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How to setup and install LiteCart in Ubuntu

To Setup and Install LiteCart in Ubuntu

LiteCart is a free online catalog and cart platform. It is programmed in PHP using HTML and CSS. LiteCart has an elegant and simple admin panel. It is well knowm for its simplicity, lightweight and convenience. Installation and configuration of LiteCart in Ubuntu is explained.

To install LiteCart

Before installing the LiteCart, update the system by using the below command.

root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get update 
Hit:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease
Hit:2 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:3 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease
Hit:4 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease
Reading package lists... Done


Then install the Apache and MySQL server.

root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get install apache2 mysql-server -y 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libpango1.0-0 libpangox-1.0-0
Use ' sudo apt autoremove'  to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
  apache2-bin apache2-data apache2-utils libaio1 libapr1 libaprutil1 libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3 libaprutil1-ldap libevent-core-2.0-5
  libhtml-template-perl liblua5.1-0 mysql-client-5.7 mysql-client-core-5.7 mysql-common mysql-server-5.7 mysql-server-core-5.7
Suggested packages:
  apache2-doc apache2-suexec-pristine | apache2-suexec-custom libipc-sharedcache-perl mailx tinyca
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  apache2 apache2-bin apache2-data apache2-utils libaio1 libapr1 libaprutil1 libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3 libaprutil1-ldap
  libevent-core-2.0-5 libhtml-template-perl liblua5.1-0 mysql-client-5.7 mysql-client-core-5.7 mysql-common mysql-server
  mysql-server-5.7 mysql-server-core-5.7
0 upgraded, 18 newly installed, 0 to remove and 221 not upgraded.
Need to get 19.6 MB of archives.
After this operation, 167 MB of additional disk space will be used.
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Setting up mysql-client-core-5.7 (5.7.15-0ubuntu0.16.04.1) ...
Setting up mysql-client-5.7 (5.7.15-0ubuntu0.16.04.1) ...
Setting up mysql-server-core-5.7 (5.7.15-0ubuntu0.16.04.1) ...
Setting up mysql-server-5.7 (5.7.15-0ubuntu0.16.04.1) ...
update-alternatives: using /etc/mysql/mysql.cnf to provide /etc/mysql/my.cnf (my.cnf) in auto mode
Renaming removed key_buffer and myisam-recover options (if present)
Setting up libhtml-template-perl (2.95-2) ...
Setting up mysql-server (5.7.15-0ubuntu0.16.04.1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for systemd (229-4ubuntu6) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-19) ...
Processing triggers for ufw (0.35-0ubuntu2) ...


Set the password for the mysql

After setting the password, install PHP and its modules.

root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get install php7.0 libapache2-mod-php7.0 php7.0-mcrypt php7.0-mysql php7.0-gd -y 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libpango1.0-0 libpangox-1.0-0
Use ' sudo apt autoremove'  to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libmcrypt4 php-common php7.0-cli php7.0-common php7.0-json php7.0-opcache php7.0-readline
Suggested packages:
  php-pear libmcrypt-dev mcrypt
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libapache2-mod-php7.0 libmcrypt4 php-common php7.0 php7.0-cli php7.0-common php7.0-gd php7.0-json php7.0-mcrypt php7.0-mysql
  php7.0-opcache php7.0-readline
0 upgraded, 12 newly installed, 0 to remove and 221 not upgraded.
Need to get 3,669 kB of archives.
After this operation, 14.8 MB of additional disk space will be used.
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Module mpm_event disabled.
Enabling module mpm_prefork.
apache2_switch_mpm Switch to prefork
apache2_invoke: Enable module php7.0
Setting up libmcrypt4 (2.5.8-3.3) ...
Setting up php7.0 (7.0.8-0ubuntu0.16.04.2) ...
Setting up php7.0-gd (7.0.8-0ubuntu0.16.04.2) ...

Creating config file /etc/php/7.0/mods-available/gd.ini with new version
Setting up php7.0-mcrypt (7.0.8-0ubuntu0.16.04.2) ...

Creating config file /etc/php/7.0/mods-available/mcrypt.ini with new version
Setting up php7.0-mysql (7.0.8-0ubuntu0.16.04.2) ...

Creating config file /etc/php/7.0/mods-available/mysqlnd.ini with new version

Creating config file /etc/php/7.0/mods-available/mysqli.ini with new version

Creating config file /etc/php/7.0/mods-available/pdo_mysql.ini with new version
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for libapache2-mod-php7.0 (7.0.8-0ubuntu0.16.04.2) ...


Now start and enable the MySQL service.

root@linuxhelp1:~# systemctl start mysql.service
root@linuxhelp1:~# systemctl enable mysql.service 
Synchronizing state of mysql.service with SysV init with /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install...
Executing /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install enable mysql


Then check the status by executing the following command.

root@linuxhelp1:~# systemctl status mysql.service 
? mysql.service - MySQL Community Server
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/mysql.service  enabled  vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Tue 2016-10-04 05:24:26 IST  4min 13s ago
 Main PID: 7481 (mysqld)
   CGroup: /system.slice/mysql.service
           ??7481 /usr/sbin/mysqld

Oct 04 05:24:25 linuxhelp1 systemd[1]: Starting MySQL Community Server...
Oct 04 05:24:26 linuxhelp1 systemd[1]: Started MySQL Community Server.
Oct 04 05:27:32 linuxhelp1 systemd[1]: Started MySQL Community Server.


