Ecom – Your All-in-One Multi-Vendor eCommerce CMS

Ecom is a powerful, feature-rich Multi-Vendor eCommerce CMS designed

to help you build, manage, and scale your online marketplace with ease.
Whether you want to manage multiple independent vendors or run your
own in-house store, Ecom offers the flexibility to operate locally or expand
globally.

One of Ecom’s standout features is its adaptability — you can seamlessly

switch between multi-vendor and single-vendor modes at any time, giving
you complete control over your business model. From selling physical
goods to delivering digital products, Ecom supports it all, with a seamless
experience across web and mobile platforms.

Key Highlights

 Multi-Vendor & Single-Vendor Support – Switch between models

effortlessly.

 Comprehensive Product Support – Sell both physical and digital

products.

 Cross-Platform Availability – Fully functional on web, Android,

and iOS.

Scalable & Secure – Built with modern, reliable technologies.

Technologies Behind Ecom

Solution / Technolo
Key Features
Module gy

Super Admin PHP Role-based access, commission management, built-in POS, order & delivery manageme
Panel Laravel promotions, and in-house shop control.

PHP
Vendor Panel Full vendor product management and sales tracking.
Laravel

Website / PHP
Fully responsive, cross-device compatibility.
Frontend Laravel

To configure the application, you must follow the steps below-

 First, you need to deploy your web panel on the server.

 Use the web host URL as the base URL and use that for setting up
your app.
The preceding content serves as a summary. For more detailed
explanations, refer to the subsequent sections within this documentation.

Also, you can customise any part of the application according to your own.

Warning

If anything goes wrong with the customization you made, we won’t be

responsible for that.

Admin and web application configuration

Prerequisite

Ecom is dependent on PHP version 8.2 or higher and MySQL version 5.7 or
later. Additionally, the following server configurations and PHP extensions
are necessary:

1. Mod_rewrite for Apache

2. BCMath PHP extension

3. Ctype PHP extension

4. JSON extension

5. Mbstring extension

6. OpenSSL extension

7. PDO extension

8. Tokeniser extension

9. XML extension

10. Zip extension

11. Fileinfo extension

12. Gd extension

13. Sodium extension

Typically, these extensions are enabled by default on most servers.

However, it is advisable to verify the configuration with your hosting
provider to ensure compatibility with the project.

Environment Configuration

Table of Contents
  Local

 CPanel

 Database Configuration

 Domain Configuration

 Digital Ocean

 Server Setup

 Installing LAMP Stack

 Configure domain

 Domain propagation

 Setup SSL with Certbot on Apache

 MySQL Database and User Setup

 phpMyadmin setup (optional)

 Project Setup

Local

Choose the right development environment for your local machine based
on the operating system. Follow the instructions below for a smooth setup:

1. Windows (XAMPP):

– Download and install XAMPP to set up a comprehensive local

development environment on Windows.

2. Linux (LAMP):

– Configure the LAMP stack on your Linux distribution for the local
development environment.

3. MacOS (MAMP):

– Install MAMP to establish a compatible local development environment

on MacOS.

Each choice gives you a flexible setup that fits well with your computer’s
system. Watch the tutorial videos for step-by-step help while installing.

CPanel

Database Configuration
Before starting the admin installation, the database must be configured
for the application.

For creating the database, the following ways must be

maintained-

 Go to MySQL Databases

 Create a new database for the application

  Create a user for the database

WARNING

Avoid using hash (“#”) in your password

 Add the user to the database

  Give privileges to the user

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From one hosting provider to the next, the interface or step differs. Speak
with your server provider if you’re having trouble configuring the
database. You can also get in touch with us for any type of consulting if
you need it.

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Domain Configuration

Navigate to your cPanel and locate the page for domain

configuration.
Digital Ocean

Initially, you must configure a droplet to host your application, allowing

you to modify the configuration according to your business needs. We
advise a minimum specification of 2 cores CPU paired with 4GB of RAM,
with the option to increase resources for larger client bases.

Server Setup

To host an application on a Virtual Private Server (VPS), you need to

configure the LAMP stack, which serves as the environment for
PHP/Laravel applications. LAMP comprises Linux, Apache2, MySQL, and
PHP. Alternatively, NGinx can be used instead of Apache2, but this tutorial
focuses only on Apache2 configuration.

Installing LAMP Stack

This guide will walk you through the process of setting up a LAMP stack on
an Ubuntu server. Make sure you have an Ubuntu server instance with
sudo privileges.

Run the following commands for installing required things-

 Step 1: Update Package Lists

sudo apt update

 Step 2: Install Apache

sudo apt install apache2 -y

  Step 3: Install MySQL

sudo apt install mysql-server

 Step 4: Install PHP

sudo apt install php libapache2-mod-php php-mysql

 Step 5: Test PHP Processing

echo "<?php phpinfo(); ?>" | sudo tee /var/www/html/[Link]

 Step 6: Additional PHP Modules

sudo apt install php-bcmath -y

sudo apt install php-ctype -y

sudo apt install php-json -y

sudo apt install php-mbstring -y

sudo apt install php-openssl -y

sudo apt install php-pdo -y

sudo apt install php-tokenizer -y

sudo apt install php-xml -y

sudo apt install php-zip -y

sudo apt install php-fileinfo -y

sudo apt install php-gd -y

sudo apt install php-sodium -y

sudo apt install php-mysql -y

Afterward, access the IP address, and you’ll be directed to the default

Apache configuration page.

Check if the PHP is working correctly or not by hitting the URL

YOUR_IP/[Link] and you can see the system’s PHP configs.

