This article describes the steps to install and use the Shopware eCommerce platform on Ubuntu Linux.
Shopware is an eCommerce platform that helps you run your online shops. It has everything you need to build an eCommerce website to sell your products and comes with feature sets that enable a robust online store with an impressive user experience.
Whether creating an eCommerce website for personal use or building a robust business online portal, Shopware can help you efficiently create and manage your content and products on every device with its minimalist and modern user and admin interface.
If you currently run eCommerce platforms like Magento or PrestaShop and are unhappy, you may want to try Shopware. It’s a great alternative to those PHP-based content management systems.
For more on Shopware CMS, please visit its home page
How to install Shopware no Ubuntu Linux with Nginx support
As described above, Shopware is an eCommerce platform that helps you run your online shops. It has everything you need to build an eCommerce website to sell your products and comes with feature sets that enable a robust online store with an impressive user experience.
Below is how to install it on Ubuntu Linux.
Install Nginx HTTP Server on Ubuntu
Nginx HTTP Server is probably the second most popular web server, so install it since Shopware needs it.
To install Nginx HTTP on the Ubuntu server, run the commands below.
sudo apt update sudo apt install nginx
After installing Nginx, the commands below can be used to stop, start and enable the Nginx service to always start up with the server boots.
sudo systemctl stop nginx.service sudo systemctl start nginx.service sudo systemctl enable nginx.service
To test the Nginx setup, open your browser and browse to the server hostname or IP address, and you should see the Nginx default test page as shown below. When you see that, then Nginx is working as expected.
http://localhost
Install MariaDB Database Server
MariaDB database server is a great place to start when looking at open-source database servers for Magento. To install MariaDB run the commands below.
sudo apt-get install mariadb-server mariadb-client
After installing MariaDB, the commands below can stop, start and enable the MariaDB service to start up when the server boots.
Run these on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
sudo systemctl stop mysql.service sudo systemctl start mysql.service sudo systemctl enable mysql.service
Run these on Ubuntu 18.04 and 18.10 LTS
sudo systemctl stop mariadb.service sudo systemctl start mariadb.service sudo systemctl enable mariadb.service
After that, run the commands below to secure the MariaDB server by creating a root password and disallowing remote root access.
sudo mysql_secure_installation
When prompted, answer the questions below by following the guide.
- Enter current password for root (enter for none): Press the Enter
- Set root password? [Y/n]: Y
- New password: Enter password
- Re-enter new password: Repeat password
- Remove anonymous users? [Y/n]: Y
- Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n]: Y
- Remove test database and access to it. [Y/n]: Y
- Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n]: Y
Restart MariaDB server
Type the commands below to log on to the MariaDB server to test if MariaDB is installed.
sudo mysql -u root -p
Then type the password you created above to sign on. If successful, you should see MariaDB welcome message
Install PHP 7.2-FPM and Related Modules
PHP 7.2-FPM may not be available in Ubuntu default repositories. To install it, you will have to get it from third-party repositories.
Run the commands below to add the below third party repository to upgrade to PHP 7.2-FPM
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
Then update and upgrade to PHP 7.2-FPM
sudo apt update
Next, run the commands below to install PHP 7.2 and related modules.
sudo apt install php7.2-fpm php7.2-common php7.2-gmp php7.2-curl php7.2-intl php7.2-mbstring php7.2-xmlrpc php7.2-mysql php7.2-gd php7.2-xml php7.2-cli php7.2-zip
After installing PHP 7.2-FPM, run the commands below to open Nginx’s PHP default config file.
sudo nano /etc/php/7.2/fpm/php.ini
Then save the changes on the following lines below in the file. The value below is an excellent setting to apply in your environment.
file_uploads = On allow_url_fopen = On short_open_tag = On memory_limit = 256M cgi.fix_pathinfo = 0 upload_max_filesize = 100M max_execution_time = 360 date.timezone = America/Chicago
After making the change above, please save the file and close it.
