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How to Install X-Cart 5 on Fedora 31

Last Updated: Wed, Mar 4, 2020
Business Fedora MySQL and MariaDB PHP Server Apps Web Servers

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 Fedora 31 Vultr instance, using Nginx as the web server and MariaDB as the database server.

Requirements

  • PHP version 7.2 or higher

  • PHP extensions: pdo, phar, mysql, mbstring, curl

  • MySQL version 5.7.7 or higher or MariaDB equivalent

  • Nginx

Before you begin

Check the Fedora version.

cat /etc/fedora-release

# Fedora release 31 (Thirty One)

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, as well as the necessary PHP extensions.

sudo dnf install -y php-cli php-fpm php-common php-mbstring php-curl php-mysqlnd php-json php-xml php-phar php-pdo php-gd

Check the version.

php --version

# PHP 7.3.15 (cli) (built: Feb 18 2020 09:25:23) ( NTS )

Start and enable PHP-FPM.

sudo systemctl start php-fpm.service

sudo systemctl enable php-fpm.service

Install MariaDB

Install MariaDB.

sudo dnf install -y mariadb-server

Check the version.

mysql --version

# mysql  Ver 15.1 Distrib 10.3.21-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 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

Install Nginx.

sudo dnf install -y nginx

Check the version.

nginx -v

# nginx version: nginx/1.16.1

Start and enable Nginx.

sudo systemctl start nginx.service

sudo systemctl enable nginx.service

Configure Nginx for use with the X-Cart.

sudo vim /etc/nginx/conf.d/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:/run/php-fpm/www.sock;

    include fastcgi_params;

    fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;

    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;

  }

}

Test the configuration.

sudo nginx -t

Reload Nginx.

sudo systemctl reload nginx.service

Install X-Cart

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 nginx.

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

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 vim /etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf

# user = nginx

# group = nginx

Navigate to example.com/install.php in your web browser and follow the instructions to finish the installation.

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