Winter CMS Web Installer

A web-based installation script that will install a fresh copy of Winter CMS. This is the recommended method of installation for non-technical users. It is simpler than the command-line installation or Composer methods and does not require any special skills.

For developers, we recommend the following methods:

• Composer installation
• Command-line installation

Installation

NOTE: This installer installs Winter CMS 1.2, which requires PHP 8.0 or above. If you are still running PHP 7.4 or below, please use v1.0.2 of this installer, which installs Winter 1.1. Do note that this branch of Winter is now end-of-life and will only be receiving security fixes.

1. Prepare an empty directory on the web server that will host your Winter CMS installation. It can be a main domain, sub-domain or subfolder.
2. Download the "install.zip" file from the latest release of the Winter CMS Web Installer into this folder.
3. Unzip the downloaded ZIP file.
4. Grant write permissions to all files and folders that were extracted.
5. In your web browser, navigate to the URL pointing to that folder, and include /install.html at the end of the URL.
6. Follow the instructions given in the installer.

Links

For further information and requirements for Winter CMS, consult the documentation. To review the files that will be installed, visit the main Winter CMS repository.

Development

The Web installer is built on VueJS and uses a primarily NodeJS-driven development pipeline, but does contain a PHP API element to run checks on the system and perform the installation of Winter CMS. You will need the following:

• node v14 or above.
• npm v6 or above.
• php v8.0 or above

To install all necessary dependencies, run the following:

npm install

You will also need to install the PHP dependencies located in the public/install/api directory. Run the following from the root directory to do so:

composer --working-dir=./public/install/api install

Development server (hot-reloading)

The included dependencies include a simple web-server which performs hot-reloading of the app when changes are made. To start this server, run the following:

npm run dev

You will be given a URL in which you can review the application in your browser.

When developing in this format, you will need to provide a URL in order to access the PHP API file located in public/install/api.php. You will need to create a file called .env.local inside the root folder of your development copy, and add the following line:

VITE_APP_INSTALL_URL="<path>"

Substituting <path> with the URL to the public/install directory as it would be located on your web server. You can run the in-built PHP server to serve this, by navigating to this folder and running the following command:

php -S 127.0.0.1:8081

In following the above, the .env.local file should contain the following:

VITE_APP_INSTALL_URL="http://127.0.0.1:8081"

Building the application

Building the application is a piece of cake! Simply run the following:

npm run build

The build will then be made available in the dist subfolder.

Linting

This application is built on a strict code formatting and quality standard, and will be checked on commit. If you want to fix common issues and check that your code meets the standard, you can run the following:

npm run lint