X-Cart is an extremely flexible open-source eCommerce platform with tons of features and integrations. This guide describes the process of installing X-Cart 5 on a Debian 10 (buster) Vultr instance, using Nginx as the web server and MariaDB as the database server.
PHP version 7.2 or higher
PHP extensions: pdo, phar, mysql, mbstring, curl
MySQL version 5.7.7 or higher or MariaDB equivalent
Nginx
Check the Debian version.
lsb_release -ds
# Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
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
Ensure that your system is up to date.
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
Install the needed packages.
sudo apt install -y zip unzip curl wget git
Install PHP, as well as the necessary PHP extensions.
sudo apt install -y php php-cli php-fpm php-common php-mbstring php-curl php-mysql php-json php-xml php-phar php-pdo php-gd
Check the version.
php -v
# PHP 7.3.14-1~deb10u1 (cli) (built: Feb 16 2020 15:07:23) ( NTS )
Check installed PHP extensions.
php -m
# mbstring
# curl
# gd
# PDO
# mysqli
# openssl
# . . .
Install MariaDB.
sudo apt install -y mariadb-server
Check the version.
mysql --version
# mysql Ver 15.1 Distrib 10.3.22-MariaDB, for debian-linux-gnu (x86_64) using readline 5.2
Run the mysql_secure_installation script to improve the security of your MariaDB installation.
sudo mysql_secure_installation
Log into MariaDB as the root user.
sudo 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 apt install -y nginx
Check the version.
sudo nginx -v
# nginx version: nginx/1.14.2
Configure Nginx for use with the X-Cart.
sudo vim /etc/nginx/sites-available/xcart.conf
And populate the file with the below config.
server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
root /var/www/xcart;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
server_name example.com;
location @handler {
index cart.php;
rewrite ^/sitemap.xml(\?.+)?$ /cart.php?target=sitemap;
rewrite ^/(.*)$ /cart.php?url=$1 last;
}
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ @handler;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri @handler;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.3-fpm.sock;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
}
}
Activate the new xcart.conf configuration by linking the file to the sites-enabled directory.
sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/xcart.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled
Test the configuration.
sudo nginx -t
Reload Nginx.
sudo systemctl reload nginx.service
Navigate to the /var/www directory.
cd /var/www/
Download the most recent release of X-Cart to your local workstation from https://www.x-cart.com/download.html.
Upload the X-Cart package to your server using SFTP. See our SFTP instructions here. Place the file in your /var/www/ directory. In this example, the filename is x-cart-5.4.0.10-en.tgz, yours may be different.
Extract the X-Cart package.
sudo tar -xzpf x-cart-5.4.0.10-en.tgz
sudo rm x-cart-5.4.0.10-en.tgz
Change ownership of the /var/www/xcart directory to www-data.
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/xcart
Navigate to example.com/install.php in your web browser and follow the instructions to finish the installation.