How to install OpenCart on CentOS 7.6

Installation of openCart On Centos 7.6

Opencart is free and open source e-commerce platform for online shopping application and it provides a professional and reliable foundation from which we can build a successful online store. This foundation to use, to shop a variety of users and ranging from seasoned web developers looking for a user-friendly interface for using the shop owners will just launch their online business.This tutorial covers the installation of opencart on centos 7.6

Requirements for Open cart:

Apache

Mariadb

Php and it's modules

php php-xml php-mysql php-mbstring php-zip php-soap php-curl php-gd php-ldap php-imap php-common php-mcrypt

Installation procedure

Check the Centos version by using the following command

[root@linuxhelp ~]# rpm -q centos-release
centos-release-7-6.1810.2.el7.centos.x86_64
Configure the MySQL database. Log into MySQL as a root user and make the necessary settings.
 [root@linuxhelp ~]# mysql -u root -p
Enter password: 
Welcome to the MariaDB monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MariaDB connection id is 10
Server version: 5.5.60-MariaDB MariaDB Server

Copyright (c) 2000, 2018, Oracle, MariaDB Corporation Ab and others.

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.

MariaDB [(none)]> create database opencart;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

MariaDB [(none)]> create user 'openuser'@localhost identified by 'Linuxc#4';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.06 sec)

MariaDB [(none)]> grant all privileges on opencart.* to 'openuser'@localhost;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)

MariaDB [(none)]> flush privileges;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

MariaDB [(none)]> Ctrl-C -- exit!
Aborted

Once the database configuration is done, download the installation package of Open cart by using the wget command.

[root@linuxhelp ~]# wget https://github.com/opencart/opencart/archive/master.zip
--2019-06-01 15:34:56--  https://github.com/opencart/opencart/archive/master.zip
Resolving github.com (github.com)... 13.234.210.38
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|13.234.210.38|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: https://codeload.github.com/opencart/opencart/zip/master [following]
--2019-06-01 15:34:56--  https://codeload.github.com/opencart/opencart/zip/master
Resolving codeload.github.com (codeload.github.com)... 192.30.253.121
Connecting to codeload.github.com (codeload.github.com)|192.30.253.121|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [application/zip]
Saving to: ‘master.zip’

   [    <=>                                                    ] 20,733,008   968KB/s   in 24s    

2019-06-01 15:35:21 (846 KB/s) - ‘master.zip’ saved [20733008]

[root@linuxhelp ~]# unzip master.zip
Archive:  master.zip
08b6c68ea03b3864c663aebf5acbe3af947ca094
  creating: opencart-master/
  creating: opencart-master/.github/
  creating: opencart-master/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/
 inflating: opencart-master/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_report.md  
 inflating: opencart-master/CHANGELOG.md  
 inflating: opencart-master/CHANGELOG_AUTO.md  
 inflating: opencart-master/README.md  
 inflating: opencart-master/build.xml
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 inflating: opencart-master/upload/system/storage/vendor/zoujingli/wechat-php-sdk/Wechat/WechatScript.php  
 inflating: opencart-master/upload/system/storage/vendor/zoujingli/wechat-php-sdk/Wechat/WechatService.php  
 inflating: opencart-master/upload/system/storage/vendor/zoujingli/wechat-php-sdk/Wechat/WechatUser.php  
 inflating: opencart-master/upload/system/storage/vendor/zoujingli/wechat-php-sdk/composer.json  
 inflating: opencart-master/upload/system/storage/vendor/zoujingli/wechat-php-sdk/include.php  
 inflating: opencart-master/upload/system/storage/vendor/zoujingli/wechat-php-sdk/test.php  

 [root@linuxhelp ~]# mv opencart-master /var/www/opencart

 [root@linuxhelp ~]# chown -R apache:apache /var/www/opencart
 [root@linuxhelp ~]# chmod -R 755 /var/www/opencart

 [root@linuxhelp ~]# vim /etc/httpd/conf.d/opencart.conf
 <Virtualhost *:80>
        servername www.linuxhelp1.com
        documentroot /var/www/opencart/upload
<directory /var/www/opencart/upload>
allowoverride all
allow from all
</directory>
</virtualhost>

[root@linuxhelp ~]# systemctl restart httpd

 [root@linuxhelp ~]# cd /var/www/opencart/upload
[root@linuxhelp upload]# ls
admin  catalog  config-dist.php  image  index.php  install  php.ini  system
[root@linuxhelp upload]# mv config-dist.php config.php

 [root@linuxhelp upload]# cd admin

 [root@linuxhelp admin]# ls
config-dist.php  controller  index.php  language  model  view
 [root@linuxhelp admin]# mv config-dist.php config.php

 [root@linuxhelp admin]# systemctl restart httpd