Today we’re going to show you how you can install the modern and ultra powerful Concrete CMS directly to your ChemiCloud hosting account!

Install Concrete CMS on ChemiCloud

First, be sure to log into your ChemiCloud cPanel. This is your hosting control panel.

Now that you’re in, scroll down. Find the Softaculous App Installer icon here in the cPanel. Now – click or select it.

A new page will load, with a menu down the left side of the screen. On that menu, select ‘Portals/CMS’. When that sub-menu expands, we’ll find Concrete CMS on it. Click on Concrete CMS!

Take a moment to review the page.

Concrete CMS offers an overview of their product, with a direct link to their support site.

Further, tabs along the top of this page allow you to read up on popular Features, view screenshots, and even demo the software ahead of an install. Concrete CMS offers great transparency too, with Ratings and Reviews just a click away – allowing you to see just what other users have to say!

If you have an existing Concrete CMS installation, the Import tab allows you to start the process of moving your CMS here to ChemiCloud!

Install Concrete CMS, Step-by-Step.

To install Concrete CMS – click the Install or Install Now button on the Overview.

During setup, you’ll get to choose where to install Concrete. You can choose a domain, or even a specific directory of your site. And, you can choose from several versions of the software to fit your taste and requirements.

Under Site Settings, you can choose a common name for your Concrete installation, and add a check to the box if you’d like sample data to be generated in your new CMS.

For the Admin Account, choose a username and password and be sure to include a working Admin Email address, which you can use for password recovery.

If you have a specific database to use or configure, use the Advanced Options to make those selections.

Finally, when you’re all ready – click ‘Install‘ at the bottom of the page. This will kick off the installation process.

All your input will be checked and if all is good – you’ll see this Congratulations message!

In Closing – Mission Accomplished!

Congratulations – it only took a few minutes to install Concrete CMS to your ChemiCloud account!

Use the details on this final page for logging in and managing your new site! If you provided an email address during installation, you’ll also receive an email with the login details as well.

Thanks so much for checking out this walk through, and have a fantastic day!

What is Laravel?

Laravel is an open-source PHP framework using those technicalities to create innovation and fresh sets of web applications. It can be useful in the world of web page development. Create full-featured websites using Laravel. The essential functions of PHP’s are well covered under Laravel. Laravel framework makes the implementation of authentication techniques very simple. Almost everything is configured perfectly. Laravel provides a very simple way to organize authorization logic and control access to various resources.

Widely considered the best framework because it has Object Oriented libraries and other pre-installed ones, which are not found in any other PHP frameworks. One of the pre-installed libraries is the Authentication library. It has many advanced features like checking active users, Bcrypt hashing, password reset, CSRF (Cross-site Request Forgery) protection, and encryption.

Laravel framework offers a build-in tool named Artisan. This tool allows a developer to perform the majority of those repetitive and tedious programming tasks which most of the developers avoid performing manually.

Another reason which makes Laravel the best PHP framework is it supports MVC Architecture like Symfony, ensuring clarity between logic and presentation. MVC helps in improving the performance, allows better documentation, and has multiple built-in functionalities. Here’s how the MVC works for Laravel.

Laravel also takes care of the security within its framework. It uses the hashed password, which means that the password would never save as the plain text in the database. Laravel framework uses prepared SQL statements which make injection attacks unimaginable.

With Laravel framework database migrations, it is extremely easy. As long as you keep all of the database work in migrations and seeds, you can easily migrate the changes into any other development machine you have.

Developers always need to learn more in order to deliver more. Laravel offers Laracasts features which is a mix of free and paid video tutorials that show you how to use Laravel for development. The videos are all created by Jeffery Way, an expert instructor. The video quality is high, and the lessons are well-thought-out and meaningful.

Furthermore, the Blade templating engine of the Laravel framework is very intuitive and helps to work with the typical PHP/HTML spaghetti so perfect, that’s it one of the best features of the Laravel framework.

The Laravel Responsible Interface is a newly added feature in the Laravel framework with the release of Laravel 5.5. It is defined as a class that is used to implement the interface which can be returned by using the controller method.

Some popular websites developed using Laravel are:

• Alison.com
• Barchart.com
• Neighborhood Lender
• World Walking

How To Install Laravel in Softaculous

Laravel is available to install in your Softaculous Apps Installer. Follow the steps below to install Laravel.

Step 1: Login to your cPanel. There’s a lot of ways to do this, but the sure-fire easiest way is to log in to your Client Area, then open your cPanel.

Step 2: Scroll down to the Software section of cPanel and click Softaculous Apps Installer to open the utility.