Configure domain

Make sure you have an Apache web server installed. For configuring
domain in your VPS server, you must configure a vhost (Virtual Host)
configuration file. Follow the steps below to configure vhost config file for
both domain.
  Step 1: Navigate to Apache Sites Directory

cd /etc/apache2/sites-available/

 Step 2: Create a Virtual Host Configuration File

sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/your_domain.[Link]

Add the following content:

<VirtualHost *:80>

ServerAdmin webmaster@your_domain.com

ServerAlias www.your_domain.com

ServerName your_domain.com

DocumentRoot /var/www/your_domain.com/public_html

<Directory /var/www/your_domain.com/public_html>

Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks

AllowOverride All

Require all granted

</Directory>

ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/[Link]

CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/[Link] combined

</VirtualHost>

Save the file and exit the text editor.

 Step 3: Enable the virtual host configuration file

sudo a2ensite your_domain.[Link]

 Step 4: Reload the Apache2 server

sudo systemctl reload apache2

 Step 5: Test the Virtual Host

Open your web browser and navigate to [Link] You

should see your website.

Domain propagation
Domain propagation refers to the process of updating DNS (Domain Name
System) records across the internet, allowing a newly purchased domain
to become accessible globally.

To initiate the process, configure an A record for your domain.

Info

Once DNS changes are made, propagation begins. It can take anywhere
from a few minutes to 48 hours for DNS changes to propagate worldwide.
During this time, some users might see the old site while others see the
new one.

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Once your domain is propagated, check from the follow site

– [Link]

Setup SSL with Certbot on Apache

SSL (Secure Socket Layer) is crucial for securing data transmitted between
the user’s browser and your web server. Certbot is a free, open-source
software tool for automatically managing SSL certificates.

In this guide, we’ll walk through the process of setting up SSL for your
Apache web server using Certbot.

Before you begin, make sure you have:

 An Apache web server installed.

 A registered domain pointing to your server’s IP address.

 The domain is accessible over HTTP (port 80).

Step 1: SSH into the server

Access the server hosting your HTTP website via SSH using a user account
with sudo privileges.

Step 2: Install snapd

Ensure that you install snapd and carefully follow any provided
instructions to activate classic snap support.

Refer to the instructions provided on snapcraft’s website for installing

snapd.

install snapd

Step 3: Remove certbot-auto and any Certbot OS packages

If you have any Certbot packages installed via an OS package manager
such as apt, it’s advisable to uninstall them before installing the Certbot
snap. This ensures that when you execute the command “certbot,” the
snap version is utilized rather than the one from your OS package
manager. For removing the certbot from the system run the following
command

sudo apt-get remove certbot

Step 4: Install Certbot

Execute this command on the command line of your machine to install

Certbot.

sudo snap install --classic certbot

Step 5: Prepare the Certbot command

Run the following instruction on the command line of your machine to

ensure that the certbot command can be executed.

sudo ln -s /snap/bin/certbot /usr/bin/certbot

Step 6: Choose how you’d like to run Certbot

Either get and install your certificates…

Run this command to get a certificate and have Certbot edit your apache
configuration automatically to serve it, turning on HTTPS access in a single
step.

sudo certbot --apache

Or, just get a certificate

If you’re feeling more conservative and would like to make the changes to
your apache configuration by hand, run this command.

sudo certbot certonly --apache

Step 7: Test automatic renewal

The Certbot packages on your system come with a cron job or systemd
timer that will renew your certificates automatically before they expire.
You will not need to run Certbot again, unless you change your
configuration. You can test automatic renewal for your certificates by
running this command:

sudo certbot renew --dry-run

Step 8: Confirm that Certbot worked

To confirm that your site is set up properly, visit [Link]
in your browser and look for the lock icon in the URL bar.

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MySQL Database and User Setup

Setting up a MySQL database involves creating a database, creating a

user, and assigning that user appropriate privileges. This guide will walk
you through the process using MySQL commands.

Before you begin, make sure you have:

 MySQL installed on your server.

 MySQL root access or a user with sufficient privileges.

Step 1: Log in to MySQL

sudo mysql

Step 2: Create a Database

CREATE DATABASE your_database_name;

Replace your_database_name with the desired name for your database.

Step 3: Create a MySQL User

CREATE USER 'your_username'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY

'your_password';

Replace your_username with the desired username

and your_password with the desired password for the user.

Step 4: Grant All Privileges to the User for the Database

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON your_database_name.* TO

'your_username'@'localhost';

Step 4: Flush the privileges

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

Replace your_database_name with the name of the database created in

Step 2 and your_username with the username created in Step 3

Step 5: Exit MySQL

EXIT;
phpMyadmin setup (optional)

Run the following commands for installing phpmyadmin in your system

sudo apt update

sudo apt install phpmyadmin php-mbstring php-zip php-gd php-json php-

curl

Here are the options you should choose when prompted in order to
configure your installation correctly:

 For the server selection, choose apache2

Warning

When the prompt appears, “apache2” is highlighted, but not selected. If

you do not hit SPACE to select Apache, the installer will not move the
necessary files during installation. Hit SPACE, TAB, and then ENTER to
select Apache.

 Select Yes when asked whether to use dbconfig-common to set up

the database

 You will then be asked to choose and confirm a MySQL application

password for phpMyAdmin

Restart the apache2 server-

sudo systemctl restart apache2

Project Setup

Upload your project in /var/www/your_domain.com/public_html and unzip

the file

apt install unzip

unzip your_file_name

Then give permission to some specific files & folders

sudo chmod 755 .env

sudo chmod 777 modules_statuses.json

sudo chmod 777 Providers/[Link]

sudo chmod -R 777 storage

sudo chmod -R 777 bootstrap/cache

sudo chmod -R 777 resources/lang

Now you are ready to go for the installation.