Shopware is an open source eCommerce platform for online businesses. Shopware source code is hosted on Github. This guide will show you how to install Shopware Community Edition (CE) on a fresh Fedora 28 Vultr server instance.
mod_rewrite
enabled, this guide will use NginxCheck the Fedora version.
cat /etc/fedora-release
# Fedora release 28 (Twenty Eight)
Create a new non-root user account with sudo
access and switch to it.
useradd -c "John Doe" johndoe && passwd johndoe
usermod -aG wheel johndoe
su - johndoe
NOTE: Replace johndoe
with your username.
Set up the timezone.
timedatectl list-timezones
sudo timedatectl set-timezone 'Region/City'
Ensure that your system is up to date.
sudo dnf check-upgrade || sudo dnf upgrade -y
Install unzip
, vim
, wget
and curl
.
sudo dnf install -y unzip vim wget curl
For simplicity, disable SELinux and Firewall.
sudo setenforce 0
sudo systemctl stop firewalld
sudo systemctl disable firewalld
Install PHP and required PHP extensions.
sudo dnf install -y php-cli php-fpm php-common php-mysqlnd php-curl php-json php-zip php-gd php-xml php-mbstring php-opcache
Check the PHP version.
php --version
# PHP 7.2.6 (cli) (built: May 22 2018 16:22:08) ( NTS )
Start and enable php-fpm.service
.
sudo systemctl start php-fpm.service
sudo systemctl enable php-fpm.service
Download IonCube loader.
cd /tmp && wget https://downloads.ioncube.com/loader_downloads/ioncube_loaders_lin_x86-64.tar.gz
Extract the loader.
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/lib64/php/modules => /usr/lib64/php/modules
Copy the ionCube Loader into the PHP extensions directory.
sudo cp /tmp/ioncube/ioncube_loader_lin_7.2.so /usr/lib64/php/modules
Include the loader via the PHP configuration.
sudo vim /etc/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/lib64/php/modules/ioncube_loader_lin_7.2.so
Save the file and restart php-fpm.service
.
sudo systemctl restart php-fpm.service
Install MariaDB.
sudo dnf install -y mariadb-server
Check the MariaDB version.
mysql --version
# mysql Ver 15.1 Distrib 10.2.15-MariaDB, for Linux (x86_64) using readline 5.1
Start and enable MariaDB.
sudo systemctl start mariadb.service
sudo systemctl enable mariadb.service
Run the mysql_secure_installation
script to improve the security of your MariaDB installation.
sudo mysql_secure_installation
Log in to MariaDB as the root user.
mysql -u root -p
# Enter password:
Create a new MariaDB database and user, and remember the credentials.
CREATE DATABASE dbname;
GRANT ALL ON dbname.* TO 'username' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT
Install Nginx.
sudo dnf install -y nginx
Check the Nginx version.
sudo nginx -v
# nginx version: nginx/1.12.1
Start and enable Nginx.
sudo systemctl start nginx.service
sudo systemctl enable nginx.service
Configure Nginx. Run sudo vim /etc/nginx/conf.d/shopware.conf
and populate the file with the following configuration.
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 fastcgi.conf;
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php-fpm/www.sock; # Check this
}
}
Test the Nginx 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 nginx
.
sudo chown -R nginx:nginx /var/www/shopware
Run sudo vim /etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf
and set the user and group to nginx
. Initially, it will be set to apache
.
sudo vim /etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf
# user = nginx
# group = nginx
Create the /var/lib/php/session
directory and change its ownership to user nginx
.
sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/php/session && sudo chown -R nginx:nginx /var/lib/php/session
Increase memory_limit = 256M
and upload_max_filesize = 6M
, and set allow_url_fopen = On
if it is not already set in /etc/php.ini
.
sudo vim /etc/php.ini
After making changes in /etc/php.ini
, restart php-fpm.service
sudo systemctl restart php-fpm.service
Open your domain/IP in the 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.
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