How to Install OpenCart on CentOS

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e’ll show you, How to install OpenCart on CentOS. If you want to create and run your own online business by creating an online store, then you should consider to use OpenCart eCommerce platform. OpenCart is a powerful, user-friendly, and free online shopping cart platform based on PHP. The installation of OpenCart on CentOS, is pretty easy and straightforward. To use OpenCart, you should have PHP, Apache and MySQL on your CentOS VPS or Fedora VPS.

1. Create a new database

First, let’s create a MySQL user and database for OpenCart:

# echo "CREATE DATABASE opencartdb;" | mysql -u root -p
# echo "CREATE USER 'opencartuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'PASSWORD';" | mysql -u root -p
# echo "GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON opencartdb.* TO 'opencartuser'@'localhost';" | mysql -u root -p
# echo "FLUSH PRIVILEGES;" | mysql -u root -p

2. Install PHP extensions

# yum install php-mysql php-gd php-curl php-pecl-zip

3. Restart the Apache web server

And restart your Apache server by executing:

# /etc/init.d/httpd restart

4. Download OpenCart

Download the latest stable version of OpenCart and unpack it:

# cd /tmp
# wget https://github.com/downloads/opencart/opencart/opencart_v1.5.4.1.zip && unzip opencart*

Copy all the files and directories from ‘/tmp/opencart_v1.5.4.1’ to a directory accessible by the web:

# rsync -Waq /tmp/opencart_v1.5.4.1/upload/ /var/www/html/opencart

The Apache user should own the OpenCart directory:

# chown -R apache: /var/www/html/opencart

5. Set up file permissions

Set the correct permissions:

# cd /var/www/html/opencart
# chmod 755 image/ image/cache/ image/data/ system/cache/ system/logs/ download/ config.php admin/config.php

6. Continue the installation via web browser

Now, navigate your browser to http://yourdomain.com/opencart and follow the on-screen instructions. The installation will check if the server settings match the OpenCart requirements and if the OpenCart files and directories are writable by the web server. The system will also prompt you to enter the name, username, and password for the newly created MySQL database. After all, do not forget to delete the installation directory:

7. Delete installation folder

# rm -rf /var/www/html/opencart/install

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