How to install Prestashop V.1.7.3.4 on linuxmint-18.03

To install Prestashop V.1.7.3.4 on linuxmint-18.03

PrestaShop is a popular and widely used open source and free eCommerce platform based on PHP. It has comprehensive product features for small, medium and large businesses to create and manage their online stores for free.

Pre-requirements

Install LAMP (Apache, php7.1, 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-get install php7.1-mysql php7.1-curl php7.1-json php7.1-cgi php7.1 libapache2-mod-php7.1 php7.1-mcrypt php7.1-xmlrpc php7.1-gd php7.1-mbstring php7.1  php7.1-common  php7.1-xmlrpc php7.1-soap  
php7.1-xml php7.1-intl  php7.1-cli  php7.1-ldap php7.1-zip php7.1-readline php7.1-imap php7.1-tidy php7.1-recode php7.1-sqlite3 php7.1-xdebug php7.1-gettext php7.1-dev php7.1-pear php7.1-memcache 
php7.17.1-memcached php7.1-bz2 php7.1-apcu-bc php7.1-igbinary php7.1-ttf-dejavu-core

Download the PrestaShop package using wget command

linuxhelp ~ # wget https://github.com/PrestaShop/PrestaShop/archive/1.7.3.2.zip
--2018-05-05 04:49:28--  https://github.com/PrestaShop/PrestaShop/archive/1.7.3.2.zip
Resolving github.com (github.com)... 192.30.253.113, 192.30.253.112
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|192.30.253.113|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: https://codeload.github.com/PrestaShop/PrestaShop/zip/1.7.3.2 [following]
--2018-05-05 04:49:31--  https://codeload.github.com/PrestaShop/PrestaShop/zip/1.7.3.2
Resolving codeload.github.com (codeload.github.com)... 192.30.253.120, 192.30.253.121
Connecting to codeload.github.com (codeload.github.com)|192.30.253.120|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [application/zip]
Saving to: ‘ 1.7.3.2.zip’ 

1.7.3.2.zip                         [                                               < =>     ]  25.84M  37.2KB/s    in 11m 40s 

2018-05-05 05:01:16 (37.8 KB/s) - ‘ 1.7.3.2.zip’  saved [27100374]

Extract the downloaded directory

linuxhelp ~ # unzip 1.7.3.2.zip 
Archive:  1.7.3.2.zip
3360cf9640d6d2638e378cf8d8ed6392f51e40f4
   creating: PrestaShop-1.7.3.2/
  inflating: PrestaShop-1.7.3.2/.editorconfig  
  inflating: PrestaShop-1.7.3.2/.eslintrc.json  
   creating: PrestaShop-1.7.3.2/.github/
  inflating: PrestaShop-1.7.3.2/.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md  
   creating: PrestaShop-1.7.3.2/.github/contrib/
  inflating: PrestaShop-1.7.3.2/.github/contrib/install.php  
  inflating: PrestaShop-1.7.3.2/.github/contrib/pre-commit  .
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.
   creating: PrestaShop-1.7.3.2/upload/
  inflating: PrestaShop-1.7.3.2/upload/.htaccess  
   creating: PrestaShop-1.7.3.2/vendor/
  inflating: PrestaShop-1.7.3.2/vendor/.htaccess  
   creating: PrestaShop-1.7.3.2/webservice/
  inflating: PrestaShop-1.7.3.2/webservice/dispatcher.php  
  inflating: PrestaShop-1.7.3.2/webservice/index.php  

Rename the extracted directory

linuxhelp ~ # ls
1.7.3.2.zip  PrestaShop-1.7.3.2
linuxhelp ~ # mv PrestaShop-1.7.3.2/ prestashop

Move the PrestaShop directory into the /var/www/html directory

linuxhelp html # mv prestashop/ /var/www/html/
Go to /var/www/html directory
linuxhelp ~ # cd /var/www/html/
linuxhelp html # ls
index.html  prestashop

Change ownership and permission for the prestashop directory

linuxhelp html # chown -R www-data:www-data prestashop/ & &  chmod -R 775 prestashop/
we have to configure virtual host for prestashop. Create empty file named presta.conf:
linuxhelp html # cd /etc/apache2/sites-available/
linuxhelp sites-available # vim presta.conf
[&hellip ]
< virtualhost *:80> 
servername  www.linuxhelp1.com
Documentroot  /var/www/html/prestashop/
< Directory /var/www/html/prestashop/> 
AllowOverride
order allow,deny
allow from all
< /Directory> 
< /virtualhost> 
 [&hellip ]        
 

Enable the Prestashop.conf file

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

Enable the rewrite module

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

Install composer using the following commands

linuxhelp prestashop # composer install
Loading composer repositories with package information
Installing dependencies (including require-dev) from lock file
  - Installing composer/installers (v1.0.21)
    Loading from cache

  - Installing beberlei/doctrineextensions (v1.0.19)
    Loading from cache

  - Installing twig/twig (v1.35.0)
    Loading from cache.
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phpunit/phpunit suggests installing phpunit/php-invoker (~1.1)
Package phpoffice/phpexcel is abandoned, you should avoid using it. Use phpoffice/phpspreadsheet instead.
Generating autoload files
>  PrestaShopPrestaShopCoreCldrComposerHook::init
Init CLDR data download...
Finished...
>  SensioBundleDistributionBundleComposerScriptHandler::buildBootstrap
>  SensioBundleDistributionBundleComposerScriptHandler::installRequirementsFile
>  SensioBundleDistributionBundleComposerScriptHandler::prepareDeploymentTarget
We have to edit the php.ini:
linuxhelp prestashop # vim /etc/php/7.1/apache2/php.ini
memory_limit = 256M
upload_max_file_size = 64M

linuxhelp prestashop # systemctl restart apache2.service 

linuxhelp prestashop # rm &ndash rvf install
linuxhelp prestashop # systemctl restart apache2.service