After installing PHP and related modules, you must restart Nginx to reload PHP configurations.
To restart Nginx, run the commands below
sudo systemctl restart nginx.service
Create Shopware Database
Once you’ve installed all the packages required for Shopware to function, continue below to start configuring the servers. First, run the commands below to create a blank Shopwaredatabase.
To log on to the MariaDB database server, run the commands below.
sudo mysql -u root -p
Then create a database called shopware
CREATE DATABASE shopware;
Create a database user called shopwareuser with a new password
CREATE USER 'shopwareuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'new_password_here';
Then grant the user full access to the database.
GRANT ALL ON shopware.* TO 'shopwareuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'user_password_here' WITH GRANT OPTION;
Finally, save your changes and exit.
FLUSH PRIVILEGES; EXIT;
Download Shopware Latest Release
To get Shopware latest release, you may use the GitHub repository. Install Composer, Curl, and other dependencies to get started.
sudo apt install curl git curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | sudo php -- --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer
After installing curl and Composer above, change into the Nginx root directory and download Shopware packages from Github.
cd /var/www/html sudo composer create-project shopware/composer-project shopware --no-interaction --stability=dev cd /var/www/html/shopware sudo ./app/install.sh sudo ./app/post-install.sh
The install. sh command above should provide you with several prompts. Use the guide below to complete the following:
Hi there! We need to configure your shop before proceeding any further, please complete the following fields -------------------------- Database settings -------------------------- Enter your database host (default: 127.0.0.1): localhost Enter your database name (default: swcomposer): shopware Enter your database username (default: shopware): shopwareuser Enter your database password (default: shopware): database_user_password Enter your database port number (default: 3306): -------------------------- Admin settings -------------------------- Admin username (default: demo): admin Admin password (default: demo): admin_user_password Admin name (default: John Doe): Admin User Admin email (default: demo@demo.com): admin@example.com -------------------------- Shop settings -------------------------- Enter your shop URL incl. protocol and path (default: http://shopware.example/path): http://example.com Would you like to install demo data? (Y/n) y
After running the above commands, run the commands below to set the correct permissions for Shopware to function.
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/shopware/ sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/shopware/
Configure Nginx
Finally, configure the Apahce2 site configuration file for Shopware. This file will control how users access Shopware content. Run the commands below to create a new configuration file called shopware
sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/shopware
Then copy and paste the content below into the file and save it. Replace the highlighted line with your domain name and directory root location.
server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
root /var/www/html/shopware;
index shopware.php index.php index.html index.htm;
server_name example.com www.example.com;
client_max_body_size 100M;
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 /recovery/update/ {
location /recovery/update/assets {
}
if (!-e $request_filename){
rewrite . /recovery/update/index.php last;
}
}
location ~ \.php$ {
include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
}
}
Save the file and exit.
Enable the Shopware
After configuring the VirtualHost above, please enable it by running the commands below.
sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/shopware /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/ sudo systemctl restart nginx.service
Restart Nginx by running the commands below to load all the settings above.
sudo systemctl restart nginx.service
Then open your browser and browse the server to connect to the shopware portal.
http://example.com/
You should see the Shopware eCommerce portal for you.
Congratulation! You have successfully installed Shopware on Ubuntu 16.04 | 18.04, which may work on 18.10.
In the future, when you want to upgrade to a newly released version, run the commands below to upgrade.
Update the version number of /var/www/html/shopware/composer.json in the composer.json, e.g., from 5.4.0 to 5.4.1 after this version has been released:
sudo nano /var/www/html/shopware/composer.json
Then update the version number.
"require": {
"shopware/shopware": "5.4.1",
.
Then run composer update to have Composer update the installed version of Shopware to the new version. Do not forget to commit to the new Composer.lock file to your project afterward.
cd /var/www/html/shopware/ sudo composer update
That’s it!
