Open cart is one of the best online store building systems (E-commerce CMS) available as open-source and free. Using an Onlineshop, you can create your own store, add products to sell products through global online payment gateways, review products, and carefully study users’ sales and behavior. Then check it with the help of data and increase your sales by examining and optimizing your strengths and weaknesses.
About CentOS 7
This post will teach you how to install OpenCart on centos 7; All previously released versions of CentOS are based on the RHEL and binary versions of the Red Hat product; All programs available for the business system, without restrictions and additional compilers, also work. In early 2014, Red Hat staff and developers of the (still independent) CentOS project formed a so-called “board.” Since then, the team has been primarily responsible for further development and distribution support from various workgroups (system core, support, design, etc.).
Stay with us to Install OpenCart on CentOS 7
Why CentOS 7?
CentOS Linux is a community-supported distribution derived from sources freely provided to the public by Red Hat for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). As such, CentOS Linux aims to be functionally compatible with RHEL. The CentOS Project mainly changes packages to remove upstream vendor branding and artwork. CentOS Linux is no-cost and free to redistribute. Each CentOS version is maintained for up to 10 years (through security updates — the duration of the support interval by Red Hat has varied over time for Sources released). A new CentOS version is released approximately every 2 years, and each CentOS version is periodically updated (roughly every 6 months) to support more recent hardware. This results in a secure, low-maintenance, reliable, predictable, and reproducible Linux environment; So for more efficiency in centos 7 and its easy to use, now we will use it to install OpenCard.
Install Putty
You must use putty software to connect and log in to the server. Putty software is client-side software. This means that a server must exist at the network level for the software to connect to it. Our server is the same SSH service currently running on our server, and if the server is down or the SSH service is not running properly, we will not be able to connect to the server via the SSH protocol.
What Is A LAMP SERVER?
LAMP stands for Linux Apache MySQL PHP. If you are a PHP developer, you are probably familiar with all these things. But a very brief explanation of each of these cases is provided.
Apache: One of the most popular web servers in Linux. Other web servers include Nginx and Lighttpd.
MySQL: A database management system through which we can make our web pages dynamic and interactive using the ability to store and retrieve data.
PHP: A server-side programming language with which we can write server-based web pages and Web APIs.
Requirements ( LAMP )
The first step to installation opencart is to install a lamp on CentOs 7
After that; Here you must have the following items on your CentOS 7 tradition :
- Web server (recommended to use Apache webserver)
2. PHP 7.2
3. Database (suggested database is MYSQLi )
The required PHP libraries and modules are:
- Curl
- Zlib
- GD
- Library
- Mcrypt
- Mbstrings
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Install Lamp Important Commands
Note: You will install these commands after the installation of the lamp will be finished.
Now; You should also make sure that user permissions are set up correctly and do not have any problem:
Step 1) Make Sure Your Firewalld / Iptables Do Not Block Any Ports
To disable SELinux, type the following command:
setenforce 0
Let’s update CentOS 7 tradition; This will help you keep your server up to date.
To do this, run the following commands one after the other according to the photos and wait for the update; this operation will take some time.
sudo yum clean all sudo yum -y update
You will have installed firewalls on your server, and you’ll need to open up port 80 to allow Apache to serve requests over HTTP. If you haven’t already done so, you can do this by enabling the firewall’s HTTP service with the following command line :
sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=http sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=https sudo firewall-cmd --reload
Step 2) Securing The MariaDB Server
sudo mysql_secure_installation
Here You should press Enter button to set the password for MySQL.
Your mind encounters the following items: will ask you for a new password, press Y, and then enter the password.
Note: do not forget your password because we need that password after installing an opencard
You will now have several Y / N options like the below photo, which you must answer carefully.
Type Y for Remove unknown users and then confirm it
similar to the last photo, we have to type Y for accepting disallow login remotely
we have to type Y to remove test database and access it then verifies it like last times
And the last question is Reload privilege tables now? we will type Y again
Now, after confirming all of them, we finished the installation of MariaDB. In the below photo, we can see that.
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step 3) Install Yum-Utils Packages
You can install that by using the command below:
$ sudo yum install yum-utils
We have to confirm the installation by typing Y and enter it:
Now the structure of utils packages have been completed
Step 4) Modify The Config File Of PhpMyAdmin
We can use this command :
sudo nano /etc/httpd/conf.d/phpMyAdmin.conf
Since we are assessing our server remotely (via ssh), we need to modify some lines to specify your home connection’s IP address.
The first location is the <Directory /usr/share/phpMyAdmin/> section as shown below:
Change any lines that read Require IP 127.0.0.1 or Allow from 127.0.0.1.
Note: We can change the config files with 3 ways that will say you at this section :
- First, you can change your home connection’s IP address. (Recommended, Security reason)
- For the second one, you can change your VPN IP address.
- The third way is that you need to replace some files so that all users can access your PHPMyAdmin.
