How to Install Bagisto on Ubuntu 22.04

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Bagisto is an eCommerce ecosystem designed for all to build and scale your business. It's a free and open-source eCommerce framework that offers you a wide range of functionality and lets you have total control of your store. Built on top of the Laravel stack, it is coupled with easy product information management and fast time to market the product. Besides, the framework is very flexible and easy to use even for non-tech savvies. In this article, we are going to learn how to install Bagisto on Ubuntu 22.04. So, let’s get started.

Pre-requisites :

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• A system with Ubuntu 22.04 installed and running.

• root access to the system.

Install Apache

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To Install Apache

apt update 

apt install apache2  

systemctl start apache2

systemctl enable apache2   

Install PHP 8.1

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To Install PHP

apt-get install -y php8.1 php8.1-{common,gmp,curl,soap,bcmath,intl,mbstring,xmlrpc,mysql,gd,xml,cli,zip} libapache2-mod-php8.1

To Enable the Apache php8.1 module and restart the Apache Web server

a2enmod php8.1

a2enmod rewrite

systemctl restart apache2

To check PHP Version.

php -v

Install Node.js

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apt-get install curl
curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_16.x | sudo -E bash -
apt-get install -y nodejs

Install the Composer

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apt install composer

composer -V

output:

root@vps:~# composer -V
Do not run Composer as root/super user! See https://getcomposer.org/root for details
Continue as root/super user [yes]? Y
Composer 2.2.6 2022-02-04 17:00:38

SSH User creation

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Add the user that will run the bagisto application.

adduser bagisto

Now Switch to bagisto

su - bagisto

Download Bagisto

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composer create-project bagisto/bagisto

cd bagisto/public

Apache configuration

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nano /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf

You will find the following lines as shown below, after executing the above command. Now, change this to

DocumentRoot    /home/bagisto/bagisto/public/

Configure the envvars

nano /etc/apache2/envvars

replace www-data to bagisto

Configure file apache2.conf

nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

Change it to the following code :

<Directory/home/bagisto/bagisto/public/>
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
    Require all granted
</Directory>

Create Database

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apt-get install mysql-server

mysql -u root

CREATE DATABASE bagisto;

CREATE USER 'bagistouser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'YOUR-PASSWORD-HERE';

Replace YOUR-PASSWORD-HERE with a Secure Strong Password

GRANT ALL ON bagisto.* TO 'bagistouser'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION;

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

EXIT

Make some changes to php.ini file.

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nano /etc/php/8.1/apache2/php.ini

Edit the file using below config

file_uploads = On
allow_url_fopen = On
short_open_tag = On
memory_limit = 256M
upload_max_filesize = 100M
max_execution_time = 360
date.timezone = America/Chicago
Changes to php.ini file

Bagisto configuration

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Go to the root directory for bagisto

cd /home/bagisto/bagisto

Now Edit the .env file with the mysql database

nano .env

Mysql database again and run the following command

SET GLOBAL log_bin_trust_function_creators = 1;

Install Bagisto

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php artisan bagisto:install

Setting up File Permissions

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chmod -R 755 /home/bagisto/bagisto

chown -R bagisto:bagisto /home/bagisto/bagisto

system restart apache2

Install SSL Certificate

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Let us install the SSL Certificate from Let's Encrypt. For this, you will need to install certbot via snapd.

Installing snapd,

apt install snapd

Check the snapd for updates,

snap install core; sudo snap refresh core

Install Certbot

snap install --classic certbot

ln -s /snap/bin/certbot /usr/bin/certbot

Since we're using Apache web server, run the below command to get the certificate,

certbot --apache

The Certbot will take care of your renewal automatically before they expire, you would have to run the certbot again only if you make changes to your configuration. You can perform a test run with below command,

certbot renew --dry-run

Next, reload the page on the browser and it should then redirect and load the HTTPS site https://dev.domainhere.info.

Accessing Bagisto Now open the URL from your browser, this will redirect you to the Bagisto.

https://dev.domainhere.info/

Replace the dev.domainhere.info with the actual IP or domain configured on the server.

Now you have successfully installed Bagisto on Ubuntu 22.04.