Installing PrestaShop on OpenBSD

PrestaShop is a popular e-commerce platform that allows you to create a fully functional online store. In this tutorial, we will guide you on how to install PrestaShop on OpenBSD.

Prerequisites

Before we begin with the installation, please ensure that you have the following prerequisites:

• A server running OpenBSD
• Apache or Nginx web server
• PHP version 7.1 or later
• MySQL or MariaDB database

Step 1: Download PrestaShop

To download the latest version of PrestaShop, you can visit their official website and download the desired version. Once downloaded, extract the contents of the downloaded archive.

cd /tmp
wget https://www.prestashop.com/download/old/prestashop_1.7.7.0.zip   # Replace with the latest version available
unzip prestashop_1.7.7.0.zip -d /var/www/htdocs/prestashop
cd /var/www/htdocs/prestashop

Step 2: Configure the Web Server

To configure the web server to serve PrestaShop, you need to create a virtual host file in the web server configuration directories. Here we will use the Nginx web server to run PrestaShop.

Create prestashop.conf file in /etc/nginx/conf.d/ directory with the following content:

server {
    listen       80;
    server_name  domain.com; # Change to your domain name

    root   /var/www/htdocs/prestashop;
    index  index.php index.html index.htm;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
    }

    location ~* \.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|css|js|ico|xml)$ {
        access_log        off;
        expires           360d;
    }

    location ~* \.(pdf)$ {
        access_log        off;
        expires           7d;
    }

    location ~ /\. {
        access_log        off;
        deny              all;
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
        fastcgi_pass   unix:/run/php-fpm.sock; # Change the socket path according to your setup
        fastcgi_index  index.php;
        fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        include        fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_param  PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;
    }

    location = /favicon.ico {
        log_not_found off;
        access_log off;
    }

    location = /robots.txt {
        allow all;
        log_not_found off;
        access_log off;
    }

    location ~ /\.ht {
        deny            all;
        access_log      off;
        log_not_found   off;
    }
}

Step 3: Configure PHP

PrestaShop requires the following PHP extensions:

• curl
• gd
• intl
• mbstring
• pdo_mysql
• zip

To install them, run the following command:

pkg_add php-curl php-gd php-intl php-mbstring php-pdo_mysql php-zip

Once installed, edit the PHP configuration file /etc/php-7.4.ini and ensure that the following PHP settings match the values mentioned below:

max_execution_time = 300
memory_limit = 512M
upload_max_filesize = 16M
post_max_size = 16M

Step 4: Create a MySQL Database

Create a new MySQL database and user for PrestaShop.

mysql -u root -p

CREATE DATABASE prestashop;
CREATE USER 'prestashopuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON prestashop.* TO 'prestashopuser'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
exit

Step 5: Install PrestaShop

Now that you have configured the webserver, PHP and have created a MySQL database, you can proceed with the installation of PrestaShop.

Open up the web browser and navigate to http://domain.com (replace "domain.com" with your domain name) and follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed PrestaShop on your OpenBSD server. You can now start creating your online store.

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