Successful install steps on RHEL/CentOS 7

The instructions on GitHub for a RHEL install from GitHub sources were pretty good, but didn't work well for me on RHEL/CentOS6, so I decided to try to use a new CentOS 7 install which I have experience administering over a Bitnami install which is a very fast way to get up and running, but makes maintenance difficult for me because it doesn't fit with my other Linux servers. I talked briefly to DreamFactory tech support who had some good suggestions for me and helped me get it working on CentOS 7. Maybe this will help others do the same. I did a minimal CentOS 7 install and then did the following which worked just fine: yum update yum install epel-release yum install curl httpd php php-common php-cli php-curl php-json php-mcrypt php-gd php-pear php-mysql mariadb-server git systemctl enable mariadb systemctl start mariadb mysql_secure_installation (to set the root password) mysql - u root -p MariaDB [(none)]> create database dreamfactory; MariaDB [(none)]> grant all privileges on dreamfactory.* to 'dsp_user'@'localhost' identified by 'dsp_user'; MariaDB [(none)]> flush privileges; MariaDB [(none)]> quit setenforce 0 firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=http firewall-cmd --reload systemctl enable httpd mkdir -p /opt/dreamfactory/platform chmod 777 /opt/dreamfactory/platform git clone https://github.com/dreamfactorysoftware/dsp-core.git /opt/dreamfactory/platform cd /opt/dreamfactory/platform then edit /opt/dreamfactory/platform/scripts/installer.sh to change "WEB_USER=www-data" to "WEB_USER=apache" and run the script: ./scripts/installer.sh -cv chown -R root:apache * .git* .dreamfactory* chown -R :apache /opt/dreamfactory/platform/vendor/ ./composer.lock then edit httpd.conf: vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and change the following: DocumentRoot "/opt/dreamfactory/platform/web" Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews AllowOverride All Require all granted RewriteEngine on RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^.*$ /index.php [L] Allow from all then edit /etc/php.ini to set the time zone manually (otherwise DreamFactory will bomb with a php error message that isn't its fault) date.timezone= America/New_York and start httpd systemctl start httpd Then go to http://a.b.c.d/ and you should see your DreamFactory asking you to make an admin account. Now to learn how Dreamfactory works....