In this tutorial we will show you how to install OpenCart on your CentOS 7 server. For those of you who didn’t know, For those of you who didn’t know, OpenCart is a free open source ecommerce platform for online merchants. OpenCart provides a professional and reliable foundation from which to build a successful online store.
This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root accge of Linount, if not you may need to add ‘sudo’ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you through the step by step installation OpenCart on a CentOS 7 server.
Install OpenCart on CentOS 7
Step 1. First let’s start by ensuring your system is up-to-date.
1 2 | yumcleanall yum-yupdate |
Step 2. Install LAMP server.
A CentOS 7 LAMP stack server is required. If you do not have LAMP installed, you can follow our guide here. Also install required PHP modules:
1 | yum-yinstallphp-gdphp-imapphp-ldapphp-odbcphp-pearphp-xmlphp-xmlrpcphp-mbstringphp-mcryptphp-mssqlphp-snmpphp-soapphp-tidycurlcurl-devel |
Run the below command to update selinux:
1 2 3 | setenforce0 sed-i's/enforcing/disabled/'/etc/sysconfig/selinux sed-i's/enforcing/disabled/'/etc/selinux/config |
First thing to do is to go to OpenCart’s download page and download the latest stable version of OpenCart, At the moment of writing this article it is version 3.0.2.0:
1 2 3 | wgethttps://github.com/opencart/opencart/archive/3.0.2.0.zip unzip3.0.2.0.zip mvopencart-3.0.2.0/upload/*/var/www/html/ |
Rename the file ‘config-dist.php’ to ‘config.php’:
1 | mvconfig-dist.phpconfig.php |
We will need to change some folders permissions:
1 2 | chown-Rwww-data.www-data/var/www/html chmod-R755/var/www/html |
By default, MariaDB is not hardened. You can secure MariaDB using the mysql_secure_installation script. You should read and below each steps carefully which will set root password, remove anonymous users, disallow remote root login, and remove the test database and access to secure MariaDB.
1 | mysql_secure_installation |
Configure it like this:
1 2 3 4 5 | -Setrootpassword?[Y/n]y -Removeanonymoususers?[Y/n]y -Disallowrootloginremotely?[Y/n]y -Removetestdatabaseandaccesstoit?[Y/n]y -Reloadprivilegetablesnow?[Y/n]y |
Next we will need to log in to the MariaDB console and create a database for the OpenCart. Run the following command:
1 | mysql-uroot-p |
This will prompt you for a password, so enter your MariaDB root password and hit Enter. Once you are logged in to your database server you need to create a database for OpenCart installation:
1 2 3 4 | MariaDB[(none)]>CREATEDATABASEopencart; MariaDB[(none)]>GRANTALLPRIVILEGESONopencart.*TO'opencartuser'@'localhost'IDENTIFIEDBY'opencartuser_passwd'; MariaDB[(none)]>FLUSHPRIVILEGES; MariaDB[(none)]>\q |
OpenCart will be available on HTTP port 80 by default. Open your favorite browser and navigate to http://yourdomain.com/ or http://server-ip and complete the required the steps to finish the installation. If you are using a firewall, please open port 80 to enable access to the control panel.
Congratulation’s! You have successfully installed OpenCart. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing OpenCart e-commerce on CentOS 7 systems. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you to check the official OpenCart web site.
