How to Install X-Cart on CentOS 7.6

Installation of X-Cart on CentOS 7.6

X-Cart is an open source eCommerce platform that runs on PHP. X-Cart is known for its fast performance and ease of use. It contains a plethora of themes and plugins with the application, along with some built-in plugins to support some modules. This tutorial explains the installation of X-Cart on Centos 7.6

Requirements for X-cart:

Apache

MariaDB

PHP and its modules

php php-xml php-mysql php-mbstring php-zip php-soap php-curl php-gd php-ldap php-imap php-common php-mcrypt

Installation procedure

Check the CentOS version by using the following command.

[root@linuxhelp ~]# rpm -q centos-release
centos-release-7-6.1810.2.el7.centos.x86_64

Configure the MySQL database. Log into MySQL as a root user and make the necessary settings.

[root@linuxhelp ~]# mysql -u root -p
Enter password: 
Welcome to the MariaDB monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MariaDB connection id is 10
Server version: 5.5.60-MariaDB MariaDB Server
Copyright (c) 2000, 2018, Oracle, MariaDB Corporation Ab and others.
Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.
MariaDB [(none)]> create database xcart;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.04 sec)
MariaDB [(none)]> create user 'xuser'@localhost identified by 'Linuxc#4';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.11 sec)
MariaDB [(none)]> grant all privileges on xcart.* to 'xuser'@localhost;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
MariaDB [(none)]> flush privileges;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
MariaDB [(none)]> Ctrl-C -- exit!
Aborted

Once the database configuration is done, download the installation package of X-cart by using the wget command.

[root@linuxhelp ~]# wget https://github.com/xcart/xcart5/archive/master.zip
--2019-05-30 11:48:43--  https://github.com/xcart/xcart5/archive/master.zip
Resolving github.com (github.com)... 13.234.176.102
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|13.234.176.102|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: https://codeload.github.com/xcart/xcart5/zip/master [following]
--2019-05-30 11:48:44--  https://codeload.github.com/xcart/xcart5/zip/master
Resolving codeload.github.com (codeload.github.com)... 192.30.253.120
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: ‘master.zip’
    [                                                  <=>      ] 59,855,785   437KB/s   in 91s    
2019-05-30 11:50:16 (642 KB/s) - ‘master.zip’ saved [59855785]

Once the download is completed extract the downloaded package using unzip command.

[root@linuxhelp ~]# unzip master.zip
Archive:  master.zip
fb007a4ddb4fd7c50d8e584193db2819673859d3
   creating: xcart5-master/
  inflating: xcart5-master/.gitignore  
  inflating: xcart5-master/README    
  inflating: xcart5-master/README.rdoc  
   creating: xcart5-master/src/
  inflating: xcart5-master/src/.htaccess  
  inflating: xcart5-master/src/CLOUDSEARCHTERMS.txt  
   creating: xcart5-master/src/Includes/
.
.
  inflating: xcart5-master/src/vendor/twig/twig/test/Twig/Tests/Profiler/ProfileTest.php  
  inflating: xcart5-master/src/vendor/twig/twig/test/Twig/Tests/TemplateTest.php  
  inflating: xcart5-master/src/vendor/twig/twig/test/Twig/Tests/TokenStreamTest.php  
  inflating: xcart5-master/src/vendor/twig/twig/test/Twig/Tests/escapingTest.php  
  inflating: xcart5-master/src/vendor/twig/twig/test/bootstrap.php  
  inflating: xcart5-master/src/xc5   

[root@linuxhelp ~]# mv xcart5-master /var/www/xcart

[root@linuxhelp ~]# chown -R apache:apache /var/www/xcart

[root@linuxhelp ~]# chmod -R 755 /var/www/xcart

[root@linuxhelp ~]# vim /etc/httpd/conf.d/xcart.conf
<Virtualhost *:80>
        Servername www.linuxhelp1.com
        Documentroot /var/www/xcart
<directory /var/www/xcart>
allowoverride all
allow from all
</directory>
</Virtualhost>

[root@linuxhelp ~]# systemctl restart httpd