Create a database and database user, grant all the permission to the user to access the database.

root@linuxhelp1:~# mysql -u root -p 
Enter password: 
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with   or g.
Your MySQL connection id is 4
Server version: 5.7.15-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 (Ubuntu)

Copyright (c) 2000, 2016, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its
affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective
owners.

Type ' help '  or ' h'  for help. Type ' c'  to clear the current input statement.

mysql>  create database litecart 
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.20 sec)

mysql>  grant all privileges on litecart.* to user1@localhost identified by ' linuxc'  
Query OK, 0 rows affected, 1 warning (0.29 sec)

mysql>  flush privileges 
Query OK, 0 rows affected (1.26 sec)

mysql>  exit
Bye


Now create a directory for the LiteCart and navigate inside the directory.

root@linuxhelp1:~# mkdir /var/www/html/litecart
root@linuxhelp1:~# cd /var/www/html/litecart/
root@linuxhelp1:/var/www/html/litecart#


Open the browser, go to the official page of the LiteCart and download it.


Then move to the downloaded path and extract the package to the document root directory.

root@linuxhelp1:/var/www/html/litecart# cd /home/user1/Downloads/
root@linuxhelp1:~/Downloads# ls 
litecart-1.3.6.zip
root@linuxhelp1:~/Downloads# unzip litecart-1.3.6.zip -d /var/www/html/litecart/ 
Archive:  litecart-1.3.6.zip
  inflating: /var/www/html/litecart/CREDITS.md  
  inflating: /var/www/html/litecart/LICENSE.md  
  inflating: /var/www/html/litecart/README.md  
  inflating: /var/www/html/litecart/STANDARD.md  
  inflating: /var/www/html/litecart/UPGRADE.md  
   creating: /var/www/html/litecart/art/
  inflating: /var/www/html/litecart/art/cart.svg  
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creating: /var/www/html/litecart/public_html/vqmod/
  inflating: /var/www/html/litecart/public_html/vqmod/.htaccess  
 extracting: /var/www/html/litecart/public_html/vqmod/checked.cache  
 extracting: /var/www/html/litecart/public_html/vqmod/index.html  
 extracting: /var/www/html/litecart/public_html/vqmod/mods.cache  
  inflating: /var/www/html/litecart/public_html/vqmod/readme.txt  
   creating: /var/www/html/litecart/public_html/vqmod/vqcache/
 extracting: /var/www/html/litecart/public_html/vqmod/vqcache/index.html  
  inflating: /var/www/html/litecart/public_html/vqmod/vqmod.php  
   creating: /var/www/html/litecart/public_html/vqmod/xml/
 extracting: /var/www/html/litecart/public_html/vqmod/xml/index.html  
  inflating: /var/www/html/litecart/.gitignore


Change the owner permission for that directory by executing the following command.

root@linuxhelp1:~/Downloads# chown www-data:www-data -R /var/www/html/litecart/


Open the apache configuration file and add the following code inside the file.

root@linuxhelp1:~/Downloads# vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/litecart.conf 

ServerAdmin admin@linuxhelp1.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/litecart/
    ServerName www.linuxhelp1.com
    ServerAlias www.linuhxelp1.com

    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
    Order allow,deny
    allow from all

    ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/linuxhelp1.com/error_log
    CustomLog /var/log/apache2/linuxhelp1.com/access_log common


Create directory and the logs files that you have mentioned in your configuration file.

root@linuxhelp1:~/Downloads# mkdir /var/log/apache2/linuxhelp1
root@linuxhelp1:~/Downloads# touch /var/log/apache2/linuxhelp1/error_log
root@linuxhelp1:~/Downloads# touch /var/log/apache2/linuxhelp1/access_log


Open the below URL in your favorite browser,
http://< your_domain> /litecart/public_html

Fill the details of your database and admin credentials


Now click install now to start installation
Now the install is completed

Click on administration area to get the login screen


Now you can be able to see the litecart

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Q
What is Litecart?
A
*LiteCart is a free online catalog and cart platform. It is programmed in PHP using HTML and CSS. *LiteCart has an elegant and simple admin panel.
Q
How to install PHP and its modules in Ubuntu?
A
After setting the password, install PHP and its modules
# apt-get install php7.0 libapache2-mod-php7.0 php7.0-mcrypt php7.0-mysql php7.0-gd -y
Q
How to start and enable the MySQL service?
A
These two commands used for start and enable the MySQL service
# systemctl start mysql.service
# systemctl enable mysql.service
Q
How to install LiteCart in Ubuntu?
A
Before installing the LiteCart, We should follow some steps
1.update the system
2. Then install the Apache and MySQL server
3.Set the password for the MySQL
4. After setting the password, install PHP and its modules
5. Now start and enable the MySQL service and Create a database and database user, grant all the permission to the user to access the database
6. Now create a directory for the LiteCart and navigate inside the directory
7. Then move to the downloaded path and extract the package to the document root directory
8. Change the owner permission for that directory
These steps are followed by the installation of LiteCart