How to install Opencart on Ubuntu 18.04
To install Opencart on Ubuntu 18.04
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.
Prerequisites
To install LAMP(Apache, MariaDB, php7)
In MariaDB (create database and user and give privileges to that user )
Php installation with required following modules
add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
apt-get update
apt-get install php7.0 php7.0-mysql php7.0-curl php7.0-json php7.0-cgi libapache2-mod-php7.0 php7.0-mcrypt php7.0-xmlrpc php7.0-gd php7.0-mbstring php7.0 php7.0-common php7.0-xmlrpc php7.0-soap php7.0-xml php7.0-intl
php7.0-cli php7.0-ldap php7.0-zip php7.0-readline php7.0-imap php7.0-tidy php7.0-recode php7.0-sq php7.0-intl
Download an Opencart package from the terminal using wget command
root@linuxhelp1:~# wget https://github.com/opencart/opencart/releases/download/3.0.2.0/3.0.2.0-OpenCart.zip
--2018-06-12 01:14:40-- https://github.com/opencart/opencart/releases/download/3.0.2.0/3.0.2.0-OpenCart.zip
Resolving github.com (github.com)... 192.30.253.113, 192.30.253.112
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|192.30.253.113|:443... connected.
.
.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 16544198 (16M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘ 3.0.2.0-OpenCart.zip’
3.0.2.0-OpenCart.zip 100%[==============================> ] 15.78M 736KB/s in 50s
2018-06-12 01:15:33 (325 KB/s) - ‘ 3.0.2.0-OpenCart.zip’ saved [16544198/16544198]
The download package is a zip file, so unzip the package as follows
root@linuxhelp1:~# unzip 3.0.2.0-OpenCart.zip -d opencart
Archive: 3.0.2.0-OpenCart.zip
inflating: opencart/build.xml
inflating: opencart/CHANGELOG.md
inflating: opencart/CHANGELOG_AUTO.md
inflating: opencart/composer.json
inflating: opencart/composer.lock
.
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inflating: opencart/upload/system/storage/vendor/zoujingli/wechat-php-sdk/Wechat/WechatReceive.php
inflating: opencart/upload/system/storage/vendor/zoujingli/wechat-php-sdk/Wechat/WechatScript.php
inflating: opencart/upload/system/storage/vendor/zoujingli/wechat-php-sdk/Wechat/WechatService.php
inflating: opencart/upload/system/storage/vendor/zoujingli/wechat-php-sdk/Wechat/WechatUser.php
Move the extracted file into the HTML location
root@linuxhelp1:~# mv opencart /var/www/
switch to the following directory
root@linuxhelp1:~# cd /var/www/
Change the ownership and permission of the file as follows
root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# chown -R www-data.www-data opencart
root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# chmod -R 775 opencart
Create a new virtual host configuration for accessing the Opencart
root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/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>
Enable the site access
root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# a2ensite opencart.conf
Enabling site opencart.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
systemctl reload apache2
Disable the default site access
root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# a2dissite 000-default.conf
Site 000-default disabled.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
systemctl reload apache2
Enable the rewrite module
root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# a2enmod rewrite
Enabling module rewrite.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
systemctl restart apache2
Restart the apache2 service
root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# systemctl restart apache2
Now you can proceed the further installation and configuration from the browser by navigating to the following URL of http://local IP (or) domain name
Accept the License agreement to use the Opencart
Check out the preinstallation requirements
Now make changes as follows
root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# cd opencart/upload/
Rename the filename
root@linuxhelp1:/var/www/opencart/upload# mv config-dist.php config.php
Switch into the following directory
root@linuxhelp1:/var/www/opencart/upload# cd admin/
Rename the filename
root@linuxhelp1:/var/www/opencart/upload/admin# mv config-dist.php config.php
Restart the apache2 service
root@linuxhelp1:/var/www/opencart/upload/admin# systemctl restart apache2
After making the changes, you can proceed with the installation
Configure the database detail and Admin account setup
Now the installation setup is complete and to access opencart admin panel click on login as Admin
Now login with Admin user credential
After successful login, you will see admin dashboard of Opencart
You can choose the Admin user profile and click on your store option, and it will redirect to your site of Opencart store
with this, the method to install Opencart on Ubuntu 18.04 comes to an end.
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