Add the modules required for Prestashop (adjust for whatever else you are installing): sudo apt install libapache2-mod-php7.3 php7.3 php7.3-common php7.3-curl php7.3-gd php7.3-imagick php7.3-mbstring php7.3-mysql php7.0-json php7.3-xsl php7.3-intl php7.3-zip.

Install php (adjusting version and number as you over time and making sure the version is correct for Prestashop / other software): sudo apt install php7.3.

Add PPA: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php.

At the end of all that I found this which seems to work just fine and dandy, so hopefully it works for you: There were about a million different tutorials out there that worked but were pretty hard. Further this blog is another great resource and has the php 7.4 stuff going on.

If packages need updating: sudo apt ugradeĮdit 210207 – It’s probably wise to check back to this Prestashop 1.7 System Requirement page as well to make sure you are installing the latest PS and PHP.

Check to see if this triggered new packages to upgrade: sudo apt update.

If you find you are not getting prompted for the questions after running the adduser command, it might be because you accidentally ran useradd command like me… weird how it works both ways…

(Optional) Test the new-found powers by running this and then cancelling: sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata.

Switch to new sysadmin user: su sysadmin.

Add new user to the sudo list: sudo usermod -aG sudo sysadmin.

Log into the server as root: ssh Make sysadmin user: adduser sysadmin and follow the prompts (should be password prompt and then a few questions).

This is a nice detailed tutorial on this if you’d like here. Ssh Set up a non-root user account on the server Note that it’s a little hard for me to find SSH stuff in the DO backend so for the records it’s at settings / security and then a tab (I think…) This step is important to do right away because propagation of the name server to the IP address / box takes an hour or more sometimes depending on where you are.īefore you install the droplet, make sure your SSH keys are set up properly because you are going to use them a lot in the terminal. Just go to ‘networking’, add your domain, then create your domains, subdomains, etc, and then point the A record to the Server you just initialed in step 1 above. In Digital Ocean (“DO”) it’s pretty easy but I don’t have any links to it.

Immediately set up your A records to point to your domain.

One thing I will say is that i used an Ubuntu 18.04 LTS server with 2GB of ram to make sure I had enough ram to do what’s needed for both the main site and prestashop. I won’t give detailed instructions here because there is lots of documentation out there. Let’s get started Big Step 1 – Set up the Digital Ocean Droplet

You should also have a nice password manager set up to save yourself much time and pain as you learn. Replace it with your actual one, of course. The idea of this server is that it will run the ‘main business website’ as well as the shopping cart.Īny time you see ‘123.123.123.123’ this is your IP address for your server. I landed on prestashop because it’s very open software, very flexible, been around for many years, and has a bunch of modules that should be quite helpful to roll out store after store. The real purpose of this tutorial is to make sure I don’t forget all the things I learned and also to leave some bread crumbs for others who might want to do the same thing.

I got a promotional code to try it out and glad I did. They also support UBports and their servers so I appreciate that. I started with Digital Ocean because I recall testing a ‘droplet’ and being surprised how easy and nice it was. I decided this was the day I had to learn how to set up an Ubuntu server myself and face it until I knew enough to do so. I understood from times past it probably isn’t wise to have a shopping cart that intends to scale on a shared cpanel host, even though it’s pretty dead easy to set that up. The background to this post is that I had a sudden need to ‘figure out shopping carts’. Setting up Prestashop on an ubuntu server is doable and Digital Ocean makes it pretty painless.

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