In this tutorial, we will be installing Thelia, a free and open-source e-commerce software, on Alpine Linux Latest. This tutorial assumes that you have a working Alpine Linux installation and are comfortable working with the command-line interface.
Before we can install Thelia, we need to install its dependencies. Run the following command to install PHP, Apache, and other necessary packages.
sudo apk add php7 apache2 curl unzip
Next, we need to download the Thelia source code. We will be using curl to download the latest version of Thelia.
curl -LJO https://github.com/thelia/thelia/releases/latest/download/thelia.zip
This command will download the latest version of Thelia and save it as thelia.zip in the current directory.
Once the files are downloaded, we can extract Thelia using the unzip command.
unzip thelia.zip
This command will extract the files to a folder named thelia. You can change this folder name if you like.
We now need to configure Apache to serve the Thelia application. First, we will disable the default Apache page and then create a new virtual host configuration file for Thelia.
Disable the default Apache page:
sudo mv /etc/apache2/conf.d/welcome.conf /etc/apache2/conf.d/welcome.conf.disabled
Create a new virtual host configuration file for Thelia:
sudo tee /etc/apache2/conf.d/thelia.conf <<EOF
Alias / /path/to/thelia/
<Directory /path/to/thelia>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [QSA,L]
</IfModule>
</Directory>
EOF
Replace /path/to/thelia with the full path to the Thelia folder on your system.
Restart Apache for the changes to take effect:
sudo service apache2 restart
Thelia needs to be configured before it can be used. To do this, rename the local/config-dist.php file to local/config.php.
cd thelia
mv local/config-dist.php local/config.php
Next, edit the local/config.php file and update the database settings.
define('DATABASE_HOST', 'localhost');
define('DATABASE_NAME', 'thelia');
define('DATABASE_USER', 'thelia');
define('DATABASE_PASSWORD', 'yourpassword');
Replace yourpassword with the actual password for the Thelia database user.
Finally, we can install Thelia by visiting the http://localhost in your web browser. Follow the setup wizard to complete the installation.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Thelia on Alpine Linux Latest.
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