How to install Prestashop 1.7.4 on MX Linux 17

How to install Prestashop 1.7.4 on MX Linux 17

PrestaShop is an open-source e-commerce solution which allows you to maintain your own online shop. It is written in PHP programming language with support for the MySQL database management system. In this tutorial, we will cover the installation of Prestashop on MX Linux 17.

Prerequisites

Install LAMP(Apache, MariaDB, php7) In MariaDB (create database and user and give privileges to that user )

Php installation with required following modules

add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php 
apt-get update 
apt-get install php7.0 php7.0-mysql php7.0-curl php7.0-json php7.0-cgi libapache2-mod-php7.0 php7.0-mcrypt php7.0-xmlrpc php7.0-gd php7.0-mbstring php7.0  php7.0-common  php7.0-xmlrpc php7.0-soap  php7.0-xml php7.0-intl  php7.0-cli  php7.0-ldap php7.0-zip php7.0-readline php7.0-imap php7.0-tidy php7.0-recode php7.0-sq php7.0-intl

Download a Prestashop package using the following URL https://www.prestashop.com/en/download

Navigate to the Download directory

root@linuxhelp:~# cd Downloads/

Extract the downloaded package

root@linuxhelp:~/Downloads# unzip prestashop_1.7.4.2.zip
  Archive:  prestashop_1.7.4.2.zip
  inflating: prestashop.zip          
  inflating: index.php               
  inflating: Install_PrestaShop.html

Extract the Official document as follows

root@linuxhelp:~/Downloads# unzip prestashop.zip -d prestashop
Archive:  prestashop.zip
   creating: prestashop/classes/
  inflating: prestashop/classes/Zone.php  
   creating: prestashop/classes/exception/
  inflating: prestashop/classes/exception/PrestaShopPaymentException.php  
  inflating: prestashop/classes/exception/PrestaShopDatabaseException.php  
  inflating: prestashop/classes/exception/PrestaShopException.php  
  inflating: prestashop/classes/exception/PrestaShopObjectNotFoundException.php  
  inflating: prestashop/classes/exception/index.php
.
.
   creating: prestashop/app/Resources/views/
  inflating: prestashop/app/Resources/views/base.html.twig  
   creating: prestashop/app/Resources/views/default/
  inflating: prestashop/app/Resources/views/default/index.html.twig  
  inflating: prestashop/app/Resources/all_languages.json  
  inflating: prestashop/app/Resources/legacy-to-standard-locales.json  
   creating: prestashop/app/Resources/geoip/
  inflating: prestashop/app/Resources/geoip/index.php  
  inflating: prestashop/app/.htaccess  
  inflating: prestashop/app/AppKernel.php  

Move the extracted file into the HTML directory

root@linuxhelp:~/Downloads# mv prestashop /var/www/

Navigate to the apache document root directory

root@linuxhelp:~/Downloads# cd /var/www/

Change ownership and permission of the as Prestashop follows

root@linuxhelp:/var/www# chown -R www-data.www-data prestashop
root@linuxhelp:/var/www# chmod -R 775 prestashop

Create a new virtual host configuration for accessing the Prestashop

root@linuxhelp:/var/www# vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/prestashop.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.linuxhelp1.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/prestashop/

<Directory /var/www/prestashop/>
AllowOverride All
Allow from all
</Directory>

</VirtualHost>

Enable site access

root@linuxhelp:/var/www# a2ensite prestashop.conf
Enabling site prestashop.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
  service apache2 reload

Disable default access

root@linuxhelp:/var/www# a2dissite 000-default.conf
Site 000-default disabled.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
  service apache2 reload

Enable rewrite module

root@linuxhelp:/var/www# a2enmod rewrite
Enabling module rewrite.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
  service apache2 restart

Restart the apache service to make the changes effect

root@linuxhelp:/var/www# service apache2 restart
[ ok ] Restarting Apache httpd web server: apache2.

Now you can proceed the further installation and configuration from the browser by navigating to the following URL: http://<ipaddress or domain name

Choose the language for using Prestashop as shown below

Accept the license agreement ![License acceptance}(https://assets.linuxhelp.com/scr/370c765a6329a26d1231a63d7d8dbb7c.png)

Verify the compatibility for installing Prestashop as shown below

Configure the Site information and Admin user setup as follow

Configure the Database setup

You will see the installation of Prestashop

After the installation, you will see the following page as shown below

Access the login page from the options shown below

You can log in using the admin user credentials

After the Successful login, you will see the Admin dashboard of Prestashop as shown below

You will see the version of Prestashop

You will see the Homepage of Prestashop as shown below

With this, the method to install Prestashop on MX Linux 17 comes to an end.