How to Install S-Cart on Linux Mint Latest

S-Cart is an open-source e-commerce platform developed with PHP and MySQL. It is a powerful and customizable e-commerce solution that can be installed on various operating systems, including Linux Mint.

In this tutorial, we will discuss how to install S-Cart on Linux Mint Latest.

Prerequisites

Before installing S-Cart, ensure that you have the following prerequisites:

A running Linux Mint machine with root access.
A web server (Apache or Nginx) with PHP installed.
MySQL or MariaDB database server
Git client installed

Step 1: Install Required Packages

First, update the package information and install the required packages using the following commands:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install git unzip
sudo apt install apache2 mariadb-server
sudo apt install php libapache2-mod-php php-mysql php-curl php-gd php-intl php-json php-mbstring php-xml php-zip

Step 2: Create a Database

After installing the required packages, the next step is to create a database for the S-Cart installation. Follow the below instructions:

sudo mysql -u root -p

Create a new database using the below command. Replace dbname with your preferred name.

CREATE DATABASE dbname;

Next, create a new user and grant all the privileges to the user using the following commands. Replace username and password with your preferred values.

CREATE USER 'username'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON dbname.* TO 'username'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION;
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
exit;

Step 3: Install S-Cart

Now that you have installed the necessary prerequisites, created a database, and granted the database user access, you can proceed to install S-Cart.

Clone the S-Cart repository from GitHub using the git clone command:

git clone https://github.com/s-cart/s-cart.git
cd s-cart

Set the appropriate permissions for Apache to access the S-Cart directory using the following command.

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/s-cart/

Import the S-Cart database schema into our database using the following command. Replace username, password, and dbname with your preferred values.

mysql -u username -p dbname < database/shops.sql

Make a copy of the example config file and then edit the copied file to match your database's connection details.

cp app/Config/db.php.example app/Config/db.php

Edit the database connection details in the app/Config/db.php file.

<?php
return array(
  'host' => 'localhost',
  'port' => '3306',
  'database' => 'dbname',
  'username' => 'username',
  'password' => 'password',
  'prefix' => 'sc_',
);

Step 4: Configure Apache

Once we have installed S-Cart, we need to configure Apache to access it.

Create an Apache virtual host configuration file for S-Cart using the following command:

sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/s-cart.conf

Add the following content to the file, save and close the file.

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
  ServerName localhost
  DocumentRoot /var/www/html/s-cart
  ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
  CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
  <Directory /var/www/html/s-cart/>
      Options FollowSymLinks
      AllowOverride All
      Require all granted
  </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Enable the virtual host configuration using the following command.

sudo a2ensite s-cart.conf

To enable the Apache rewrite module, run the following command.

sudo a2enmod rewrite

Finally, restart the Apache service to apply the changes.

sudo service apache2 restart

Step 5: Access S-Cart

Once you have completed all these steps, you can go ahead and access S-Cart by opening a web browser and navigating to http://localhost.

Conclusion

You have successfully installed S-Cart on Linux Mint Latest. Now you can start using S-Cart to set up your e-commerce store.