Yet another sleek simple fast CMS with an effortless template and plugin environment

Install

1. Navigate to your project folder

Open terminal and navigate to your project folder:

cd path/to/your/ivy/project

2. Download ivy files

Use Composer to create a new project with ivy:

composer create-project joepdooper/ivy .

3. Set up the database

Create a database for ivy and import the provided ivy.sql file:

mysql -u your_database_username -p your_database_name < ivy.sql

Rename the example.env file to .env and update it with your database credentials.

4. Set the document root

Make sure your web server points to the public/ folder inside this project.

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName localhost
    DocumentRoot /var/www/public
    DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm

    <Directory /var/www/public>
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
    </Directory>

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

Login

Accessing the backend

To access the "backend" for the first time, after the installation, follow these steps:

1. Navigate to yourserver.com/admin/login (user icon)
2. Use the credentials admin@localhost.test and 00000
3. Upon successful login, you will be directed to the profile page with super_admin rights

Changing email and password

Open the .env file and update it with your mailbox credentials. If you've modified the .env file, follow these steps:

1. Upon login, on the profile page, modify and submit your email address to initiate the email change process
2. After successfully changing your email address, go to yourserver.com/admin/logout to log out (logout icon)
3. Finally, navigate to yourserver.com/admin/reset to initiate the password reset process

Documentation

Documentation coming up