Enhance Business With Free Shopping Cart Solution

System Requirements

OpenCart is PHP and MySQL based open source shopping cart software. Current requirements for OpenCart include:

• PHP 5.4+
• MySQL 5.0 +
• Web Server (Apache / Nginx)

Features

OpenCart provides all the modern features that you can imagine in top-notch open source shopping cart software. Additionally, It has a wide range of modules and themes that can be used to extend the functionality of your shop. Also, you can develop your own modules and themes or even buy from the marketplace. Further, There are wide range of open source themes are also available. In conclusion, OpenCart is one of the popular open source shopping cart software that supports integration with top merchant services and delivery services. We have listed some of the key features below

• Open Source
• User Management
• Multi-Store
• Options and attributes
• Affiliates
• Discounts, coupons and specials
• Back-up and restore
• Product Reviews and Ratings
• Reward Points
• Multi-currency
• Multi-lingual
• Payment Gateways
• Recurring payments
• Sales reports
• Extensions
• SEO
• Responsive

Installation

Install OpenCart on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with Nginx

Nginx is the most popular and secure web server. In order to install Nginx, use the following command

 sudo apt install nginx 

Once the Nginx is install, configure the domain and restart the Nginx by using the following command

 sudo service nginx restart 

Next, need to install database Server, use the following command to install MySql server

 sudo apt-get update;  sudo apt-get install mysql-server; mysql_secure_installation 

Once, the database server is installed, use the following command to restart MySql server

 sudo service mysql restart 

Install PHP for processing

 sudo apt-get install php-fpm php-mysql

Now, you have installed all the required software and the next step is to login to mysql server and create phplist database. Use following command to create database. Change with your database name.

 CREATE DATABASE  

Create a database user called "" with new password. and granted user full access to the database by running the following commands. Change with your desired database user and with your desired password.

 CREATE USER ''@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY ''; 
 GRANT ALL ON .* TO ''@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '' WITH GRANT OPTION;
 FLUSH PRIVILEGES; EXIT;

Run the commands below to download and extract the downloaded file and move it into a OpenCart root directory.

cd /tmp && wget https://github.com/opencart/opencart/releases/download/3.0.3.6/3.0.3.6-OpenCart.zip
unzip 3.0.3.6-OpenCart.zip
sudo mv upload/ /var/www/html/opencart

Configure OpenCart by using below commands.

sudo cp /var/www/html/opencart/config-dist.php /var/www/html/opencart/config.php
sudo cp /var/www/html/opencart/admin/config-dist.php /var/www/html/opencart/admin/config.php

Set correct permissions for OpenCart.

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/opencart/
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/opencart/

Create Nginx configuration file for OpenCart.

sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/opencart

Copy and paste the content below into the file and save it. Replace example.com with your own domain.

server {
    listen 80;
    listen [::]:80;
    root /var/www/html/opencart;
    index  index.php index.html index.htm;
    server_name  example.com;

    location / {
    try_files $uri $uri/ =404;        
    }

    location ~ [^/]\.php(/|$) {
        include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.1-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        include fastcgi_params;
    }

}

Create symlink for opencart file.

sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/opencart /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/

Restart Nginx.

sudo systemctl restart nginx

Open your site in browser and follow installation wizard.

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