I preferred to use the first way to have a secure connection to PHPMYADMIN:
Here we need to save the changes to confirm them and enable PHPMyAdmin;
Press Ctrl+x and then press Y:
Now Press enter to confirm it:
After making the configurations;
Restart the Apache webserver by typing the below command :
sudo systemctl restart httpd.service
Visit your public IP address or server’s domain name followed by /phpMyAdmin, in your web browser;
http://IP/phpMyAdmin
like at the following photo:
Step 5) Install Mcrypt
What is Mcrypt?
The Mcrypt format is an alternative to the Unix encryption command; These commands are used to encrypt files on Linux and Unix systems; The Mcrypt PHP format acts as an interface between PHP and Mcrypt.
Here the way we can install Mcrypt ;
yum install php-mcrypt
After that, restart Apache to apply the changes,
Use bellow command :
systemctl restart httpd
Already command confirmed:
You can also check to be sure that Mcrypt has been installed;
by using this command :
PHP -m | grep -i Mcrypt
Like on the bellow photo:
Install OpenCart 3.0.2.0
step 1) Move to cd /var/www/HTML/
cd /var/www/html/
Like in the below pictures:
Step 2) we have to create a new folder is Opencart
Use the below command:
mkdir opencart
Step 3) Now Move To Opencart Directory
cd opencart/
Like in the bellow photo; press enter to create an opencart directory (folder)
Step 4) Move into the opencart directory to start downloading opencart
Use the below command to download opencart 3.0.2.0 :
wget https://github.com/opencart/opencart/releases/download/3.0.2.0/3.0.2.0-OpenCart.zip
Following the below photo:
Here we can see the download of opencart 3.0.2.0 has been finished :
Step 5) Now You can see the list of the opencard folder.
Use the below command:
ll
Like in the following picture:
In the next step, we have to extract the file and set the permissions;
Note: You have to install UNZIP before extracting any files
Use the following command for it :
I already installed unzip:
We are ready to unzip the installation file of opencart 3.0.2.0
According to the below photo; You can unzip the file.
Use the following command:
unzip 3.0.2.0-OpenCart.zipUse the command line at the following photo; press enter button to confirm unzip section:
Here you can see; We unzipped the file successfully:
Use the long list command below side, Which allows you can see the list of the opencard folder unzipped files:
ll
Like in the following picture:
Step 6) Remove The File Which Was Downloaded The Last Time
You can use this command:
rm -fr 3.0.2.0-OpenCart.zip
like in the next photo:
Step 7) Move OpenCart/upload
Use the below command:
Cd upload/
like at the following photo:
Step 8) Rename The File Config-dist.php To Config.php;
Use the following command:
mv config-dist.php config.php
According to the following photo:
Step 9) Moved To Admin And Rename The File Config-dist.php To Config.php
Use the below command:
cd admin/
According to the below photo:
Step 10) Rename The File Config-dist.php to Config.php;
Use the following command:
mv config-dist.php config.php
According to the following photo:
Step 11) Go Back To The HTML Folder To Set Ownership And Permission For Apache
Use the below command:
chown -R apache:apache opencart/
Like in the below photo:
Step 12) Set Ownership And Permission For Apache
Use the below command:
chown -R 775 opencart/
Like in the below photo:
Step 13) We Need To Restart The Apache And MariaDB Services;
Use the below commands to do that:
systemctl restart httpd systemctl restart mariadb
Like at the following photo:
You have to stop the firewalld services;
Use the below command:
systemctl stop firewalld
Like in the below photo:
Graphical Section Of Installing Online Shop
Now, Type the following in your web browser :
http://Ip-server/opencart/upload
Here you can see we are into the graphical section of installation opencart:
Click on the continue button to start the installation;
At this stage, the installer checks whether the Web server meets all the technical requirements or not; It will also check for the required permissions.
All have to set on a green mark and writable:
Now click on continue to start the third section of the installation;
Define the Database connection details along with the user name and password for admin access on opencart.
like in the following photo:
click on continue,
Now we can see the installation has been finished; According to the below image:
Security note: You have to delete the installation files on the server.
Go to opencart directory, delete the install folder using rm command as below command:
rm -rf install
You can see in the following photo:
At last; Login to OpenCart Admin Panel:
You can log in it by using below:
Open the Web Browser type: http://Ip address/opencart/admin/
You can see in the below photo:
After entering the credentials, OpenCart Admin Dashboard will open as shown below :
The installation has been completed; You can now start your online shop work.
We already installed our online shop; Note again this, it’s so necessary to keep your opencart safe from the attackers, and don’t forget it we should need to remove installation files of opencart on the server, also if you need any help with installation opencart or need to fix existing errors or if this post was helpful to you; You can use the bellow of comment side to share your Opinion and problems also, for us; Then we can guide you at any time of the day to fix your problems of this tutorial, I’ll hope you enjoyed this post.