Step 3: Once Softaculous is open, use the search in the top left corner to search for Laravel.

Click it once the result is returned.

The Laravel frameworks page will load. Click the blue Install Now Button to install Laravel.

Step 4: Choose the directory in which you want to install Laravel, then click the blue Install button.

And that’s it! Now Laravel is installed.

Now, go code and have fun!

Let’s say you’re a WordPress designer and you do sites for clients. In your WordPress setup, you have a base configuration of X plugins and X themes you always start with. You can create this site in Softaculous, then clone it each time you get a new client.

Super handy! This Knowledge Base article will cover how to clone a website in Softaculous.

How to clone a website using Softaculous

Step 1: Login to your cPanel. There’s a lot of ways to do this, but the sure fire easiest way is to login to your Client Area, then open your cPanel.

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Step 2: Scroll down to the Software section and open the Softaculous Apps Installer .

Step 3: When Softaculous opens, click the blue Installations button to see a list of your Installations.

Step 4: Click the Clone icon on the same line as the site you wish to clone.

Step 5: On the Cloning WordPress page, you have a few settings. Let’s examine them:

At the top, you need to choose the directory in which you wish to install the cloned site. This can be at the root of your domain, for example: https://www.yourdomain.com/, or it can be in another folder, such as /client1 or /site2.

After this, you need to choose the name of the database. If you keep track of your databases by naming them, this would be where you would enter the name of that new database. Or you can just insert a random number at the end.

Beneath Site settings, you have the option to disable search engine visibility for the new site. Remember, not all search engines will respect this option.

You also have the option to enter the Site Name. This is optional, you can configure this later in WordPress if you want.

Lastly, when you ready, click Clone Installation.

Softaculous will do a check to ensure the settings are okay and will clone the site:

After the clone is complete, you will see a success message:

And that’s it! Now you have cloned your WordPress site!

How to Automatically Import Your Existing Application Installation in Softaculous

To import your existing installation automatically please follow the steps below:

1. Access your Softaculous Apps Installer
2. Click the Import Installations  from the top menu.

3. On the “Import Installations” page choose the “Manual Installations” option.

4. Click on the Start scanning for installations button

5. You will see a confirmation message: The installations listed below have been successfully imported into Softaculous.

You can now manage the installations via Softaculous > Scripts Installations.

How to Manually Import Your Existing Application Installation in Softaculous

To import your existing installation manually please follow the steps below:

1. Access your Softaculous Apps Installer
2. Find the application which you want to import from the left menu. Or you can use the search functionality. We’ll use WordPress for our example.
3. On the Import software page click the Import tab

4. On the new page you will see 3 sections:

• Choose Protocol – if your site is using an SSL then you should choose https protocol.
• Choose Domain – choose the domain on which the app is installed.
• In Directory – if your application is installed in the public_html folder and is accessible via your main domain name leave the fields empty and click Import. If the application is in a subfolder type the name of the subfolder in the “In Directory” field and click Import

5. You will see a confirmation message:  Congratulations, the software was imported successfully.

You can now manage the installations via Softaculous > Scripts Installations.

That’s a wrap!

In cPanel you have two options to install applications with just a few clicks:

a.) using the Apps Installer group and scroll the list until you find the application you want to install

b.) access the Softaculous Apps Installer menu in cPanel and load the Softaculous interface

In this tutorial, we will guide you to access the Softaculous Apps Installer interface in cPanel.

1.) First of all, go ahead and login to your Client Area:

2.) Once connected to your Client Area, please launch the cPanel interface:

3.) Once logged into cPanel, please locate and click the “Softaculous Apps Installer”:

4.) Now the Softaculous interface will be loaded and you will be able to install hundreds of scripts with just a few clicks. On the left side of your browser, you will see a menu of script’s categories and a search field – where you can search for the script you want to install:

5.) In the top-right of your browser, you will find another menu with a number of icons. Below is an explanation for each button:

a.) Go to cPanel – this will redirect you back to cPanel

b.) Script Demos – here you will see demo installations for all of the scripts listed in Softaculous

c.) Script Rating – the rating each script received from the community

d.) All Installations – list with all your account installations

e.) Task List – when you install, delete, update applications here you will see the progress of tasks in real-time.

f.) Edit Settings – basic settings for Softaculous interface

g.) Backups and Restore – manage script backups

h.) Email Settings – here you can set your e-mail account to receive notifications from Softaculous

i.) Synchronize with other Auto-Installers – In case you have some applications installed with a different auto-installer, here you will be able to sync Softaculous with that auto-installer

j.) Help and Support – Softaculous FAQ

k.) Logout – disconnect from Softaculous