How to Install PrestaShop on Google Cloud Server

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This post series offered a beginner’s guide to creating and running a functional online product store, detailing steps from domain registration to server setup on Google Cloud using Ubuntu Linux. It emphasized the role of open-source eCommerce platform, PrestaShop, and auxiliary software like Apache, Nginx, PHP, MySQL, or MariaDB, in realizing a dynamic, efficient, innovative…

This post shows students and new users steps to install PrestaShop on Google Cloud servers running Ubuntu Linux.

We have gone through a series of posts, starting with registering a domain name, setting up a Google Cloud server, and installing software and packages to help us build a functional product store online.

We’re now ready to install PrestaShop to help us build our first dynamic, efficient, and innovative eCommerce store and begin selling our products and services.

PrestaShop is an open-source eCommerce platform written in PHP with all the features you need to create an online store, and it can be paired with a MySQL or MariaDB database. With PrestaShop, one can create an eCommerce product store using free templates, plugins, and a support base to help you throughout the process.

This is the seventh post in this series, which can be used as a beginner’s guide to learning how to create a website domain, set up a Google Cloud server with Ubuntu Linux, and install software and packages to build and run a website online.

In this series:

Now that you’ve learned how to create a website domain, set up a Google Cloud server, and install Apache, Nginx, PHP, MySQL, or MariaDB, you can continue below to tie everything together with PrestaShop.

When we started this series, we said a web server allows content to be published and served to web clients and audiences browsing your website. A PHP or server-side scripting language allows for a dynamic and more functional website. A database server allows you to store your website content efficiently.

Other software and packages may also be needed to enhance the functionality of a website. Below, we’ll show you how to install these tools with PrestaShop.

In our first post, we also said that it can’t be used after creating a domain name until it is forwarded or pointed to a server. The second post showed you how to point a domain to a server we created. Then, we showed you how to install software and packages to help us run a website online.

We’re ready to connect to our Google Cloud server and install PrestaShop by tying the software and packages installed in our previous posts.

How to connect to Google Cloud servers

Google Cloud server (Compute Engine) allows users to connect using SSH from the browser window to their virtual machine (VM) instance within the Google Cloud Console

SSH from the browser supports the following:

  • Web browsers
    • The latest version of Google Chrome
    • Firefox
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 and later
    • Safari 8 and later. Note that Safari in private browser mode is not supported.
  • Virtual machine configurations
    • All Linux VM images are natively available in Google Cloud.

No additional software or browser extensions are needed. Simply login to Google Cloud Console and go to Menu ==> Compute Engine ==> VM instances.

In the list of virtual machine instances, click SSH in the row of the instance that you want to connect to.

Alternatively, you can open an SSH connection to an instance by clicking its name and SSH from the instance details page.

An SSH terminal window with the Ubuntu Linux instance created in the series’s second post will open.

You should now be able to run commands in Ubuntu Linux created on the Google Cloud server.

How to PrestaShop on Google Cloud Servers

Installing and managing a PrestaShop website on Ubuntu Linux is no different, whether on Google Cloud servers or a local VM instance.

Once you have installed all required packages, PrestaShop can be set up directly from your browser by browsing the server hostname or IP address.

Below is a detailed post to help you install PrestaShop on Ubuntu Linux with Apache or Nginx. Click on it to learn more about installing and managing PrestaShop on Ubuntu Linux.

How to install PrestaShop on Ubuntu Linux with Apache

How to install PrestaShop on Ubuntu Linux with Nginx

Each link above will show you all the steps we performed in our previous posts to get here. You also will learn how to secure your PrestaShop website with free Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates.

Following the links above and performing all the steps, you can create a store online using PrestaShop.

Conclusion:

This is the final post on installing PrestaShop on Ubuntu Linux in Google Cloud. Please use the comment form below if you find any errors above or have something to add.

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