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+# Installing Cerebrate on RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL 8)
+>This installation instructions assume SELinux is enabled, and in Enforcing mode.
+>and that you want to keep it that way :)
+>You need to be root when running these commands.
+
+## Prerequisites
+>Install needed packages:
+```Shell
+dnf install @httpd mariadb-server git @php unzip sqlite vim wget  php-intl php-ldap php-mysqlnd php-pdo php-zip
+```
+## Install composer 
+>Instructions taken from https://getcomposer.org/download/
+```PHP
+cd /root
+php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"
+php -r "if (hash_file('sha384', 'composer-setup.php') === '55ce33d7678c5a611085589f1f3ddf8b3c52d662cd01d4ba75c0ee0459970c2200a51f492d557530c71c15d8dba01eae') { echo 'Installer verified'; } else { echo 'Installer corrupt'; unlink('composer-setup.php'); } echo PHP_EOL;"
+php composer-setup.php --install-dir=/usr/bin --filename=composer
+php -r "unlink('composer-setup.php');"
+```
+
+## Prepare MySQL for cerebrate
+>Enable and start mysql database. Select a secure password for root user, delete test user and database. 
+
+```Shell
+systemctl start mariadb
+systemctl enable mariadb
+mysql_secure_installation
+```
+### Create a new database, user and password for cerebrate
+```Shell
+mysql -u root -p
+```
+```SQL
+CREATE DATABASE cerebrate;
+CREATE USER 'cerebrate'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'CHANGE_ME_PASSWORD';
+GRANT USAGE ON *.* to cerebrate@localhost;
+GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON cerebrate.* to cerebrate@localhost;
+FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
+QUIT;
+```
+## Allow ports through the firewall
+```Shell
+firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-service=http         --permanent 
+firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=8001/tcp        --permanent
+```
+> reload firewall and show applied firewall rules
+```Shell
+firewall-cmd --reload
+firewall-cmd --zone public --list-all
+```
+
+## Main Cerebrate Installation
+>Steps to install Cerebrate on RHEL
+
+### Clone this repository
+```Shell
+mkdir /var/www/cerebrate
+git clone https://github.com/cerebrate-project/cerebrate.git /var/www/cerebrate
+```
+
+### Run composer
+```Shell
+mkdir -p /var/www/.composer
+chown -R apache.apache  /var/www/.composer
+chown -R apache.apache  /var/www/cerebrate
+cd /var/www/cerebrate
+composer install 
+```
+>you will see a prompt: \
+>`Do you trust "cakephp/plugin-installer" to execurte code and wish to enable it now? (writes "allow-plugins" to composer.json) [y,n,d,?]` \
+>*repond with* `y` \
+>`Do you trust "dealerdirect/phpcodesniffer-composer-installer" to execute code and wish to enable it now? (writes "allow-plugins" to composer.json) [y,n,d,?]` \
+>*repond with* `y`
+
+### Create your local configuration and set the db credentials
+```Shell
+cp -a /var/www/cerebrate/config/app_local.example.php /var/www/cerebrate/config/app_local.php
+cp -a /var/www/cerebrate/config/config.example.json /var/www/cerebrate/config/config.json
+```
+
+### Modify the Datasource -> default array's in file `app_local.php`
+>Simply modify the `Datasources` section, to reflect your values for: username, password, and database 
+>fields, as configured in the above [#create-a-new-database-user-and-password-for-cerebrate](<#create-a-new-database-user-and-password-for-cerebrate>)
+```Shell
+vim /var/www/cerebrate/config/app_local.php
+```
+```PHP
+    'Datasources' => [
+        'default' => [
+            'host' => 'localhost',
+            'username' => 'cerebrate',
+            'password' => 'CHANGE_ME_PASSWORD',
+            'database' => 'cerebrate',
+            ...
+```
+
+### Run the database schema migrations
+```Shell
+usermod -s /bin/bash apache
+
+chown -R apache.apache  /var/www/.composer
+chown -R apache.apache  /var/www/cerebrate
+
+su apache <<'EOFi'
+/var/www/cerebrate/bin/cake migrations migrate
+/var/www/cerebrate/bin/cake migrations migrate -p tags
+/var/www/cerebrate/bin/cake migrations migrate -p ADmad/SocialAuth
+EOFi
+
+usermod -s /sbin/nologin apache
+```
+
+
+### Clean cakephp caches
+```Shell
+rm /var/www/cerebrate/tmp/cache/models/*
+rm /var/www/cerebrate/tmp/cache/persistent/*
+```
+
+### copy the Apache httpd template to the default apache configuration folder
+> in our case we used apache to serve this website, NGINX could also be used.
+```Shell
+cp -v /var/www/cerebrate/INSTALL/cerebrate_apache_dev.conf /etc/httpd/conf.d/.
+mkdir /var/log/apache2
+chown apache.root -R /var/log/apache2
+restorecon -Rv /etc/httpd/conf.d/*
+restorecon -Rv /var/log/*
+```
+### Make changes to the apache httpd site configuration file
+>Edit the file `/etc/httpd/conf.d/cerebrate_apache_dev.conf` change the two references of port 8000 to 8001
+```Shell
+vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/cerebrate_apache_dev.conf
+```
+### Make changes to SELinux
+>From the SELinux Manual page [services with non standard ports](<https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/using_selinux/configuring-selinux-for-applications-and-services-with-non-standard-configurations_using-selinux>)
+>We need SELinux to allow httpd to connect to our custom port 8001/tcp
+```SELinux Policy
+semanage port -a -t http_port_t -p tcp 8001
+```
+>Change SELinux context for folder /var/www/cerebrate
+```SELinux Policy
+semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_content_t "/var/www/cerebrate(/.*)?"
+restorecon -Rv /var/www/cerebrate/
+chown apache.apache /var/www/cerebrate
+```
+
+## Apply changes/restart Apache httpd
+>Look out for any errors during restart.
+```
+systemctl enable httpd
+systemctl restart httpd
+```
+
+## Point your browser to: http://localhost:8001
+> If everything worked, you should be able to log in using the default credentials below:
+
+```
+Username: admin
+Password: Password1234
+```