Prestashop installation Ansible Role

Easy installation of PrestaShop 8.x on Debian/Ubuntu using Ansible

Requirements

PrestaShop 8.x has the following system requirements:

System: Linux.
Web server: Apache Web Server 2.4 or any later version, Nginx 1.0 or later (recomended).
PHP: 8.0~8.1 (compatibility chart).
MySQL: 5.6 minimum, a recent version is recommended.

Role Variables

Available variables are listed below, along with default values (see defaults/main.yml):

Prestashop version to deploy

If Prestashop has already been installed using this Ansible role, this version has to be higher than the current installed version (no downgrades for stability purpose).

see Prestashop releses on github

prestashop_version: 8.1.0

The URL to download Prestashop installer.

prestashop_download_url: "https://github.com/PrestaShop/PrestaShop/releases/download/{{ prestashop_version }}/prestashop_{{ prestashop_version }}.zip"

Name of the Prestashop Back Office folder

for security reasons, it is highly recommended to change this value with a random name, so that directory enumeration is made difficult for a potential attacker.

prestashop_backoffice_admin_folder: 'adminklwfjlkhF3DgG'

Prestashop installation web root path (to reference in your local webserver)

prestashop_root_path: "/var/www/{{ prestashop_domain }}"

Shop region

prestashop_timezone : Set timezone of instance.
prestashop_language : Language ISO code to install.
prestashop_country : Country of the shop.

prestashop_timezone: "America/New_York"
prestashop_language: "en"
prestashop_country: "en"

Prestashop domain name

will be written in the database and .htaccess file if using apache.

prestashop_domain: "prestashop.test"

Prestashop database parameters

prestashop_db_server : Database server hostname. any valid MySQL valid server name or IP address.
prestashop_db_user : Database server user (will be created).
prestashop_db_password : Database server password. the valid password for db_user.
prestashop_db_name : Database name.
prestashop_db_clear : if set to 1, the installation process will drop existing tables in prestashop_db_name.
prestashop_db_create : if set to 1, prestashop_db_name will be created by the installation process.
prestashop_db_prefix : Prefix of table names.
prestashop_db_prefix : Engine for MySQL (InnoDB, MyISAM).

prestashop_db_server: "127.0.0.1"
prestashop_db_user: "prestashop"
prestashop_db_password: "prestashop"
prestashop_db_name: "prestashop"
prestashop_db_clear: 1
prestashop_db_create: 1
prestashop_db_prefix: "ps_"
prestashop_db_engine: "InnoDB"

Prestashop admin user account parameters

prestashop_firstname : Admin user firstname.
prestashop_lastname : Admin user lastname.
prestashop_email : Your email to connect to the Back Office.
prestashop_password : Password for the administration Back Office.

prestashop_firstname: "PrestaShop"
prestashop_lastname: "Developer"
prestashop_email: "dev@{{ prestashop_domain }}"
prestashop_password: "p_prestashop"

Other basic configuration options for your shop

Those values are passed to the PHP installation script of Prestashop (more information here).

prestashop_name : Name of the shop.
prestashop_activity : Id of an activity (Complete list of activities).
prestashop_rewrite : Enable rewrite engine.
prestashop_fixtures : Install fixtures. Equivalent of “Installation of demo products” in the GUI.

prestashop_name: "PrestaShop"
prestashop_activity: 0
prestashop_rewrite: 1
prestashop_fixtures: 0

Name of the file used by Ansible to detect Prestashop installation.

prestashop_install_check: 'prestashop-install-ansible.txt'

Dependencies

unzip
php (see compatibility chart)
mysql

Example Playbook

Including an example of how to use your role (for instance, with variables passed in as parameters) is always nice for users too:

- hosts: localhost
  remote_user: root
  roles:
    - ansible-role-install-prestashop

ansible-galaxy

Install the role with ansible-galaxy command:

ansible-galaxy install -p ansible-role-install-prestashop -f

License

GPL-3.0

Author Information

This role was created in 2024 by ghorbani-ali.

mohammadjavad13778 / ansible-roles