PrestaShop is a popular, free and open-source e-commerce platform that allows businesses to create and manage their online stores. In this tutorial, we'll guide you through the process of installing PrestaShop on Linux Mint, which is a popular, user-friendly Linux distribution.
Before you start, make sure you have the following:
PrestaShop is built on top of PHP, so you'll need to install a LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) on your Linux Mint system.
Open the terminal and run the following command to install the LAMP stack:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install apache2 mysql-server php php-mysql
Once the installation is complete, start the Apache and MySQL services and enable them to start at boot time:
sudo systemctl start apache2
sudo systemctl start mysql
sudo systemctl enable apache2
sudo systemctl enable mysql
To verify that the LAMP stack is installed and running, open your web browser and visit http://localhost/. You should see the default Apache2 page.
Go to the PrestaShop website (https://www.prestashop.com/) and download the latest version of PrestaShop.
Open the terminal and navigate to the directory where you want to download and extract the PrestaShop archive:
cd /var/www/html/
wget https://www.prestashop.com/download/old/prestashop_1.7.6.2.zip
Extract the archive using the following command:
sudo apt install unzip
unzip prestashop_1.7.6.2.zip
This will create a new directory called "prestashop" in the /var/www/html/ directory.
Create a new virtual host configuration file for PrestaShop in the /etc/apache2/sites-available/ directory:
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/prestashop.conf
Add the following content to the file:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin admin@example.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/prestashop/
ServerName example.com
ServerAlias www.example.com
<Directory /var/www/html/prestashop/>
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/prestashop_error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/prestashop_access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Replace "example.com" with your own domain name or IP address.
Save and close the file.
Enable the new virtual host configuration:
sudo a2ensite prestashop.conf
Restart the Apache web server:
sudo systemctl restart apache2
Open your web browser and visit the domain name or IP address that you configured in the previous step.
You should see the PrestaShop installation page.
Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation.
When you're done, you'll be able to access the PrestaShop admin panel at http://example.com/administration.
Congratulations! You've successfully installed PrestaShop on Linux Mint Latest. You can now start customizing your online store and adding products.
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