In this tutorial we are going to provide you with step-by-step instructions on how to install PrestaShop with Nginx and PHP-FPM on an Ubuntu 16.04 VPS. PrestaShop is an open-source and easy to use shopping cart solution used to build professional e-commerce websites.
At the time of writing this tutorial, the latest stable version of PrestaShop is v1.7.1.2 and it requires:
- PHP >= 5.4 with the following PHP extensions enabled: cURL, GD, intl, Zip, PDO and OpenSSL. Also, using MemCached and mycrpt PHP extensions is highly recommended for better site performance;
- nginx or Apache web server;
- MySQL or MariaDB installed on your virtual server.
Make sure your package list and the OS packages are up to date by running the following commands:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade
To install the latest Nginx version from the official Nginx repository, edit the ‘/etc/apt/sources.list’ file:
sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list
Add the following lines:
deb http://nginx.org/packages/ubuntu/ xenial nginx deb-src http://nginx.org/packages/ubuntu/ xenial nginx
Install MySQL:
sudo apt-get install mysql-server
Stop and remove Apache service, then install nginx your virtual server using the following commands:
sudo service apache2 stop sudo apt-get remove apache2 sudo apt-get autoremove sudo apt-get install nginx
Configure Nginx to start on boot:
sudo update-rc.d -f nginx defaults
Install PHP and PHP modules required by PrestaShop:
sudo apt-get install php7.0 php7.0-cli php7.0-fpm php7.0-curl php7.0-mbstring php7.0-mysql php7.0-gd php7.0-zip php7.0-intl php7.0-mcrypt libgd-tools libmcrypt-dev mcrypt php-pear libgd-dev
Start the PrestaShop installation procedure
Download the latest version of PrestaShop available at their official website to a directory of your virtual server (e.g. /var/www/html/prestashop) and extract it using the following commands:
sudo apt-get install wget unzip mkdir -p /var/www/html/prestashop cd /var/www/html/prestashop wget -O archive.zip https://download.prestashop.com/download/releases/prestashop_1.7.1.2.zip unzip archive.zip unzip -o prestashop.zip rm archive.zip prestashop.zip
Create a new Nginx configuration file and add the following virtual block for your domain name:
vi /etc/nginx/conf.d/your-domain.com.conf
Add the following lines:
server {
listen 80;
server_name your-domain.com;
root /var/www/html/prestashop/;
index index.php;
access_log /var/log/nginx/your-domain.com-access.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/your-domain.com-error.log;
charset en_us.UTF-8;
location / {
error_page 404 = @prestashop; }
location @prestashop { rewrite ^(.*)$ /index.php?q=$1 last; }
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
}
Do not forget to replace ‘your-domain.com’ with your actual domain name. Then, disable the ‘default’ Nginx configuration file:
rm /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default
Open the ‘/etc/php/7.0/fpm/pool.d/www.conf’ file and change the ‘listen’ variable:
change:
listen = /run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock
to
listen = 127.0.0.1:9000;
Locate the PHP configuration file:
# php -i | grep -i php.ini Configuration File (php.ini) Path => /etc/php/7.0/cli Loaded Configuration File => /etc/php/7.0/cli/php.ini
Edit the ‘/etc/php/7.0/cli/php.ini’ configuration file:
vi /etc/php/7.0/cli/php.ini
Add/modify the following settings:
max_execution_time = 300 max_input_time = 600 memory_limit = 128M post_max_size = 64M upload_max_filesize = 64M
The web server user (www-data) needs to be able to write to files and directories inside the ‘/var/www/html/prestashop’ directory, so it can easily be accomplished by executing the following command:
sudo chown www-data:www-data -R /var/www/html/prestashop/
Test the nginx configuration:
# nginx -t nginx: the configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf syntax is ok nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test is successful
If test is successful, restart php7.0-fpm and Nginx services for the changes to take effect:
sudo service php7.0-fpm restart sudo service nginx restart
PrestaShop requires a database to work as this is where data is saved, so create a new MySQL database:
mysql -u root -p mysql> create database prestashopdb; mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON prestashopdb.* TO 'prestashopuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'Y0UR-PASSW0RD'; mysql> flush privileges; mysql> quit
Open http://your-domain.com/ using your favorite web browser and follow the easy instructions. Once installed, log in to the administrator back-end and configure PrestaShop according to your needs.
After PrestaShop has successfuly been installed, do not forget to delete the ‘/var/www/html/prestashop/install/’ directory from your server:
rm -rf /var/www/html/prestashop/install/
That is it. PrestaShop installation is now complete.
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