CS-Cart is a powerful eCommerce platform for online sellers to sell and manage their product inventories. It has all you need to create and manage an online store, with its powerful product management modules.
If you’re looking for a high performance, SEO-friendly eCommerce CMS platform, you’ll find CS-Cart to be useful. This brief tutorial is going to show students and new users how to install CS-Cart on Ubuntu 16.04 / 17.10 and 18.04 LTS with Apache2, MariaDB and PHP support.
This post covers installing the latest version of CS-Cart, which at the time of writing was at version 4.7.4.
To get started with installing CS-Cart, follow the steps below:
Step 1: Install Apache2
CS-Cart requires a webserver to function and the most popular webserver in use today is Apache2. So, go and install Apache2 on Ubuntu by running the commands below:
sudo apt update sudo apt install apache2
After installing Apache2, run the commands below to disable directory listing.
sudo sed -i "s/Options Indexes FollowSymLinks/Options FollowSymLinks/" /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
Next, run the commands below to stop, start and enable Apache2 service to always start up with the server boots.
sudo systemctl stop apache2.service sudo systemctl start apache2.service sudo systemctl enable apache2.service
Step 2: Install MariaDB
CS-Cart also requires a database server to function. and MariaDB database server is a great place to start. To install it run the commands below.
sudo apt-get install mariadb-server mariadb-client
After installing MariaDB, the commands below can be used to stop, start and enable MariaDB service to always start up when the server boots.
Run these on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
sudo systemctl stop mysql.service sudo systemctl start mysql.service sudo systemctl enable mysql.service
Run these on Ubuntu 17.10 and 18.04 LTS
sudo systemctl stop mariadb.service sudo systemctl start mariadb.service sudo systemctl enable mariadb.service
After that, run the commands below to secure MariaDB server by creating a root password and disallowing remote root access.
sudo mysql_secure_installation
When prompted, answer the questions below by following the guide.
- Enter current password for root (enter for none): Just press the Enter
- Set root password? [Y/n]: Y
- New password: Enter password
- Re-enter new password: Repeat password
- Remove anonymous users? [Y/n]: Y
- Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n]: Y
- Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n]: Y
- Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n]: Y
Restart MariaDB server
sudo systemctl restart mariadb.service
Step 3: Install PHP and Related Modules
PHP 7.2 may not be available in Ubuntu default repositories. in order to install it, you will have to get it from third-party repositories.
Run the commands below to add the below third party repository to upgrade to PHP 7.2
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
Then update and upgrade to PHP 7.2
sudo apt update
Next, run the commands below to install PHP 7.2 and related modules.
sudo apt install php7.2 libapache2-mod-php7.2 php7.2-common php7.2-sqlite3 php7.2-curl php7.2-intl php7.2-mbstring php7.2-xmlrpc php7.2-mysql php7.2-gd php7.2-xml php7.2-cli php7.2-zip
After installing PHP 7.2, run the commands below to open PHP default config file for Apache2.
sudo nano /etc/php/7.2/apache2/php.ini
Then make the changes on the following lines below in the file and save. The value below are great settings to apply in your environments.
file_uploads = On allow_url_fopen = On short_open_tag = On memory_limit = 256M upload_max_filesize = 100M max_execution_time = 360 date.timezone = America/Chicago
After making the change above, save the file and close out.
Step 4: Create CS-Cart Database
Now that you’ve install all the packages that are required, continue below to start configuring the servers. First run the commands below to create CS-Cart database.
Run the commands below to logon to the database server. When prompted for a password, type the root password you created above.
sudo mysql -u root -p
Then create a database called cscart
CREATE DATABASE cscart;
Create a database user called cscartuser with new password
CREATE USER 'cscartuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'new_password_here';
Then grant the user full access to the database.
GRANT ALL ON cscart.* TO 'cscartuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'user_password_here' WITH GRANT OPTION;
Finally, save your changes and exit.
FLUSH PRIVILEGES; EXIT;
Step 5: Download CS-Cart Latest Release
Next, visit CS-Cart site and register for a free account. You must register before you’re allowed to download a copy.
After downloading, run the commands below to extract the download file into Apache2 root directory.
sudo mkdir /var/www/html/cscart sudo unzip cscart_v4.7.4.zip -d /var/www/html/cscart
Then run the commands below to set the correct permissions for CS-Cart to function.
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/cscart/ sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/cscart/
Step 6: Configure Apache2
Finally, configure Apahce2 site configuration file for CS-Cart. This file will control how users access CS-Cart content. Run the commands below to create a new configuration file called cscart.conf
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/cscart.conf
Then copy and paste the content below into the file and save it. Replace the highlighted line with your own domain name and directory root location.
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin admin@example.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/cscart/
ServerName example.com
ServerAlias www.example.com
<Directory /var/www/html/cscart/>
Options FollowSymlinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Save the file and exit.
Step 7: Enable the CS-Cart and Rewrite Module
After configuring the VirtualHost above, enable it by running the commands below
sudo a2ensite cscart.conf
sudo a2enmod rewrite
Step 8 : Restart Apache2
To load all the settings above, restart Apache2 by running the commands below.
sudo systemctl restart apache2.service
Then open your browser and browse to the server domain name followed by install. You should see CS-Cart setup wizard to complete. Please follow the wizard carefully.
Then enter the database information as well as the site administrator login credentials, then click Install
Wait and CS-Cart should install successfully. Login and begin using your program.
Enjoy!
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