Shopware is the next generation of open source e-commerce software made in Germany. Based on bleeding edge technologies like Symfony 2, Doctrine 2 and Zend Framework Shopware comes as the perfect platform for your next e-commerce project. Furthermore Shopware provides an event-driven plugin system and an advanced hook system, giving you the ability to customize every part of the platform.
This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo’ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you through the step by step installation Shopware on a Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) server.
Install Shopware on Ubuntu 16.04
Step 1. First make sure that all your system packages are up-to-date by running these following apt-get commands in the terminal.
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade
Step 2. Install LAMP (Linux, Apache, MariaDB, PHP) server.
A Ubuntu 16.04 LAMP server is required. If you do not have LAMP installed, you can follow our guide here. Also install all required PHP modules:
apt-get install php5 php5-mysql php5-gd php5-curl libssh2-php
Step 3. Installing Shopware.
First thing to do is to go to Shopware’s download page and download the latest stable version of Shopware, At the moment of writing this article it is version 5:
wget https://github.com/shopware/shopware/archive/v5.1.6.zip unzip v5.1.6.zip -d /var/www/html cd /var/www/html/shopware-5.1.6 cp -a * ..
We will need to change some folders permissions:
chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/
Step 4. Configuring MariaDB for Shopware.
By default, MariaDB is not hardened. You can secure MariaDB using the mysql_secure_installation script. You should read and below each steps carefully which will set root password, remove anonymous users, disallow remote root login, and remove the test database and access to secure MariaDB.
mysql_secure_installation
Configure it like this:
- Set root password? [Y/n] y - 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
Next we will need to log in to the MariaDB console and create a database for the Shopware. Run the following command:
mysql -u root -p
This will prompt you for a password, so enter your MariaDB root password and hit Enter. Once you are logged in to your database server you need to create a database for Shopware installation:
CREATE DATABASE shopware; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON shopware.* TO 'shopware'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'strong_password'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES; \q
Step 5. Configuring Apache web server for Shopware.
Create a new virtual host directive in Apache. For example, create a new Apache configuration file named ‘shopware.conf’ on your virtual server:
sudo a2enmod rewrite touch /etc/apache2/sites-available/shopware.conf ln -s /etc/apache2/sites-available/shopware.conf /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/shopware.conf nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/shopware.conf
Add the following lines:
<VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin [email protected] DocumentRoot "/var/www/html/" ServerName your-domain.com ServerAlias www.your-domain.com <Directory "/var/www/html/"> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride All Order allow,deny allow from all </Directory> ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/your-domain.com-error_log CustomLog /var/log/apache2/your-domain.com-access_log common </VirtualHost>
Now, we can restart Apache web server so that the changes take place:
systemctl restart apache2.service
Step 6. Accessing Shopware.
Shopware will be available on HTTP port 80 by default. Open your favorite browser and navigate to http://yourdomain.com or http://server-ip and complete the required the steps to finish the installation. If you are using a firewall, please open port 80 to enable access to the control panel.
Congratulation’s! You have successfully installed Shopware. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing Shopware open source e-commerce on your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you to check the official Shopware web site.