Opencart is one of the most popular E-commerce Framework in PHP. Opencart is easy to develop high level E-commerce websites. It's follow nicely defined MVC structure. This tutorial is belong to who are looking for best E-commerce solution.

We are going to setup Opencart on ubantu development environment.

Step 1: Download the stable release from

Step 2: Extract file

Note:- My project name is basket.me and Project location is /var/www/html/staging/basket

Step 3: Upload all file from upload directory to /var/www/html/staging/basket

Step 4: rename config-dist.php to config.php and admin/config-dist.php to admin/config.php

Step 5: For Linux/Unix make sure the following folders and files are writeable.

Now if all configuration are correct. you are able to access website using http://localhost/staging/basket but hold on we are not done yet! We are going to setup virtual domain for our project.

Step 6: Make host entry in hosts

Step 7: make copy of 000-default.conf

Edit basket.conf

Add code for directory .htaccess permission

before </VirutualHost>

Step 8: run

Now virtual domain setup process is complete. you can access your site using http://basket.me

Accept the term and condition and continue follow the remain step. Thats it! Your store is ready to use.