How to Install QuickCart on Linuxmint 19

Installation of QuickCart on Linuxmint 19

The Quick cart is a free platform to create own shopping Websites like Flipkart, eBay, and Amazon etc. QuicakCart truly is free, user-friendly, open source shopping cart software. It contains features such as customization, integration with payment, works with any hosting company and can choose own domain name. It does not require any Database to run. It just requires a web server and PHP to be installed on the system.This tutorial explains the installation of Quick Cart on Linuxmint 19

Requirements for Quick cart:

Apache

Mysql

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-dev libmcrypt-dev php-pear php-pdo php-pdo-sqlite

Installation procedure

Check the Linuxmint version by using the following command

root@linuxhelp:~# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	LinuxMint
Description:	Linux Mint 19 Tara
Release:	19
Codename:	tara

Download the Quick cart Installation package by using the wget command.

root@linuxhelp:~# wget https://opensolution.org/download/home.html?sFile=Quick.Cart_v6.7.zip
--2019-06-22 09:01:21--  https://opensolution.org/download/home.html?sFile=Quick.Cart_v6.7.zip
Resolving opensolution.org (opensolution.org)... 94.152.51.156
Connecting to opensolution.org (opensolution.org)|94.152.51.156|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [application/zip]
Saving to: ‘home.html?sFile=Quick.Cart_v6.7.zip’

home.html?sFile=Quick.Cart_v6     [               <=>                             ] 646.01K  37.1KB/s    in 17s     

2019-06-22 09:01:43 (37.1 KB/s) - ‘home.html?sFile=Quick.Cart_v6.7.zip’ saved [661518]

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

root@linuxhelp:~# unzip home.html?sFile=Quick.Cart_v6.7.zip -d quickcart
Archive:  home.html?sFile=Quick.Cart_v6.7.zip
   creating: quickcart/core/
  inflating: quickcart/core/common-admin.js  
  inflating: quickcart/core/common-admin.php  
  inflating: quickcart/core/common.js  
  inflating: quickcart/core/common.php
.
.
  inflating: quickcart/templates/default/style.css  
  inflating: quickcart/templates/default/_footer.php  
  inflating: quickcart/templates/default/_header.php  
  inflating: quickcart/.htaccess     
  inflating: quickcart/admin.php     
  inflating: quickcart/index.php     
  inflating: quickcart/read-me.txt   

Move the Quick Cart directory to apache root directory

root@linuxhelp:~# mv quickcart /var/www/

Set the ownership and permission for Quick Cart by using the following command

root@linuxhelp:~# chown -R www-data.www-data /var/www/quickcart

root@linuxhelp:~# chmod -R 755 /var/www/quickcart

Configure the virtualhost for accessing the Quick Cart

root@linuxhelp:~# vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/quickcart.conf
<Virtualhost *:80>
        Servername www.linuxhelp1.com
        documentroot /var/www/quickcart
<directory /var/www/quickcart>
allowoverride all
allow from all
</directory>
</virtualhost>

Disable the default site access

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

Enable the site access for accessing the Quick cart

root@linuxhelp:~# a2ensite quickcart.conf
Enabling site quickcart.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
systemctl reload apache2

Enable the rewrite module

root@linuxhelp:~# a2enmod rewrite
Enabling module rewrite.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
systemctl restart apache2

Restart the apache service by using the following command

root@linuxhelp:~# systemctl restart apache2

Switch to your browser and enter the domain name Welcome page of Quick Cart

Enter your admin credentials for login in quick cart This is the dashboard of Quick Cart With this, the method to install Quick Cart on Linuxmint 19 comes to an end.