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 FreeBSD 11 Vultr server instance.
Minimum requirements of Shopware are:
ctype curldomhashiconvgdjsonmbstringopensslsessionsimplexmlxmlzipzlibpdo/mysqlmod_rewrite enabled. This guide will use Nginx.Check the FreeBSD version.
uname -ro
# FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE
Ensure that your FreeBSD system is up to date.
freebsd-update fetch install
pkg update && pkg upgrade -y
Install sudo, vim, unzip, wget and bash packages if they are not present on your system.
pkg install -y sudo vim unzip wget bash
Create a new user account with your preferred username (we will use johndoe).
adduser
# Username: johndoe
# Full name: John Doe
# Uid (Leave empty for default): <Enter>
# Login group [johndoe]: <Enter>
# Login group is johndoe. Invite johndoe into other groups? []: wheel
# Login class [default]: <Enter>
# Shell (sh csh tcsh nologin) [sh]: bash
# Home directory [/home/johndoe]: <Enter>
# Home directory permissions (Leave empty for default): <Enter>
# Use password-based authentication? [yes]: <Enter>
# Use an empty password? (yes/no) [no]: <Enter>
# Use a random password? (yes/no) [no]: <Enter>
# Enter password: your_secure_password
# Enter password again: your_secure_password
# Lock out the account after creation? [no]: <Enter>
# OK? (yes/no): yes
# Add another user? (yes/no): no
# Goodbye!
Run the visudo command and uncomment the %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL line, to allow members of the wheel group to execute any command.
# Uncomment by removing the hash (#) sign
%wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL
Now, switch to your newly created user with su command.
su - johndoe
NOTE: Replace johndoe with your username.
Set up the timezone.
sudo tzsetup
Install PHP, as well as the necessary PHP extensions.
sudo pkg install -y php72 php72-ctype php72-curl php72-dom php72-hash php72-iconv php72-gd php72-json php72-mbstring php72-openssl php72-session php72-simplexml php72-xml php72-zip php72-zlib php72-pdo php72-pdo_mysql php72-filter php72-ftp php72-tokenizer php72-calendar php72-pecl-APCu php72-opcache
Check the version.
php --version
# PHP 7.2.10 (cli) (built: Oct 2 2018 01:30:18) ( NTS )
# Copyright (c) 1997-2018 The PHP Group
# Zend Engine v3.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2018 Zend Technologies
# with Zend OPcache v7.2.10, Copyright (c) 1999-2018, by Zend Technologies
Soft-link php.ini-production to php.ini.
sudo ln -s /usr/local/etc/php.ini-production /usr/local/etc/php.ini
Enable and start PHP-FPM.
sudo sysrc php_fpm_enable=yes
sudo service php-fpm start
Download IonCube Loader.
cd /tmp && wget https://downloads.ioncube.com/loader_downloads/ioncube_loaders_fre_11_x86-64.tar.gz
Extract the loader.
tar xfz ioncube_loaders_fre_*.tar.gz
Find the PHP extensions directory on the system by running the commands below.
php -i | grep extension_dir
# extension_dir => /usr/local/lib/php/20170718 => /usr/local/lib/php/20170718
Copy the IonCube Loader into the PHP extensions directory.
sudo cp /tmp/ioncube/ioncube_loader_fre_7.2.so /usr/local/lib/php/20170718
Open the PHP configuration file.
sudo vim /usr/local/etc/php.ini
Then, add a line to the file to include the loader. It can be anywhere in the file below the [PHP] line.
zend_extension = /usr/local/lib/php/20170718/ioncube_loader_fre_7.2.so
Save the file and restart PHP-FPM.
sudo service php-fpm restart
Download and install MariaDB.
sudo pkg install -y mariadb102-client mariadb102-server
Check the version.
mysql --version
# mysql Ver 15.1 Distrib 10.2.17-MariaDB, for FreeBSD11.2 (amd64) using readline 5.1
Enable and start MariaDB.
sudo sysrc mysql_enable="yes"
sudo service mysql-server start
Run the mysql_secure_installation script to improve the security of your installation.
sudo mysql_secure_installation
Log in to MariaDB as the root user.
sudo mysql -u root -p
# Enter password:
Create a new database and user, and remember the credentials.
CREATE DATABASE dbname;
GRANT ALL ON dbname.* TO 'username' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Exit MariaDB.
exit
Install Nginx.
sudo pkg install -y nginx
Check the version.
nginx -v
# nginx version: nginx/1.14.0
Enable and start Nginx.
sudo sysrc nginx_enable=yes
sudo service nginx start
Run sudo vim /usr/local/etc/nginx/shopware.conf and configure Nginx for Shopware.
server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
server_name example.com; # Check this
root /usr/local/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$args;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000; # Check this
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
}
Save the file and exit with :+W+Q.
Now we need to include shopware.conf in the main nginx.conf file.
Run sudo vim /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf and add the following line to the http {} block.
include shopware.conf;
Test the configuration.
sudo nginx -t
Reload Nginx.
sudo service nginx reload
Create a document root directory.
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/www/shopware
Change ownership of the /usr/local/www/shopware directory to johndoe.
sudo chown -R johndoe:johndoe /usr/local/www/shopware
Download the latest release of Shopware.
cd /usr/local/www/shopware
wget http://releases.s3.shopware.com.s3.amazonaws.com/install_5.5.1_4a48054b7c53187c807d6a6d82ec88ffb72b5e6a.zip?_ga=2.55824683.1277098894.1539887145-1483950935.1538544950 -O shopware.zip
unzip shopware.zip
rm shopware.zip
NOTE: Update the download link in the command above if there is a newer release.
Change ownership of the /usr/local/www/shopware directory to www.
sudo chown -R www:www /usr/local/www/shopware
Open the /usr/local/etc/php.ini file.
sudo vim /usr/local/etc/php.ini
Increase memory_limit = 256M and upload_max_filesize = 6M, and set allow_url_fopen = On if it is not already set.
After making changes in the /etc/php/7.2/fpm/php.ini file, reload php-fpm.service
sudo service php-fpm reload
Open your domain/IP in the web browser and follow the installation wizard. The backend of Shopware is located at /backend example: http://example.com/backend.
You have successfully installed Shopware.