I got client who order service for moving his fresh store builder store. He use shared hosting that use cpanel. He don’t want to use cpanel anymore and willing to pay no more than $6/month for his vps server.
I give him two options : using digitalocean or vultr and he choose vultr.
I decide to share experience to hostingformula.net reader on how to build great vps server for freshstore builder user with minimum hassle 🙂
Create Server on Vultr
Vultr provide vps service start from $5 / month. Fresh Store Builder (FSB) user can use smallest server that Vultr provide.
1. Login to Vultr and create an instance
Click Deploy New Instance
Choose 64 bit tab and select Ubuntu 12.04 x64.
You may choose Ubuntu 12.04 x64 or Ubuntu 14.04 x64. I prefer to use 12.04 as I believe that version use lower memory consumption.
System will install everything and you can wait around 5 minutes for complete process.
You can monitor the process from console page. If you see like this picture (login 🙂 then you on the right process.
2. Login to vps server
Open ssh compatible software like putty (in windows) or terminal (unix/linux os).
I use terminal from my Lubuntu desktop.
Type :
ssh root@ipaddress
ip address and password available from vultr panel.
If your information is correct you can see # sign.
$ ssh root@108.61.197.166
The authenticity of host ‘108.61.197.166 (108.61.197.166)’ can’t be established.
ECDSA key fingerprint is 20:30:f6:bc:6f:b5:b8:cf:35:c6:c6:0b:af:55:d4:ec.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
Warning: Permanently added ‘108.61.197.166’ (ECDSA) to the list of known hosts.
root@108.61.197.166’s password:
Welcome to Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.2.0-63-generic x86_64)
* Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com/
The programs included with the Ubuntu system are free software;
the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.
Ubuntu comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by
applicable law.
root@108:~#
Update :
Change hostname if your hostname in numeric mode. Here’s how to do that (without restart server).
root@108:~# echo ‘fsb.hostingformula.net’ > /etc/hostname
root@108:~# service hostname start
hostname stop/waiting
root@108:~# hostname
fsb.hostingformula.net
At this stage you have working vps server that run Ubuntu operating system.
3. Install web server, php and database server
This task is handle by server pilot. Here the steps :
– Signup and login to server pilot.
– Click Servers link -> + Connect Server
Enter server name and click “continue with setup”.
ServPilot will give you command as you see on the page. Copy and paste the command :
Hit ENTER and follow instruction.
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Setting up sp-python3.3 (3.3.2-1) …
Setting up sp-python3.3-mysql-connector (1.0.10-1) …
Setting up sp-python3.3-setproctitle (1.1.6-1) …
Setting up sp-serverpilot-agent (1.0.0-6) …
Adding group `sp-appuser’ (GID 109) …
Done.
initctl: Unknown instance:
serverpilot-agent start/running, process 1076
********************************************************************************
[1;3ServerPilot is now configuring and securing your server.
[1;3Do not stop/resize/reboot your server right now.
[1;3You can manage this server at https://manage.serverpilot.io
********************************************************************************
root@108:~#
At this stage serverpilot is ready to work.
Go to serverpilot page and you’ll see this view.
Good. At this stage you have working vps server that ready to serve. PHP, MySQL and Web Server already configured by ServerPilot.
Install Fresh Store Builder on VPS Server
1. Pointing Domain to VPS Server
You can login to your domain registrar and set ip address of vps server.
I will configure subdomain http://store.hostingformula.net to vps server ip.
2. Create apps on serverpilot
Apps in serverpilot term is domain you want to use. If you use subdomain enter it on domain name section.
You can see the result
You can check for web server by visiting url or ip address.
Time to grab fsb file.
3. Create database for fsb on serverpilot
4. Login to Fresh Store Builder and download latest version.
5. Upload fsb file to vps server.
To upload file you can use software that support sftp like ftpzilla or winscp (windows). I use scp command from my terminal.
To get username and password for scp connection you can login to serverpilot and set the password.
Click Users link.
Pick user ‘serverpilot’
Set password for user serverpilot.
Write down information you get for send the file to server.
