What is Capima?

Capima is a modern web server stack designed to help you manage your PHP web application and websites easier and faster. Our stack is production-ready stack which currently in used for many customers around the globe.

Installing, configuring and optimizing your web server has never been so easy.

Getting Started

Requirements

Before you can use Capima, please make sure your server fulfils these requirements.

Software requirement

• Ubuntu 16.04/18.04/20.04/22.04 x86_64 LTS (Fresh installation)
• If the server is virtual (VPS), OpenVZ may not be supported (Kernel 2.6)

Hardware requirement

• More than 5GB HDD
• At least 2 core processor
• 2048MB minimum RAM

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What's installed with Capima?

• nginX (frontend - port 80)
• Apache 2 (backend - port 81)
• PHP-FPM
  • 5.5 (only available in 16.04)
  • 5.6 (only available in 16.04)
  • 7.0 (only available in 18.04)
  • 7.1 (only available in 18.04)
  • 7.2 (only available in 20.04)
  • 7.3 (only available in 20.04)
  • 7.4
  • 8.0
  • 8.1
  • 8.2
  • 8.3
• MariaDB 10.4
  • 10.6 (available in 22.04)
  • Performance optimised for general purposes.
• Node.js LTS (18.x)
• Python
  • Python 3 if Ubuntu 20.04 and above.
• Redis (can be enabled later by CLI)
• ElasticSearch (can be enabled later by CLI)
  • 5.x if Ubuntu 16.04
  • 6.x if Ubuntu 18.04
  • 7.x if Ubuntu 20.04
• MailHog (can be enabled later by CLI)
• Postfix
• Memcached (disabled by default)
• Beanstalk (disabled by default)
• Firewalld
  • Port 22, 80, 443 accessible by default.
  • ufw, iptables will be disabled/removed.
• Fail2ban

Installation

Run the following command with sudo or root user.

export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive; echo 'Acquire::ForceIPv4 "true";' | sudo tee /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99force-ipv4; sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install curl netcat-openbsd ca-certificates wget -y; curl -4 --silent --location https://capima.nntoan.com/files/installers/install.sh | sudo bash -; export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=newt

Usage

After installed, you are able to manage your webservers by the following command.

$ sudo capima

CAPIMA v0.0.0

Usage:
 capima [commands] [options]

Options:
 --version(-v)    Display current version.
 --help(-h)       Display this help message.
 --quiet(-q)      Do not output any message.
 --ansi           Force ANSI output.
 --no-ansi        Disable ANSI output.

Available commands:
 web              Webapps management panel (add/update/delete).
 db               Databases management panel (add/update/delete).
 use              Switch between version of PHP-CLI.
 enable           Enable optional services (elasticsearch, redis, mailhog).
 restart          Restart Capima services.
 info             Show webapps information (under development).
 logs             Tail the last 200 lines of logfile (apache,fpm,nginx).
 self-update      Check latest version and performing self-update.

Please note that you will need to switch to capima user in order to work with your webapps.

$ sudo su - capima

capima user can use sudo capima without being prompted password. That command is the only sudo command capima user can use. We DO NOT recommend to give capima full sudo privileges. Webserver user should never given sudo privileges as per security best practices.

List of commands

Quick guide of commands available in Capima for configuration and adjustment of this application.

WEB

Manage your websites, create, delete, disable your sites, enable SSL for any of your sites.

$ sudo capima web add

You will enter the interactive mode like the following screenshots:

$ sudo capima web delete

Enter the app name you would like to delete:

DB

Manage your databases.

$ sudo capima db add

Adding new database

$ sudo capima db delete

Delete a database

USE

Switch your PHP-CLI version quickly.

$ sudo capima use x.x

Replace x.x with your targeted PHP version (e.g 7.1):

License

Capima is released under the MIT License.