This article explains steps one can take to install AbanteCart on Ubuntu Linux with Nginx support.
AbanteCart is a free and popular open-source eCommerce platform based on PHP. It has comprehensive product features ideal for small, medium and large businesses to create and manage their online stores online.
There are many free open-source eCommerce platforms that one can use to power his/her online stores. When you’re deciding which open-source platform you want to use, make sure to give AbanteCart a try, you may just likely go with it.
To get started with installing AbanteCart, follow the steps below:
How to install AbanteCart on Ubuntu Linux with Nginx support
As mentioned above, AbanteCart is a free and popular open-source eCommerce platform based on PHP. It has comprehensive product features ideal for small, medium and large businesses to create and manage their online stores online.
Below is how to install it on Ubuntu Linux with Nginx support.
Install Nginx HTTP Server on Ubuntu
Nginx HTTP Server represents the A in the LAMP stack. It’s the most popular web server in use. so install it, since AbanteCart needs it.
To install Nginx HTTP on Ubuntu server, run the commands below.
sudo apt update sudo apt install nginx
After installing Nginx, the commands below can be used to stop, start and enable Nginx service to always start up with the server boots.
sudo systemctl stop nginx.service sudo systemctl start nginx.service sudo systemctl enable nginx.service
To test Nginx setup, open your browser and browse to the server hostname or IP address and you should see Nginx default test page as shown below. When you see that, then Nginx is working as expected.
Install MariaDB
MariaDB database server is a great place to start when looking at open source database servers to use with AbanteCart. To install MariaDB run the commands below.
sudo apt-get install mariadb-server mariadb-client
After installing MariaDB, the commands below can be used to stop, start and enable MariaDB service to always start up when the server boots.
Run these on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
sudo systemctl stop mysql.service sudo systemctl start mysql.service sudo systemctl enable mysql.service
Run these on Ubuntu 17.10 and 18.04 LTS
sudo systemctl stop mariadb.service sudo systemctl start mariadb.service sudo systemctl enable mariadb.service
After that, run the commands below to secure MariaDB server by creating a root password and disallowing remote root access.
sudo mysql_secure_installation
When prompted, answer the questions below by following the guide.
- Enter current password for root (enter for none): Just press the Enter
- Set root password? [Y/n]: Y
- New password: Enter password
- Re-enter new password: Repeat password
- Remove anonymous users? [Y/n]: Y
- Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n]: Y
- Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n]: Y
- Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n]: Y
To test if MariaDB is installed, type the commands below to logon to MariaDB server
sudo mysql -u root -p
Then type the password you created above to sign on. if successful, you should see MariaDB welcome message
Install PHP 7.FPM and Related Modules
PHP 7.1 may not be available on Ubuntu default repositories. in order to install it, you will have to get it from third-party repositories.
Run the commands below to add the below third party repository to upgrade to PHP 7.1-FPM
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
Then update and upgrade to PHP 7.2-FPM
sudo apt update
Next, run the commands below to install PHP 7.2 and related modules.
sudo apt install php7.2-fpm php7.2-common php7.2-mbstring php7.2-xmlrpc php7.2-soap php7.2-gd php7.2-xml php7.2-intl php7.2-mysql php7.2-cli php7.2-zip
After installing PHP 7.1, run the commands below to open PHP default config file for Nginx.
sudo nano /etc/php/7.2/fpm/php.ini
Then make the changes on the following lines below in the file and save. The value below are great settings to apply in your environments.
file_uploads = On allow_url_fopen = On memory_limit = 256M upload_max_filesize = 100M max_execution_time = 360 cgi.fix_pathinfo = 0 date.timezone = America/Chicago
After making the change above, save the file and close out.
After installing PHP and related modules, all you have to do is restart Nginx to reload PHP configurations.
To restart Nginx, run the commands below
sudo systemctl restart nginx.service
Create AbanteCart Database
Now that you’ve install all the packages that are required, continue below to start configuring the servers.
First run the commands below to create a blank AbanteCart database.
To logon to MariaDB database server, run the commands below
sudo mysql -u root -p
Then create a database called abantecart
CREATE DATABASE abantecart;
Create a database user called abantecartuser with new password
CREATE USER 'abantecartuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'new_password_here';
Then grant the user full access to the database.
GRANT ALL ON abantecart.* TO 'abantecartuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'user_password_here' WITH GRANT OPTION;
Finally, save your changes and exit
FLUSH PRIVILEGES; EXIT;
Download AbanteCart Latest Release
Next, visit AbanteCart site and download the latest version.
After downloading, run the commands below to extract the download file into Nginx root directory.
cd /tmp && wget unzip master.zip sudo mv abantecart-src-master/public_html /var/www/html/abantecart
Then run the commands below to set the correct permissions for Concrete5 to function.
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/abantecart/ sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/abantecart/
Configure Nginx
Finally, configure Nginx site configuration file for AbanteCart. This file will control how users access AbanteCart content.
