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How to Install Sylius eCommerce Platform on Fedora 30

Last Updated: Wed, Dec 2, 2020
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Sylius is a modern e-commerce platform for PHP, based on the Symfony Framework. Sylius source code is hosted on GitHub.

This guide will walk you through the Sylius installation process on a fresh Fedora 30 Vultr instance using PHP, MariaDB as a database, and Nginx as a web server.

Requirements

To be able to install Sylius you will need:

  • Vultr server instance with at least 2048 MB of memory.

  • Nginx or Apache. In this guide, we use Nginx.

  • PHP version 7.2 or greater with some specific PHP extensions: gd, exif, fileinfo, intl

  • PHP configuration settings: memory_limit equal to or greater than 1024M, date.timezone

  • MySQL version 5.7 or 8.0 or MariaDB equivalent

  • Composer

  • Node.js

  • Yarn

Before you begin

Check the Fedora version.

cat /etc/fedora-release

# Fedora release 30 (Thirty)

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 update

Install the needed packages.

sudo dnf install -y socat git wget unzip

Disable SELinux and Firewall.

sudo setenforce 0 ; sudo systemctl stop firewalld ; sudo systemctl disable firewalld

Install PHP

Install PHP and required PHP extensions.

sudo dnf install -y php-cli php-fpm php-common php-mysqlnd php-gd php-intl php-zip php-curl php-xml php-mbstring php-json

Check the version.

php --version

# PHP 7.3.8 (cli) (built: Jul 30 2019 09:26:16) ( NTS )

Start and enable PHP-FPM.

sudo systemctl start php-fpm.service

sudo systemctl enable php-fpm.service

Run sudo vim /etc/php.ini and set memory_limit to 1024M or more, and set up date.timezone.

memory_limit = 1024M

date.timezone = Region/City

Restart PHP-FPM.

sudo systemctl restart php-fpm.service

Install MariaDB and create a database

Install MariaDB.

sudo dnf install -y mariadb-server

Check the version.

mysql --version

# mysql  Ver 15.1 Distrib 10.3.17-MariaDB, for Linux (x86_64) using readline 5.1

Start and enable MariaDB.

sudo systemctl start mariadb.service

sudo systemctl enable mariadb.service

Run mysql_secure installation script to improve MariaDB security and set the password for 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 Sylius, and remember the credentials.

CREATE DATABASE dbname;

GRANT ALL ON dbname.* TO 'username' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

exit

NOTE: Replace dbname and username with appropriate names for your setup. Replace password with a strong password.

Install Nginx

Install Nginx.

sudo dnf install -y nginx

Check the version.

nginx -v

# nginx version: nginx/1.16.0

Start and enable Nginx.

sudo systemctl start nginx.service

sudo systemctl enable nginx.service

Configure Nginx for Sylius. Run sudo vim /etc/nginx/conf.d/sylius.conf and populate the file with the following configuration.

server {

  listen 80;

  server_name example.com;

  root /var/www/sylius/public;

  location / {

    try_files $uri /index.php$is_args$args;

  }

  location ~ ^/index\.php(/|$) {

    fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php-fpm/www.sock;

    fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.*)$;

    include fastcgi_params;

    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $realpath_root$fastcgi_script_name;

    fastcgi_param DOCUMENT_ROOT $realpath_root;

    internal;

  }

  location ~ \.php$ {

    return 404;

  }

  client_max_body_size 6m;

}

Save the file and exit with :+W+Q.

Test the configuration.

sudo nginx -t

Reload Nginx.

sudo systemctl reload nginx.service

Install Composer

Install Composer globally.

php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"

php -r "if (hash_file('sha384', 'composer-setup.php') === 'a5c698ffe4b8e849a443b120cd5ba38043260d5c4023dbf93e1558871f1f07f58274fc6f4c93bcfd858c6bd0775cd8d1') { echo 'Installer verified'; } else { echo 'Installer corrupt'; unlink('composer-setup.php'); } echo PHP_EOL;"

php composer-setup.php

php -r "unlink('composer-setup.php');"

sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

Check the version.

composer --version

# Composer version 1.9.0 2019-08-02 20:55:32

Install Node.js

Install Node.js.

sudo dnf install -y nodejs

Check the version.

node --version

# v10.16.0

Install Yarn

Install the Yarn package manager.

curl --silent --location https://dl.yarnpkg.com/rpm/yarn.repo | sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/yarn.repo

sudo dnf install -y yarn

Check the version.

yarn --version

# 1.17.3

Install Sylius

Create a document root directory.

sudo mkdir -p /var/www/sylius

Change ownership of the /var/www/sylius directory to johndoe.

sudo chown -R johndoe:johndoe /var/www/sylius

Navigate to the document root folder.

cd /var/www/sylius

Initiate a new Sylius project by running this command:

composer create-project sylius/sylius-standard .

Run vim .env.local to enter database details and to run Sylius in an environment of choice.

APP_ENV=prod

DATABASE_URL=mysql://username:password@127.0.0.1/dbname

NOTE: Replace username, password and dbname with your database details.

After everything is in place, run the following command to install Sylius:

php bin/console sylius:install -e prod 

In order to see a fully functional frontend, you will need to install its assets. Sylius uses Gulp to build frontend assets using Yarn as a JavaScript package manager. Having Yarn installed, go to your project directory to install the dependencies.

yarn install

Then build the frontend assets by running:

yarn build

Change ownership of the /var/www/sylius directory to nginx.

sudo chown -R nginx:nginx /var/www/sylius

Run sudo vim /etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf and set the user and group to nginx. Initially, they will be set to apache.

sudo vi /etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf

# user = nginx

# group = nginx

Create /var/lib/php/session/ directory and change ownership to nginx.

sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/php/session && sudo chown -R nginx:nginx /var/lib/php/session

Restart the PHP-FPM service.

sudo systemctl restart php-fpm.service

The Sylius e-commerce platform is installed. By default, administration panel routes to /admin.

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