Shopware is an open source eCommerce platform for online businesses. Shopware's source code is hosted on Github. This guide will show you how to install Shopware Community Edition (CE) on a fresh Debian 9 Vultr server instance.
mod_rewrite enabled, this guide will use NginxCheck the Debian version.
lsb_release -ds
# Debian GNU/Linux 9.4 (stretch)
Ensure that your system is up to date.
apt update && apt upgrade -y
Install necessary packages.
apt install -y sudo unzip wget curl vim
Create a new non-root user account with sudo access and switch to it.
adduser johndoe --gecos "John Doe"
usermod -aG sudo johndoe
su - johndoe
NOTE: Replace johndoe with your username.
Set up the timezone.
sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
Install PHP 7.0 and required PHP extensions.
sudo apt install -y php7.0 php7.0-cli php7.0-fpm php7.0-common php7.0-mysql php7.0-curl php7.0-json php7.0-zip php7.0-gd php7.0-xml php7.0-mbstring php7.0-opcache
Check the version.
php --version
# PHP 7.0.27-0+deb9u1 (cli) (built: Jan 5 2018 13:51:52) ( NTS )
# Copyright (c) 1997-2017 The PHP Group
# Zend Engine v3.0.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2017 Zend Technologies
# with Zend OPcache v7.0.27-0+deb9u1, Copyright (c) 1999-2017, by Zend Technologies
Download IonCube Loader.
cd /tmp && wget https://downloads.ioncube.com/loader_downloads/ioncube_loaders_lin_x86-64.tar.gz
Extract it.
tar xfz ioncube_loaders_lin_*.gz
Find the PHP extensions directory on the system by running the commands below.
php -i | grep extension_dir
# extension_dir => /usr/lib/php/20151012 => /usr/lib/php/20151012
Copy the ionCube Loader into the PHP extensions directory.
sudo cp /tmp/ioncube/ioncube_loader_lin_7.0.so /usr/lib/php/20151012
Include the loader via the PHP configuration.
sudo vim /etc/php/7.0/fpm/php.ini
Then add a line in the file to include ionCube loader. It can be anywhere in the file below the [PHP] line.
zend_extension = /usr/lib/php/20151012/ioncube_loader_lin_7.0.so
Save the file and restart php-fpm.
sudo systemctl restart php7.0-fpm.service
Install MariaDB.
sudo apt install -y mariadb-server
Check the version.
mysql --version && sudo mysqld --version
# mysql Ver 15.1 Distrib 10.1.26-MariaDB, for debian-linux-gnu (x86_64) using readline 5.2
# mysqld Ver 10.1.26-MariaDB-0+deb9u1 for debian-linux-gnu on x86_64 (Debian 9.1)
Run mysql_secure installation to improve MariaDB security and set the password for the MariaDB root user.
sudo mysql_secure_installation
Connect to MariaDB shell as the root user.
sudo mysql -u root -p
# Enter password
Create an empty MariaDB database and user for Shopware, and remember the credentials.
CREATE DATABASE dbname;
GRANT ALL ON dbname.* TO 'username' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;
Install Nginx.
sudo apt install -y nginx
Check the version.
sudo nginx -v
# nginx version: nginx/1.10.3
Run sudo vim /etc/nginx/sites-available/shopware.conf and configure Nginx for Shopware.
server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
server_name example.com; # Check this
root /var/www/shopware; # Check this
index shopware.php index.php;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /shopware.php$is_args$args;
}
location /recovery/install {
index index.php;
try_files $uri /recovery/install/index.php$is_args$args;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock; # Check this
}
}
Save the file and exit.
Activate the new shopware.conf configuration by linking the file to the sites-enabled directory.
sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/shopware.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
Test the configuration.
sudo nginx -t
Reload Nginx.
sudo systemctl reload nginx.service
Create a document root directory.
sudo mkdir -p /var/www/shopware
Change ownership of the /var/www/shopware directory to johndoe.
sudo chown -R johndoe:johndoe /var/www/shopware
Download the latest release of Shopware.
cd /var/www/shopware
wget http://releases.s3.shopware.com.s3.amazonaws.com/install_5.4.5_6847c0845f0f97230aa05c7294fa726a96dda3ff.zip?_ga=2.133696968.774684214.1529926951-1771999509.1528830594 -O shopware.zip
unzip shopware.zip
rm shopware.zip
NOTE: Update the download URL if there is a newer release.
Change ownership of the /var/www/shopware directory to www-data.
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/shopware
Increase memory_limit = 256M and upload_max_filesize = 6M, and set allow_url_fopen = On if not already set in /etc/php/7.0/fpm/php.ini.
sudo vim /etc/php/7.0/fpm/php.ini
After making changes in /etc/php/7.0/fpm/php.ini, reload php7.0-fpm.service
sudo systemctl reload php7.0-fpm.service
Open your domain/IP in a web browser and follow the installation wizard. The backend of Shopware is located at /backend: http://example.com/backend.
You have successfully installed Shopware. Enjoy your new online shop.