WooCommerce is a popular e-commerce plugin for WordPress. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install WooCommerce on NetBSD operating system.
Before proceeding with the installation of WooCommerce, ensure that you have the following prerequisites:
WooCommerce requires PHP 7.2 or greater and some PHP extensions. We will install PHP and its extensions using the pkgin package manager.
First, update the package index and upgrade any existing packages:
sudo pkgin update && sudo pkgin upgrade
Next, install PHP and its extensions:
sudo pkgin install php73 php73-curl php73-gd php73-mbstring php73-mysql php73-opcache php73-session php73-xml
After installing PHP and its necessary extensions, you will need to restart the webserver for the changes to take effect:
sudo /etc/rc.d/httpd restart
To download and install WooCommerce, follow the steps below:
Download the latest version of WooCommerce from their official website:
wget https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/woocommerce.zip
Unzip the package:
unzip woocommerce.zip -d /var/www/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/
Provide the correct ownership and permissions to the WooCommerce files and directories:
sudo chown -Rv user:user /var/www/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/woocommerce
sudo chmod -Rv 755 /var/www/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/woocommerce
Activate the WooCommerce plugin from the WordPress admin panel.
That's it! You have successfully installed WooCommerce on your NetBSD server. You can now start adding products to your WooCommerce store and configure the plugin according to your needs.
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