In this tutorial we will show you how to install and configuration of Quick.Cart on your CentOS 7 server. For those of you who didn’t know, Quick.Cart is a free and open source shopping cart script written in PHP. Quick.Cart is very simple, but yet powerful shopping card and it can be installed and run on almost all Linux distributions. It does not require an SQL database and it can be installed in less than 10 minutes.
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 account, 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 Quick.Cart shopping cart on a CentOS 7 server.
Install Quick.Cart 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 | yuminstallphp-mysqlphp-gdphp-ldapphp-xmlphp-xmlrpcphp-mbstringphp-mcryptcurlzliblibtool-ltdlphp-pdo |
Step 3. Installing Quick.Cart.
First thing to do is to go to Quick.Cart’s download page and download the latest stable version of Quick.Cart, At the moment of writing this article it is version 6.7:
1 | wgethttp://opensolution.org/download/home.html?sFile=Quick.Cart_v6.7.zip |
Unpack the Quick.Cart archive to the document root directory on your server:
1 2 | mkdir/var/www/html/quickcart unziphome.html\?sFile\=Quick.Cart_v6.7.zip-d/var/www/html/quickcart |
We will need to change some folders permissions:
1 | chownapache:apache-R/var/www/html/quickcart/ |
Step 4. Configuring Apache web server for Quick.Cart.
We will create Apache virtual host for your Quick.Cart website. First create ‘/etc/httpd/conf.d/vhosts.conf’ file with using a text editor of your choice:
1 2 | nano/etc/httpd/conf.d/vhosts.conf IncludeOptionalvhosts.d/*.conf |
Next, create the virtual host:
1 2 | mkdir/etc/httpd/vhosts.d/ nano/etc/httpd/vhosts.d/yourdomain.com.conf |
Add the following lines:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 | <VirtualHostYOUR_SERVER_IP:80> ServerAdminwebmaster@yourdomain.com DocumentRoot"/var/www/html/quickcart/" ServerNameyourdomain.com ServerAliaswww.yourdomain.com ErrorLog"/var/log/httpd/yourdomain.com-error_log" CustomLog"/var/log/httpd/yourdomain.com-access_log"combined <Directory"/var/www/html/quickcart/"> DirectoryIndexindex.htmlindex.php OptionsFollowSymLinks AllowOverrideAll Requireallgranted </Directory> </VirtualHost> |
Save and close the file. Restart the apache service for the changes to take effects:
1 | systemctlrestarthttpd.service |
Step 5. Accessing Quick.Cart.
Quick.Cart 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. To access the administrator panel, add ‘admin.php’ (http//yourdomain.com/admin.php) at the end of the URL. If you are using a firewall, please open port 80 to enable access to the control panel.
Congratulation’s! You have successfully installed Quick.Cart. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing Quick.Cart shopping cart on CentOS 7 system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you to check the official Quick.Cart web site.