Username : serverpilot
Password : password you set
Ip Address : ip address from Vultr
Testing ssh to vps using previous step.
ssh serverpilot@108.61.197.166
(change 108.61.197.166 to your ip address).
$ ssh serverpilot@108.61.197.166
serverpilot@108.61.197.166’s password:
Welcome to Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.2.0-63-generic x86_64)
* Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com/
The programs included with the Ubuntu system are free software;
the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.
Ubuntu comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by
applicable law.
serverpilot@108:~$
If you see same view like I got then you good to go 🙂
Continue with checking folder for upload fsb file.
serverpilot@108:~$ pwd
/srv/users/serverpilot
serverpilot@108:~$ cd apps/store/
serverpilot@108:~/apps/store$ pwd
/srv/users/serverpilot/apps/store
serverpilot@108:~/apps/store$
Those command means :
pwd -> checking current directory
cd apps/store -> go to folder apps/store
pwd -> checking new directory
end result from the step is target directory for upload fsb file :
/srv/users/serverpilot/apps/store
Now send the file using scp.
$ scp Downloads/fsb_4.1.0.zip serverpilot@108.61.197.166:/srv/users/serverpilot/apps/store
That command will target folder /srv/users/serverpilot/apps/store as place for fsb_4.1.0.zip.
Wait for while.
$ scp Downloads/fsb_4.1.0.zip serverpilot@108.61.197.166:/srv/users/serverpilot/apps/store
serverpilot@108.61.197.166’s password:
fsb_4.1.0.zip 100% 6972KB 33.8KB/s 03:26
6. Install Fresh Store Builder on VPS
Login to vps server via ssh
$ ssh serverpilot@store.hostingformula.net
The authenticity of host ‘store.hostingformula.net (108.61.197.166)’ can’t be established.
ECDSA key fingerprint is 20:30:f6:bc:6f:b5:b8:cf:35:c6:c6:0b:af:55:d4:ec.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
Warning: Permanently added ‘store.hostingformula.net’ (ECDSA) to the list of known hosts.
serverpilot@store.hostingformula.net’s password:
Welcome to Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.2.0-63-generic x86_64)
* Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com/
Last login: Tue Jun 3 12:32:01 2014 from 202.67.43.40
serverpilot@108:~$
Extract zip files :
serverpilot@108:~$ cd apps/store/
serverpilot@108:~/apps/store$ ls -l
total 6988
-rw-r–r– 1 serverpilot serverpilot 7138828 Jun 3 12:53 fsb_4.1.0.zip
drwxr-xr-x 2 serverpilot serverpilot 4096 Jun 3 10:19 public
serverpilot@108:~/apps/store$ mv fsb_4.1.0.zip public/
serverpilot@108:~/apps/store$ cd public/
serverpilot@108:~/apps/store/public$ unzip fsb_4.1.0.zip
…………
extracting: templates/new/styles/.gitkeep
extracting: templates/new/styles/index.php
extracting: templates/new/styles/style.css
inflating: templates/README.md
inflating: .htaccess
serverpilot@108:~/apps/store/public$ ls
ajax apitester.php backups changelog.txt controllers files.txt fsb_4.1.0.zip image.php index.php library logs readme.txt sitemap.xml start templates
api autorun cache config emails freshadmin icons images install license.txt min robots.txt sitemaps temp
serverpilot@108:~/apps/store/public$
Continue by visit url to set FSB in first time.
Press Save button.
Create access information.
Enter all requested information related to Amazon and hit Save Parameters.
I got error message :
Site error: the file /srv/users/serverpilot/apps/store/public/library/amazon.php requires the ionCube PHP Loader ioncube_loader_lin_5.4.so to be installed by the website operator. If you are the website operator please use the ionCube Loader Wizard to assist with installation.
To fix this problem I need to install ionCube loader on Vultr vps, fortunately ServerPilot already give reference for this case.
After run the command refresh the url and you’ll see this page. Yes, administration page is ready now.
Congratulation. Installation process accomplish successfully.
I will continue with Configuration steps for Fresh Store Builder version 4 on other post.
Stay tune!