- EKSHOP MARKETPLACE
- About
- Features
- Requirements
- Easy Installation
- Server Setup
ekShop is a fully open-source eCommerce platform that is customizable and configurable to your needs. It is completely free, adaptable and open to be supported by a worldwide community of volunteers and contributors. It’s free and open source nature allows users to maintain complete control of the data content and modify it as they wish and according to their needs. Our intended goal is to allow any potential entrepreneur to quickly get up and running with an online platform to sell goods online. Some key features of Marketplace include:
- Showcase digital and physical goods in categories, sorting by brands
- Multi-vendor support with management tools and configuration
- Modular product blocks allow you to customize pages in minutes.
- Built in campaign tools to allow for promotions and sales
- SEO configuration input simplified to boost page rank in search results
- Admin dashboard to import and export items in bulk
- Inventory management
- Multi-user access
- Ticket based support system
- Social media integration
- Multiple payment integration supported
- Privacy preserving with limited or no 3rd party data tracking
Our platform is open to modifications by developers by its open source nature. With this in mid, the platform is built with the best standards and practices to ensure ease with expanding the code base and making it scalable. Learn more by exploring the documentation or seeing the code in the Github repository.
- Ubuntu Server
- Apache
- PHP 8
- Laravel 8.0
- MySQL or
- MariaDB
#1st need to update composer itself
composer self-update
git clone https://github.com/a2i-dpg/ekShop.git
import database (find DB in database folder)
cp .env.example .env
composer install
php artisan storage:link
php artisan key:generate
php artisan passport:install --force- right click on the laragon window:
- go to Apache > sites-enabled > {eksho-dpg.test}.conf =>
- remove '/public' from "define ROOT "D:/laragon/www/ekshop-dpg-latest/public"
- *Resstart Laragon
- http://localhost/project_folder
or - http://www.dummy-host.com (FOr Real Domain Address) or
- http://ekshop-dpg.test (For Laragon User)
#Login as an Admin Username: admin@admin.com Password: 123456
#Login as a Customer Username: customer@example.com Password: 123456
#Login as a Seller Username: seller@example.com Password: 123456
sudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get install apache2sudo apache2ctl configtestsudo apt update
sudo apt install mysql-client mysql-server
sudo mysql_secure_installation
CREATE DATABASE laravel;
mysql -u root -p
CREATE USER 'laravel'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'secret';
GRANT ALL ON laravel.* to 'laravel'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
quitsudo apt -y install php8
sudo apt-get install -y php8-cli php8-json php8-common php8-mysql php8-zip php8-gd php8-mbstring php8-curl php8-xml php8-bcmath
sudo apt-get install php8-mysqli
php -vsudo service apache2 restartOnce php installed, need to install composer if not installed on machine. To install composer please follow following steps. Reference link
php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"
php -r "if (hash_file('sha384', 'composer-setup.php') === '55ce33d7678c5a611085589f1f3ddf8b3c52d662cd01d4ba75c0ee0459970c2200a51f492d557530c71c15d8dba01eae') { echo 'Installer verified'; } else { echo 'Installer corrupt'; unlink('composer-setup.php'); } echo PHP_EOL;"
php composer-setup.php
php -r "unlink('composer-setup.php');"
sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
composer -v <Directory "/var/www/html">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>vi [Real Domain Address or Dummy Domain Address Like (www.dummy-host.com)].conf <VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName [Real Domain Address or Dummy Domain Address Like (www.dummy-host.com)]
ServerAdmin webmaster@[Real Domain Address or Dummy Domain Address Like (www.dummy-host.com)]
DocumentRoot /var/www/html
<Directory /var/www/html>
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
ErrorLog /var/www/html/error.log
CustomLog /var/www/html/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>sudo a2dissite 000-default.conf
sudo a2ensite [Real Domain Address or Dummy Domain Address Like (www.dummy-host.com)]
sudo a2enmod rewrite
sudo systemctl restart apache2Use XAMPP or WAMP, if use XAMPP (PHP development environment) for installing php and Mysql or MariaDB server in windows local machine, for this case download xampp version (7.3 / PHP 7.3) in c drive.
Once installed xapmm, update configure apache server if needed, in this case go to C:\xampp\php\php.ini and extend limit max_execution_time = 10000 , max_input_time = 10000, memory_limit = 2048M, post_max_size = 2048M, upload_max_filesize = 2048M .
Once XAMPP installed successfully, need to install composer if not installed on machine. To install composer please follow following steps. Download link
Download and run Composer-Setup.exe - it will install the latest composer version whenever it is executed. Once downloaded composer.exe, install this file and use command line path (C:\xampp\php\php.exe)
Now open the xampp server then run Apache and MySQL service.
Project folder path should be C:\xampp\htdocs
To check composer version run this command into cli
composer -vThis version of ekShop has been upgraded to utilize the features and improvements offered by Laravel 8 and PHP 8. Below are key considerations and steps to ensure compatibility and optimal functionality:
- PHP: Version 8.0 or greater.
- Web Server: Apache or Nginx with PHP 8 support.
- Database: MySQL 8.0 or MariaDB 10.4.22.
- Composer: Ensure you have the latest version installed.
- json
- pdo_mysql
- mbstring
- curl
- xml
- bcmath
- gd
- zip
These can typically be installed via your operating system’s package manager. For Ubuntu, you would use:
sudo apt-get install php8.0-json php8.0-mbstring php8.0-curl php8.0-xml php8.0-bcmath php8.0-gd php8.0-zipCopyright 2024 @a2i, Bangladesh
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