Wowonder – Ultimate PHP Social Network Platform

# Ubuntu / Debian
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

# CentOS / Rocky
sudo dnf update -y

# Ubuntu/Debian
sudo apt install -y nginx apache2 php8.2 php8.2-fpm php8.2-mysql \
    php8.2-xml php8.2-mbstring php8.2-curl php8.2-zip unzip git

# CentOS/Rocky
sudo dnf install -y epel-release
sudo dnf install -y nginx httpd php php-fpm php-mysqlnd php-xml php-mbstring \
    php-curl php-zip unzip git

sudo adduser --system --no-create-home --group wowonder
sudo chown -R wowonder:wowonder /var/www/html/wowonder

mysql -u root -p

CREATE DATABASE wowonder CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;
CREATE USER 'wow_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'StrongP@ssw0rd!';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wowonder.* TO 'wow_user'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;

scp -r ./Wowonder.tar.gz [email protected]:/var/www/html/

cd /var/www/html/
tar -xzvf Wowonder.tar.gz
mv wowonder/* .
rm -rf wowonder Wowonder.tar.gz

# Directories need write access for uploads, cache, logs
find . -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \;

# Files should be readable but not executable
find . -type f -exec chmod 664 {} \;

# Critical config files (e.g., .env) keep tighter permissions
chmod 640 .env

sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/wowonder.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName social.example.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html

    <Directory /var/www/html>
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
    </Directory>

    # Log files for SEO analysis
    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/wowonder_error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/wowonder_access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

sudo a2ensite wowonder.conf
sudo a2enmod rewrite
sudo systemctl restart apache2

sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/wowonder

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name social.example.com;
    root /var/www/html;
    index index.php;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
        include fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php8.2-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
    }

    # Security headers for SEO & UX
    add_header X-Content-Type-Options nosniff;
    add_header X-Frame-Options SAMEORIGIN;
}

sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/wowonder /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
sudo nginx -t && sudo systemctl reload nginx

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Person",
  "name": "{{user.full_name}}",
  "url": "https://social.example.com/{{user.username}}",
  "image": "https://social.example.com/{{user.avatar}}",
  "sameAs": [
    "{{user.facebook}}",
    "{{user.twitter}}"
  ]
}
</script>