S-Cart is a free and open-source ecommerce platform that allows you to create and manage your own online store. In this tutorial, we will cover the steps to install S-Cart on Elementary OS Latest.
Before we begin, make sure your system meets the following requirements:
A server with a LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) installed.
PHP version 7.0 or higher.
The composer dependency manager installed. You can install composer by running the following command on your terminal:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install composer
To download the S-Cart files, you can either download the latest version of S-Cart from the s-cart.org/">official S-Cart website or use the following commands on your terminal:
cd /var/www/html
git clone https://github.com/s-cart/s-cart.git
Once the download is complete, navigate to the s-cart directory using the following commands:
cd s-cart
Before we can start using S-Cart, we need to install its dependencies. Run the following command to install S-Cart's dependencies:
composer install
This command will download and install all the necessary packages and libraries required by S-Cart.
S-Cart requires a configuration file, which can be generated using the following command:
cp app/config-sample.inc.php app/config.inc.php
Once the configuration file is created, you need to modify it according to your database details. Open the app/config.inc.php file and edit the following lines:
define('DB_HOSTNAME', 'localhost');
define('DB_USERNAME', 'root');
define('DB_PASSWORD', '');
define('DB_DATABASE', 's_cart');
Replace DB_HOSTNAME, DB_USERNAME, DB_PASSWORD, and DB_DATABASE with your own database details.
You need to create a new database for S-Cart. Connect to your MySQL server by running the following command:
mysql -u root -p
Enter your root password when prompted, and then run the following commands to create a new database for S-Cart:
CREATE DATABASE s_cart;
Exit the MySQL prompt by running the following command:
Exit;
To import the S-Cart database, navigate to the s-cart directory and run the following command:
mysql -u root -p s_cart < s_cart_v2.1.sql
This command will import the database structure into your s_cart database.
To make sure S-Cart is accessible through a web browser, you need to configure Apache's virtual host. Open the Apache virtual host configuration file by running the following command:
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf
Add the following code to the configuration file, making sure to replace /var/www/html/s-cart with the path to your S-Cart installation:
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/s-cart
ServerName your_domain_name_or_IP_address
</VirtualHost>
Save and close the file, and then restart Apache by running the following command:
sudo systemctl restart apache2
You can now access S-Cart by opening your web browser and navigating to your server's IP address or domain name.
In this tutorial, we covered the steps to install S-Cart on Elementary OS Latest. You can now use S-Cart to create and manage your own online store.
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