Run the commands below to create a new configuration file called abantecart
sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/abantecart
Then copy and paste the content below into the file and save it. Replace the highlighted line with your own domain name and directory root location.
server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
root /var/www/html/abantecart;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
server_name example.com www.example.com;
client_max_body_size 100M;
autoindex off;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ $uri.php @abantecart_rules;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
location @abantecart_rules {
rewrite ^(.*)\?*$ /index.php?_route_=$1 last;
}
}
Save the file and exit.
Enable the AbanteCart
After configuring the VirtualHost above, enable it by running the commands below
sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/abantecart /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
To load all the settings above, restart Nginx by running the commands below.
sudo systemctl restart nginx.service
Install Let’s Encrypt Client
To get Let’s Encrypt free SSL/TLS certificates on your Ubuntu machine, you should first install its client. The client helps automate the process for you. To install it, run the commands below.
sudo apt-get install python-certbot-nginx
If python-certbot-nginx isn’t already installed, you may have to add its PPA repository and install the package.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:certbot/certbot sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install python-certbot-nginx
Obtaining your free SSL/TLS Certificates
After installing Let’s Encrypt Certbot client module for Nginx, run the commands below to obtain your free Let’s Encrypt SSL/TLS certificate the domain specified. make sure to replace example.com with your own domain.
sudo certbot --nginx -m [email protected] -d example.com -d www.example.com
After running the above commands, you should get prompted to accept the licensing terms. If everything is checked, the client should automatically install the free SSL/TLS certificate and configure the Nginx site to use the certs.
Please read the Terms of Service at
You must
agree in order to register with the ACME server at
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(A)gree/(C)ancel: A
Choose Yes ( Y ) to share your email address
Would you be willing to share your email address with the Electronic Frontier
Foundation, a founding partner of the Let's Encrypt project and the non-profit
organization that develops Certbot? We'd like to send you email about EFF and
our work to encrypt the web, protect its users and defend digital rights.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(Y)es/(N)o: Y
This is how easy is it to obtain your free SSL/TLS certificate for your Nginx powered website.
Please choose whether or not to redirect HTTP traffic to HTTPS, removing HTTP access. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1: No redirect - Make no further changes to the webserver configuration. 2: Redirect - Make all requests redirect to secure HTTPS access. Choose this for new sites, or if you're confident your site works on HTTPS. You can undo this change by editing your web server's configuration. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Select the appropriate number [1-2] then [enter] (press 'c' to cancel): 2
Pick option 2 to redirect all traffic over HTTPS. This is important!
After that, the SSL client should install the cert and configure your website to redirect all traffic over HTTPS.
Congratulations! You have successfully enabled and You should test your configuration at: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=example.com https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.example.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT NOTES: - Congratulations! Your certificate and chain have been saved at: /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/fullchain.pem Your key file has been saved at: /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/privkey.pem Your cert will expire on 2018-02-24. To obtain a new or tweaked version of this certificate in the future, simply run certbot again with the "certonly" option. To non-interactively renew *all* of your certificates, run "certbot renew" - If you like Certbot, please consider supporting our work by: Donating to ISRG / Let's Encrypt: Donating to EFF:
The highlighted code block should be added to your Nginx AbanteCart configuration file automatically by Let’s Encrypt certbot. Your AbanteCart site is ready to be used over HTTPS.
server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
root /var/www/html/abantecart;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
server_name example.com www.example.com;
client_max_body_size 100M;
autoindex off;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ $uri.php @abantecart_rules;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
location @abantecart_rules {
rewrite ^(.*)\?*$ /index.php?_route_=$1 last;
}
listen 443 ssl; # managed by Certbot
ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/fullchain.pem; # managed by Certbot
ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/privkey.pem; # managed by Certbot
include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-nginx.conf; # managed by Certbot
ssl_dhparam /etc/letsencrypt/ssl-dhparams.pem; # managed by Certbot
if ($scheme != "https") {
return 301
} # managed by Certbot
# Redirect non-https traffic to https
# if ($scheme != "https") {
# return 301
# } # managed by Certbot
}
You’ll have to manually renew the certificates. You’ll get email reminder to reset when the certificates are about to expire. To test the renewal process run the commands below.
sudo certbot renew --dry-run
To setup a process to automatically renew the certificates, add a cron job to execute the renewal process.
sudo crontab -e
Then add the line below and save.
0 1 * * * /usr/bin/certbot renew & > /dev/null
The cron job will attempt to renew 30 days before expiring
Next, open your browser and browse to the server domain name followed by install. You should see AbanteCart setup wizard to complete. Please follow the wizard carefully.
Validate all PHP settings are good and click Continue.
Then type in the database connection you created above, and the admin account to manage the store. when you’re done, continue with the installation.
After a brief moment, the installation should complete. logon to the backed as the administrator or go to the site. You should also run the commands below to delete the installation folder to complete the installation.
sudo rm -rf /var/www/html/abantecart/install
Enjoy!
