How to install Litecart V2.1.2 on Linuxmint-18.03

To install Lite cart V2.1.2 on Linuxmint-18.03
LiteCart is a free and open source e-commerce platform which is developed in PHP and uses a MySQL database.

Pre-requirements
Install LAMP (Apache, php7.2, mariadb-server)
In MariaDB (create database, user and give privileges to the user)

FOR PHP INSTALLATION

add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php 
apt-get update 
apt install php7.2 libapache2-mod-php7.2 php7.2-common php7.2-mbstring php7.2-xmlrpc php7.2-soap php7.2-gd php7.2-xml php7.2-intl php7.2-mysql php7.2-cli php7.2-mcrypt php7.2-ldap php7.2-zip php7.2-curl

Download the Lite cart package from the browser using the following link https://www.litecart.net/download

linuxhelp ~ # cd /home/user/Downloads/
linuxhelp Downloads # ls
litecart-2.1.2.zip

After downloading extract the downloaded package as follows

linuxhelp Downloads # unzip litecart-2.1.2.zip -d litecart
Archive:  litecart-2.1.2.zip
52b11258f6ad5b320ebfdc641831ba87ad504bd9
  inflating: litecart/CREDITS.md     
  inflating: litecart/LICENSE.md     
  inflating: litecart/README.md      
  inflating: litecart/STANDARD.md    
  inflating: litecart/UPGRADE.md     
   creating: litecart/art/
  inflating: litecart/art/cart.svg   
  inflating: litecart/art/loader.svg  
  inflating: litecart/art/logotype.svg  
.
.
.
inflating: litecart/public_html/vqmod/.htaccess  
 extracting: litecart/public_html/vqmod/checked.cache  
 extracting: litecart/public_html/vqmod/index.html  
 extracting: litecart/public_html/vqmod/mods.cache  
  inflating: litecart/public_html/vqmod/readme.txt  
   creating: litecart/public_html/vqmod/vqcache/
 extracting: litecart/public_html/vqmod/vqcache/index.html  
  inflating: litecart/public_html/vqmod/vqmod.php  
   creating: litecart/public_html/vqmod/xml/
 extracting: litecart/public_html/vqmod/xml/index.html  

Move the Lite cart directory into the /var/www/html directory

linuxhelp Downloads # ls
litecart  litecart-2.1.2.zip
linuxhelp Downloads # mv litecart /var/www/html/
Go to /var/www/html directory
linuxhelp Downloads # cd /var/www/html/
linuxhelp html # ls
index.html  litecart

linuxhelp html # chown -R www-data:www-data litecart/
linuxhelp html # chmod -R 775 litecart/

linuxhelp html # cd /etc/apache2/sites-available/
linuxhelp sites-available # vim lite.conf
< virtualhost *:80> 
servername  www.linuxhelp1.com
Documentroot  /var/www/html/litecart
< Directory /var/www/html/litecart> 
AllowOverride all
order allow,deny
allow from all
< /Directory> 
< /virtualhost> 

linuxhelp sites-available # a2ensite lite.conf 
Enabling site lite.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
  service apache2 reload   

linuxhelp sites-available # a2enmod rewrite 
Enabling module rewrite.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
  service apache2 restart

linuxhelp sites-available # a2enmod headers 
Enabling module headers.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
  service apache2 restart

linuxhelp sites-available # vim /etc/hosts
< give your ip>     < give your domain name> 

linuxhelp sites-available # systemctl restart apache2.service