as document root of your website you should not install Sulu in your default Uberspace DocumentRoot. Instead, we install it next to that and then use a symlink to make it accessible to the web.
cd to one level above your DocumentRoot, then use the PHP Dependency Manager Composer to create a new project based on the Sulu Skeleton.
[isabell@stardust ~]$ cd /var/www/virtual/$USER/
[isabell@stardust isabell]$ composer create-project sulu/skeleton sulucms
Creating a "sulu/skeleton" project at "./sulucms"
Installing sulu/skeleton (2.0.7)
- Installing sulu/skeleton (2.0.7): Loading from cache
Created project in /var/www/virtual/isabell/sulucms
[…]
The recipe for this package contains some Docker configuration.
This may create/update docker-compose.yml or update Dockerfile (if it exists).
Do you want to include Docker configuration from recipes?
[y] Yes
[n] No
[p] Yes permanently, never ask again for this project
[x] No permanently, never ask again for this project
(defaults to y): x
[…]
[isabell@stardust isabell]$
Remove your empty DocumentRoot and create a new symbolic link to the sulucms/public directory.
[isabell@stardust ~]$ cd /var/www/virtual/$USER/
[isabell@stardust isabell]$ rm -f html/nocontent.html; rmdir html
[isabell@stardust isabell]$ ln -s sulucms/public html
[isabell@stardust isabell]$
Configuration¶
During the setup process you need to configure an .env.local file with database credentials. We suggest you use an additional database for Sulu CMS to save your data. You have to create this database first using the following command.
[isabell@stardust ~]$ mysql -e "CREATE DATABASE ${USER}_sulucms"
[isabell@stardust ~]$
Note
As uberspace uses MariaDb, you need to find the version and prefix the serverVersion with mariadb.
[isabell@stardust ~]$ mysql -e "SELECT VERSION()"
+-----------------+
| VERSION() |
+-----------------+
| 10.3.22-MariaDB |
+-----------------+
[isabell@stardust ~]$
Review the sample configuration file .../sulucms/.env. Then edit the .env.local file and change the values of APP_ENV and DATABASE_URL, to reflect your MySQL credentials and save the file.
APP_ENV=prod
DATABASE_URL=mysql://isabell:MySuperSecretPassword@localhost/isabell_sulucms?serverVersion=mariadb-10.3.22
Note
You can optionally configure Sulu to send emails in the same place.
When you’re done with the configuration, populate the database with Sulu’s default data by following the build walkthrough.
[isabell@stardust ~]$ cd /var/www/virtual/$USER/sulucms
[isabell@stardust sulucms]$ ./bin/adminconsole sulu:build prod
Build Targets
=============
+---+--------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
| # | Builder | Deps |
+---+--------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
| 0 | database | |
| 1 | phpcr | database |
| 2 | fixtures | database, phpcr |
| 3 | phpcr_migrations | phpcr |
| 4 | system_collections | database, fixtures |
| 5 | prod | database, phpcr, fixtures, phpcr_migrations, system_collections |
+---+--------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
Options:
- nodeps: false
- destroy: false
- help: false
- quiet: false
- verbose: false
- version: false
- ansi: false
- no-ansi: false
- no-interaction: false
- env: 'prod'
- no-debug: false
Look good? (y)y
[…]
[isabell@stardust ~]$
Sulu will create the database schema and populate it with sample data for the skeleton.
Finishing installation¶
Before we can login, we must create a security role and a first user.
[isabell@stardust ~]$ cd /var/www/virtual/$USER/sulucms
[isabell@stardust sulucms]$ ./bin/adminconsole sulu:security:role:create
Please choose a rolename: admin
Please choose a system:
[0] Sulu
> 0
Created role "admin" in system "Sulu".
[isabell@stardust sulucms]$ ./bin/adminconsole sulu:security:user:create
Please choose a username: isabell
Please choose a FirstName: Isabell
Please choose a LastName: Stardust
Please choose a Email: isabell@stardust.uberspace.de
Please choose a locale
[0] de
[1] en
> 1
Please choose a role:
[0] admin
> 0
Please choose a Password:
Created user "isabell" in role "admin"
[isabell@stardust sulucms]$
To finish the installation you need to point your browser to the sulu administration on your domain (e.g. https://isabell.uber.space/admin/) and login.
Best practices¶
To develop your website, you need to setup a webspace and templates for the pages - Sulu CMS comes as a bare system without any theming. Find out more about the concepts in the Sulu documentation.
You probably want to develop your templates locally on your machine. It’s recommended to initialize a git repository, add a remote and clone from the remote to your machine.
Updates¶
Note
Check the Releases on Github regularly to stay informed about the newest version.
Warning
Follow the upgrade guidelines before updating the code via composer..
To update Sulu CMS you can run the following command in the root directory of the application.
[isabell@stardust ~]$ cd /var/www/virtual/$USER/sulucms
[isabell@stardust sulucms]$ composer update
Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies (including require-dev)
[…]
[isabell@stardust ~]$
Tested with Sulu CMS v2.5.3, Uberspace 7.13, and PHP 8.1
Written by: Clemens Krack <info@clemenskrack.com>