How to Install Sylius on Fedora CoreOS Latest

Introduction

Sylius is an eCommerce platform based on the Symfony framework that allows developers to create online stores and marketplaces. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to install Sylius on Fedora CoreOS Latest distribution.

Prerequisites

Before you proceed with the installation, make sure that you have the following prerequisites:

Fedora CoreOS Latest installed on your system.
A user account with sudo privileges.

Steps

1. Install Required Packages

First, you need to install the required packages for Sylius. Open the terminal and run the following command:

sudo dnf install git unzip curl wget openssl php php-pdo php-mbstring php-curl php-xml php-zip php-intl php-json php-gd php-opcache php-tokenizer php-fileinfo php-pgsql postgresql-server postgresql-contrib

This command will install all the necessary dependencies for Sylius to run.

2. Install and Configure PostgreSQL

Sylius requires a PostgreSQL database to store data. Install PostgreSQL by running the following command:

sudo systemctl enable postgresql
sudo systemctl start postgresql
sudo -i -u postgres
psql

Create a new database and user for Sylius by executing the following commands:

CREATE DATABASE sylius;
CREATE USER sylius PASSWORD 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE sylius TO sylius;
\q
exit

3. Install Sylius

Clone the latest Sylius version from Github using the following command:

git clone https://github.com/Sylius/Sylius.git

Once the cloning process is complete, change the directory to the Sylius folder by executing the following command:

cd Sylius

Install Sylius dependencies by running the following command:

composer install

4. Configure Sylius

Copy the .env.dist file to .env:

cp .env.dist .env

Open the .env file and modify the variables:

SYLIUS_DATABASE_DRIVER=pgsql
SYLIUS_DATABASE_HOST=localhost
SYLIUS_DATABASE_PORT=5432
SYLIUS_DATABASE_NAME=sylius
SYLIUS_DATABASE_USER=sylius
SYLIUS_DATABASE_PASSWORD=password

5. Start Sylius

You can start Sylius with the following command:

bin/console server:start

This will start Sylius on the default port 8000.

You can access Sylius by opening a web browser and navigating to http://localhost:8000/.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install Sylius on Fedora CoreOS Latest distribution. Sylius is now ready for development and customization.

Enjoy using Sylius!