Installing Shopware Community Edition on Alpine Linux Latest

Shopware is a powerful and flexible e-commerce solution, designed to help businesses of all kinds to grow and succeed online. If you're interested in trying Shopware Community Edition on Alpine Linux, then this tutorial is for you.

Prerequisites

Before installing Shopware Community Edition on Alpine Linux, you must have:

• A working instance of Alpine Linux Latest
• Root or sudo access to the server
• A web server like Apache or Nginx already installed and configured

Step 1 - Install dependencies and PHP

To run Shopware, you will need MySQL/MariaDB, PHP, and several PHP extensions. You can install these in one go with the following command:

sudo apk add --update mysql mysql-client bash curl php php-mysqlnd php-curl php-pdo_mysql php-gd php-xml php7-openssl php7-json php7-session php7-mbstring php7-zip php7-iconv

Step 2 - Download and extract Shopware

Next, visit the Shopware Community Edition download page: https://www.shopware.com/community/ Download the ZIP package of the latest version of Shopware and move the downloaded file to the root of your server.

wget -O shopware.zip 'https://www.shopware.com/getfile/version/sw6_file.zip'
sudo unzip shopware.zip -d /var/www/

Step 3 - Set permissions

Next, you need to set the appropriate permissions so that the web server can read and write files to the Shopware directory.

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/ # Replace www-data with your webserver user if different
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/

Step 4 - Install Shopware

Shopware Community edition comes with a handy command-line installer called bin/setup. It automates the installation process and creates the required database tables and other default settings. Before installing, make sure the database is configured.

cd /var/www/shopware
bin/setup

Follow the prompts to complete the installation process. Once completed, Shopware Community Edition is ready to use!

Step 5 - Complete the setup

After installation, access the Shopware frontend from your website and complete the setup process. This includes creating an admin account, setting up payment gateways, and shipping methods.

Conclusion

Congratulations, you’ve successfully installed Shopware Community Edition on Alpine Linux Latest. Enjoy your new e-commerce site!

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