Tutorial: Installing Drupal Commerce on OpenBSD

Drupal Commerce is a popular eCommerce platform that can be installed on OpenBSD operating system. In this tutorial, we will guide you step-by-step on how to install Drupal Commerce on OpenBSD.

Before getting started, make sure that you have the following prerequisites installed:

• OpenBSD operating system
• Apache web server and PHP installed
• Latest version of MySQL database

Step 1: Download Drupal Commerce

You can download the latest version of Drupal Commerce from their official website https://drupalcommerce.org/download

Step 2: Install Drupal Commerce

• Extract the downloaded file and move it to the web server's document root directory. For example: /var/www/htdocs
• Give appropriate permissions to the directory and its contents.
• Create a database in MySQL using the following command:

mysql -u root -p

CREATE DATABASE drupalcommerce;

CREATE USER 'drupaluser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON drupalcommerce.* TO 'drupaluser'@'localhost';

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

• Navigate to the Drupal Commerce directory and rename the sites/default/default.settings.php file to sites/default/settings.php
• Open the sites/default/settings.php file in a text editor and add the following lines at the end:

$databases['default']['default'] = array(
  'database' => 'drupalcommerce',
  'username' => 'drupaluser',
  'password' => 'password',
  'host' => 'localhost',
  'port' => '',
  'driver' => 'mysql',
  'prefix' => '',
);

• Save the file and exit the text editor.

Step 3: Run the Drupal Commerce installer

• Open a web browser and navigate to the URL where you placed Drupal Commerce. For example: http://localhost/drupalcommerce
• Follow the instructions provided by the installer to complete the setup process.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Drupal Commerce on OpenBSD. You can now use this platform to create a powerful eCommerce website.

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