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Installing Drupal

When you purchase the product you receive an archive of all necessary files for the ready-made SalesArt online store. If you haven't purchased a license yet, you can do so at: Buy license.

Extract the archive preserving its structure. You can install the site locally for testing and on hosting for production. Before you start managing a Drupal store with Drupal Commerce, the site must be deployed properly. The most modern and recommended way to install is via Composer. Composer ensures convenient dependency management and makes module/theme updates easier.

1.1 Environment preparation​

To install Drupal via Composer you will need:

  • PHP 8.1 or higher (PHP 8.2–8.3 recommended);
  • Composer 2;
  • MariaDB / MySQL 10+ or PostgreSQL;
  • a web server — Apache or Nginx;
  • Git (for cloning and code management).
Tip

Before the installation make sure your hosting or server has the following PHP extensions enabled: gd, pdo_mysql, mbstring, xml, curl, zip.

1.2 Install Composer​

Refer to the project documentation for instructions on how to install Composer on your hosting.

1.3 Installing Drupal with Composer​

Create the directory for your future site and copy composer.json and composer.lock into it. In your server terminal, go to the directory where composer.json is located and run:

 composer install

This will install the project. After installation you will have a structure like:

  • /web — site root;
  • /vendor — core dependencies;
  • composer.json — Composer configuration.

1.4 Installing the SalesArt theme​

Copy the itw_salesart folder from the archive to:

  /web/themes/custom/

Also copy the custom modules from the archive to:

  /web/modules/custom/

1.5 Copying the DB dump​

Upload the database dump from the archive to your hosting (or local server) and configure the database connection in

  web/sites/default/settings.php.

Set the database name, username and password (these are usually provided by the host).