SSD Nodes<\/strong><\/a> (check out our amazing anniversary deals), with the server environment for your preferred Linux Distribution.<\/p>\r\nFor this post, we are using Ubuntu 20.04, so take note if there are some minor changes depending on your distribution.<\/em><\/p>\r\nSo, let us install the 2 needed components: Apache web server<\/strong> to make the OpenCart store publicly available on the web, along with PHP<\/strong> scripting language.<\/p>\r\nInstall Apache<\/strong><\/p>\r\nBefore installing Apache, first, update the system repositories<\/p>\r\n
sudo apt update<\/code><\/pre>\r\nNext, install apache web server by running the command<\/p>\r\n
sudo apt install apache2 apache2-utils<\/code><\/pre>\r\nThe following commands can be used to start <\/strong>and enable <\/strong>Apache2 service to always start up with the server boots, as well as to check its status<\/strong>:<\/p>\r\nsudo systemctl enable --now apache2\r\nsudo systemctl status apache2<\/code><\/pre>\r\nYou can verify that Apache is really running by opening your favorite web browser and entering the URL http:\/\/IP_Server_Address<\/em><\/strong>, if it is installed, then you will see the following:<\/p>\r\n![\"ssd](\"https:\/\/www.ssdnodes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/word-image.jpg\")
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Install PHP 8<\/strong><\/p>\r\nTo install PHP 8, we start by adding a third-party PPA to Ubuntu:<\/p>\r\n
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej\/php<\/code><\/pre>\r\nThen, we update the packages cache in the system and install PHP packages:<\/p>\r\n
sudo apt update\r\nsudo apt install php8.0 libapache2-mod-php8.0<\/code><\/pre>\r\nAfter installation, restart Apache using the following command:<\/p>\r\n
sudo systemctl restart apache2<\/code><\/pre>\r\nOnce successfully installed, we confirm the using the following command:<\/p>\r\n
php -v<\/code><\/pre>\r\nWe also need to install additional PHP extensions to support OpenCart, we run the command below<\/p>\r\n
sudo apt install php8.0-curl php8.0-zip php8.0-gd php8.0-mbstring php8.0-xml php8.0-common php8.0-dba php8.0-mysql php8.0-odbc php8.0-phpdbg<\/code><\/pre>\r\nAnd... Restart Apache<\/p>\r\n
sudo systemctl restart apache2<\/code><\/pre>\r\nTo test PHP, create a text file named info.php with the content below. Save the file, then browse to it to see if PHP is working:<\/p>\r\n
nano \/var\/www\/html\/info.php<\/code><\/pre>\r\nIn this file, paste the following code:<\/p>\r\n
<?php
phpinfo();
?><\/code><\/pre>\r\nSave it by pressing Ctrl-x, <\/strong>then y, <\/strong>and Enter<\/strong><\/p>\r\nTry to access it at http:\/\/IP_Server_Address\/info.php<\/em><\/strong>. If the PHP info page is rendered in your browser then everything looks good and you are ready to proceed further.<\/p>\r\nStep 2: Creating a database for the shop<\/span><\/h1>\r\nThe next step is to create a database on the MariaDB free and open source database engine that is flexible, robust and easy-to-use.<\/p>\r\n
Install MariaDB<\/strong><\/p>\r\nsudo apt install software-properties-common mariadb-server mariadb-client<\/code><\/pre>\r\nThe commands below can be used to start <\/strong>and enable <\/strong>the MariaDB service to always start up when the server boots, as well as to check its status<\/strong>:<\/p>\r\nsudo systemctl enable --now mariadb\r\nsudo systemctl status mariadb<\/code><\/pre>\r\nNext, we need to secure our database platform to ward off any intruders or anonymous users.<\/p>\r\n
To accomplish this, run the command:<\/p>\r\n
mysql_secure_installation<\/code><\/pre>\r\nThis will present you with a series of questions that require you to set a strong password for the root user, remove test database and anonymous users and disallow remote login as root.<\/p>\r\n
For security reasons, Hit Y (Yes) for all of the prompts.<\/p>\r\n
Configure Database & user for OpenCart<\/strong><\/p>\r\nLogin to MariaDB<\/p>\r\n
mysql -u root -p<\/code><\/pre>\r\nIn this guide, we will create a database called opencartdb<\/em><\/strong>. Feel free to choose any name<\/p>\r\nCREATE DATABASE opencartdb;<\/code><\/pre>\r\nNext, create the database user and assign all privileges to the user<\/p>\r\n
CREATE USER 'opencartuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'strong-password<\/span>';\r\nGRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON opencartdb . * TO 'opencartuser'@'localhost';<\/code><\/pre>\r\nThe above command creates a database user opencart_user<\/em><\/strong> and grants all privileges to the user.<\/p>\r\nNote: <\/strong><\/span>remember to replace the strong_password<\/em><\/strong><\/span> attribute with your own strong password.<\/p>\r\nFinally, flush privileges and exit the database engine:<\/p>\r\n
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;\r\nEXIT;<\/code><\/pre>\r\n
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