In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Drupal Commerce, an open-source e-commerce framework designed for Drupal CMS, on Alpine Linux Latest.
The first and foremost step is to update the package lists and install the latest available updates. Use the following commands to do so:
sudo apk update
sudo apk upgrade
Before installing Drupal Commerce, we need to install some prerequisites and required dependencies. Use the following command to install it:
sudo apk add git nginx php7 php7-fpm php7-opcache php7-zlib php7-xml php7-pdo php7-tokenizer php7-json php7-dom php7-xmlwriter php7-phar php7-openssl php7-fileinfo php7-gd php7-curl php7-iconv php7-simplexml php7-xmlreader php7-mbstring php7-session php7-pdo_mysql php7-ctype php7-posix php7-intl php7-ldap php7-pecl-imagick php7-pecl-apcu php7-zip
We can get the latest Drupal Commerce version from the official website. We will use Git to clone the source code.
Use the following command to navigate to the /var/www/ directory:
cd /var/www/
Use the following command to clone the latest Drupal Commerce version:
sudo git clone https://git.drupalcode.org/project/commerce.git
The command above will create a commerce folder.
To allow Nginx to serve the Commerce application, we need to configure a new Nginx virtual host.
Create a new configuration file by running the following command:
sudo nano /etc/nginx/conf.d/commerce.conf
Add the following configuration directives to the file:
server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
server_name your_domain.com;
root /var/www/commerce/web;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
# Drupal Commerce rewrite rules
location / {
try_files $uri /index.php?$query_string;
}
# PHP-FPM
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php-fpm7.4.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
# Nginx static file caching
location ~* \.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico)$ {
expires 30d;
add_header Cache-Control "public, max-age=31536000";
add_header Last-Modified "";
add_header ETag "";
break;
}
}
Save and close the file by pressing Ctrl + X, Y, and Enter.
Make sure that Nginx is enabled and started with the following commands:
sudo rc-update add nginx default
sudo rc-service nginx restart
Open your web browser and navigate to http://your_domain.com/. You should see a Drupal Commerce installation screen.
Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation process, including setting up the database, user management, and theme customization.
After completing the installation process, you can access the Drupal Commerce website by typing http://your_domain.com/ into your web browser.
That's it! You've successfully installed Drupal Commerce on your Alpine Linux Latest VPS. You can now build your e-commerce store on this platform.
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