Install Craft 3 on Web Server

Question

I scoured the the web to the ends of earth and couldn't find any info on how to install Craft 3 on my VPS. The package I downloaded is unconventional in many ways. Any ideas how to get Craft running?

By the way, why can't Craft 3 be installed like Wordpress?

Answer 1

Here's a tutorial on setting up your first Craft CMS 3 project. I'm a little sad that it didn't come up in any Google searches :(

Setting up a New Craft CMS 3 Project

Answer 2

While Craft 3 is still in beta, the only way to install it is via Composer. If you’re unfamiliar with Composer, it’s a package manager (like npm) that attempts to make installing and updating PHP libraries easy via terminal commands.

Here's an abbreviated form of the steps found in the Craft docs on installing Craft 3:

1. Download Composer on your VPS (instructions here)
2. Create a new Craft project - composer create-project -s RC craftcms/craft PATH
3. Ensure the web server is pointing to the right directory and that your database is setup.
4. Point your browser to http://website-url.com/index.php?p=admin to complete the setup process.
5. With that, you should be running the latest RC of Craft!

I'd recommend checking out the Craft 3 docs and also Ryan Irelan's fantastic videos on Installing Composer and Installing Craft 3. If you have any more questions about the process, don't hesitate to ping me in the comments or post a message in the Craft CMS Slack group.

UPDATE: Pixel & Tonic has mentioned they're hoping to include a .zip download (similar to the Craft 2 installation process) when they fully release Craft 3 on April 4th. Till then, Composer is the only way to download & setup Craft 3.

Answer 3

The Craft 3 docs are still abit rough around the edges if you are starting out with craft they can seem abit intimidating. Anyway the best place for you to start is here -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5PxBmx74V8&t=125s. Its a tutorial by Ryan from Mijingo - Crafts official training partner. Seems like the best place to start :).

Answer 4

yea, craft is little bit tricky when it comes to installation. As craft 3 is based on yii 2.0 [installation of yii 2.0 and craft is similar]. if you have previous experience in working with yii 2 then it should not be problem. Any Way lets make this easier for you.

Lets follow this

1. Install Composer on your server
2. then Run composer create-project -s RC craftcms/craft PATH[your web root path] for creating craft 3 project
3. then edit web server configuration file i.e httpd.conf for apache or nginx.conf file for nginx [this totally depends on your server configuration] change the document root and directory path to craft's web folder. save and restart web server.
4. Now go to your domain/admin and you should see craft 3 installation page.
5. Also Craft 3 doesnot have default template to display anything so you need to create one after you finish your installation so that it will display something when you open your primary domain.