How to install Open eShop on Ubuntu

How to install Open eShop on Ubuntu

There are many ecommerce platforms on both Linux and Windows. One of the most widely used eCommerce software is Open eShop. The Open eShop is an open source software for eCommerce platforms that is developed to sell digital goods without commissions. It is written in PHP script which allows you to start selling any digital good, like MP3, eBooks, Movies, Software.. or any service you may offer to customer. This article covers the ground on the installation procedure of Open eShop on Ubuntu.

Features

• Many payments system options, like Paypal, Card (using Paymill, Authorize, or Stripe) and Bitpay
• Integrated Customer Support System, which fully supports clients through an easy interface, with notifications about new tickets
• Discount coupons limited by product, time or availability
• Integrated Blog, FAQ and Forum infrastructures
• Detailed tracking about store’ s performance
• License generation for sell digital goods

Pre-Requisites

• One server running Ubuntu 16.04
• LAMP stack installed on Ubuntu 16.04

Installation procedure

Create the new database for open eShop and also createa new user and give privileges by running the following set of commands as follows.

root@linuxhelp1:~# mysql -u root -p
Enter password:
Welcome to the MariaDB monitor.  Commands end with   or g.
Your MariaDB connection id is 32
Server version: 10.0.29-MariaDB-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 Ubuntu 16.04
Copyright (c) 2000, 2016, Oracle, MariaDB Corporation Ab and others.
Type ' help '  or ' h'  for help. Type ' c'  to clear the current input statement.

MariaDB [(none)]>  CREATE DATABASE openeshop_db 
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

MariaDB [(none)]>   CREATE USER ' openeshop' @' localhost'  IDENTIFIED BY ' 123'  
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.02 sec)

MariaDB [(none)]>  GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON openeshop_db.* TO ' openeshop' @' localhost'  
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

MariaDB [(none)]>  FLUSH PRIVILEGES 
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

MariaDB [(none)]>  exit
Bye

Next, to install Open eShop Lite, download the Open eShop Lite in the web root directory, which is /var/www/html. Create a new directory with the following command.

root@linuxhelp1:~# mkdir /var/www/html/openeshop

root@linuxhelp1:~# cd /var/www/html/openeshop

root@linuxhelp1:~/var/www/html/openeshop#  wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/open-classifieds/open-eshop/master/install-eshop.php

root@linuxhelp1:~/var/www/html/openeshop# chown -R www-data:www-data install-eshop.php

root@linuxhelp1:~/var/www/html/openeshop# systemctl restart apache

root@linuxhelp1:~# $EDITOR /etc/php/7.0/apache2/php.ini

Change the line short_open_tag = Off with short_open_tag = On. It should be line 202.

[PHP]

                   
  About php.ini    
                   
  PHP' s initialization file, generally called php.ini, is responsible for
  configuring many of the aspects of PHP' s behavior.
.
.
.
.
  http://php.net/short-open-tag
short_open_tag = On
.
.

root@linuxhelp1:~# systemctl restart apache2