Build a Full‑Featured Java CMS with FlyCms: Step‑by‑Step Setup Guide

FlyCms is an open‑source, Java‑based social Q&A CMS inspired by Zhihu, built with a Spring Boot backend and a Vue frontend.

Technology stack: Spring Boot 2.2.0.RELEASE, Bootstrap 4.5.0, MyBatis, MySQL, Redis‑x64‑3.2.100, Elasticsearch, Vue 2.6.10, Element‑UI 2.14.0.

The project focuses on organizing, categorizing and searching community content, enabling users to quickly create professional knowledge bases and online Q&A communities.

Key features include user, department, role, menu, dictionary, parameter, notification, operation log, login log, online users, scheduled tasks, code generation, system interfaces, service monitoring, online builder, connection pool monitoring, group management, tag management, site management, and user follow.

Installation requires a CentOS environment and the following components:

MySQL

JDK

Elasticsearch

Redis

Nginx

wget https://dev.mysql.com/get/mysql57-community-release-el7-9.noarch.rpm

rpm -ivh mysql57-community-release-el7-9.noarch.rpm

yum -y install mysql-server

systemctl start mysqld

wget --no-check-certificate --no-cookies --header "Cookie: oraclelicense=accept-securebackup-cookie" http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/9.0.4+11/c2514751926b4512b076cc82f959763f/jdk-9.0.4_linux-x64_bin.tar.gz

https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-6.5.3.tar.gz

groupadd elsearch
useradd elsearch -g elsearch -p elsearch

chown elsearch:elsearch -R /home/elasticsearch/

su elsearch cd /home/elasticsearch/ nohup ./bin/elasticsearch > /dev/null 2> /dev/null &

http://download.redis.io/releases/redis-4.0.2.tar.gz

https://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.19.4.tar.gz

After installing the dependencies, edit resource/application-prod.yml to set the database URL, name, username and password.

Build the project with Maven: select the prod profile, open flycms/Lifecycle and click install to generate the flycms.jar file in the target directory.

If you are learning Spring Boot, a free, long‑running tutorial is available at http://blog.didispace.com/spring-boot-learning-2x/.

Start the application; the default backend login is username admin and password 123456.

Beyond the core CMS, FlyCms offers column recommendations based on user interests, hot‑topic discovery, and an achievement system for users.