Setup nopCommerce

Prepare Docker compose

• Create docker-compose.yml and other required files from instruction in Docker compose for nopCommerce .
• Your project will have file structure as:

tree . -a
.
├── .env
├── Dockerfile
├── docker-compose.yml
├── entrypoint.sh
├── init-db.sql
└── initialize.sh

Launch Docker containers

• At root folder, run the following command:

docker-compose up

• This will take a several minutes because you have to wait for downloading SQL Server for Linux image.
• Wait until you see a message “Done initialize a database”

Setup

• Open a browser and navigate to http://localhost:8080.
• A browser will show nopCommerce installation page.
• Fill all required information:
  • Your admin email and password
  • Select a country.
  • Check “Create sample data”.
  • Select Microsoft SQL Server database
  • For Server name, enter db.
  • For Database name, enter nopcommerce.
  • For SQL Username, enter sa.
  • For SQL Password, enter 12345Abc$ (You can change this password in docker-compose.yml.)

• Click Install.

• Wait for a while until installation is completed.

• You will find a message “nopcommerce_compose_web exited with code 0” in a terminal.

Start a website

• In fact, nopCommerce tries to restart a website after installation is completed, but this does work in Docker context. Therefore, you need to manually restart a container.
• Stop and start Docker containers. Kill Docker containers by pressing CTRL+C and then run docker-compose up again.
• Wait for a while until a website is ready.
• Open a browser and navigate to http://localhost:8080
• You will find a home page of nopCommerce with some sample products.

Log in to admin panel.

• Open a browser and navigate to http://localhost:8080/admin

• Fill your admin email, password and click “LOG IN”.

• You will be redirect to admin panel.

• You can manage your products on products page.

Where are pictures stored?

• By default, nopCommerce store pictures in database
• You can find a setting at http://localhost:8080/Admin/Setting/Media.
• You can also query data with:

  SELECT p.Id, p.MimeType, p.SeoFilename, b.BinaryData
  FROM Picture p
  INNER JOIN PictureBinary b
  ON p.Id = b.PictureId;

How to connect to nopCommerce container?

docker exec -it nopcommerce_compose_web /bin/sh

Learn more about nopCommerce

• nopCommerce Documentation