This guide focuses on how to install OpenCart 2 on CentOS 6. Before proceeding with this guide, make sure your server have met the following requirements.

• Have LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) installed Guide to Install LAMP stack on CentOS 6

1. Download OpenCart

Download OpenCart 2 from the following link, http://www.opencart.com/?route=download/download.

Then unzip the downloaded package.

2. Upload OpenCart to server

Use any FTP client (FileZilla, Transmit, etc) to upload your OpenCart files that you have just unzip to the server.

After uploading the files, renaming the following files:

• /config-dist.php to /config.php
• /admin/config-dist.php to /config.php

Note: For Apache servers, the directory that you are to upload to is /var/www/.

3. Enable file read/write permissions

Modify the file read/write permissions for the following files/directories:

• /var/www/store/config.php
• /var/www/store/admin/config.php
• /var/www/store/system/cache/
• /var/www/store/system/logs/
• /var/www/store/system/download/
• /var/www/store/system/upload/
• /var/www/store/image/
• /var/www/store/image/cache/
• /var/www/store/image/catalog/
• /var/www/store/system/modification/

Command to modify file read/write permissions

chmod 0777 <PATH TO FILE/FOLDER>

And one more additional command to run on image/cache directory

sudo chmod -R 777 image/cache/

 

4. Begin Installation

Now head over to your web browser and access the following url.

http://<YOUR DOMAIN>/install

5. Installation Step 1

Click on Continue to proceed.

6. Installation Step 2

If you have followed the previous steps correctly, then you should see all green ticks and all files/directories status are labelled as Writable.

Click on Continue to proceed.

7. Installation Step 3

Fill up your database connection details and an account for administration.

Then click on Continue to proceed.

8. Installation Step 4

That’s it! You have successfully setup an E-Commerce store online for yourself.

Feel free to drop me an email at [email protected] or leave a comment if you have any questions.