Sitecore Experience Commerce (XC) : Step-by-step install Sitecore Commerce (XC) 10

Sitecore Commerce Server

Sitecore Experience Commerce is a natively integrated, cloud-enabled software platform that enables brands to fully personalize the end-to-end shopping experience—before, during, and after the transaction. 

It blends content, commerce, and contextual intelligence in a modern commerce platform built on .NET Core.

Please make sure that you meet the following hosting requirements and downloaded and installed the requisite software.

1. Operating system– Windows Server 2019/2016 or Windows 10 Pro(64-bit)
2. Redis (Windows): 3.0.504
3. .Net Framework – ASP.Net Core runtime 3.1.6 (Recommend to install v3.1.7 it has a security patch)
4. Database – Microsoft SQL Server 2017 Express Edition(This should be already installed as a part of XP 10)
5. Microsoft Web Deploy 3.6
6. Install URL Rewrite using Web Platform Installer
7. SOLR 8.4.0 (This should have already been installed as a part of XP 10 install)
8. PowerShell 6.0 or later
9. Web Platform Transformer (Download NuGet package)

Download following Sitecore Software before XC installation–

• Sitecore Experience Platform 10.0
• Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA) 10.0
• Sitecore PowerShell Extensions 6.0 for Sitecore 10.0

Before you begin the installation

• Ensure XP 10 instance is working and indexed. If not indexed rebuild all search indexes

• Check if the SOLR is working and accessible via HTTPS

Step-by-step installation process –

1. Create a installation folder for XC – xcinstall e.g. : – c:\scinstall
2. Extract and copy Sitecore.Commerce.WDP.2020.08-6.0.238.zip files to the “c:\scinstall folder”
3. Sitecore Experience Accelerator – Copy Sitecore Experience Accelerator 10.0.0.3138.zip to “c:\scinstall folder”
4. Sitecore PowerShell Extensions – Copy Sitecore.PowerShell.Extensions-6.1.1.zip file to “c:\scinstall” folder
5. Microsoft.Web.XmlTransform – Extract Web Platform Transform NuGet package and copy Microsoft.Web.XmlTransform.dll to “c:\scinstall” folder
6. Extract SIF.Sitecore.Commerce.5.0.49 to “c:\scinstall” folder
7. The folder structure should look like this
8. Update Deploy-Sitecore-Commerce.ps1 file
   1. $SiteNamePrefix
   2. $SiteName
   3. $IdentityServerSiteName
   4. $SiteHostHeaderName
   5. $XConnectInstallDir
9. Update DB related configuration
   • $SitecoreDbServer – In case of named instance ensure you set double slash between the server and instance name “SQLServerName\\SQLInstanceName” 
10. Update other DB related settings$SqlUser
    1. $SqlPass
    2. $CommerceServicesDbServer
11. [Optional] Update Sitecore domain or keep it default-$SitecoreDomain
    1. $SitecoreUsername
    2. $SitecoreUserPassword
12. Update SOLR details-$SolrUrl
    1. $SolrRoot
    2. $SolrService
13. [Optional] Update local account details$UserDomain
    1. $UserName
    2. $UserPassword
14. Create Commerce Engine Connect Client Secret for the Sitecore Identity Server
    1. Copy below script to file to scinstall/SIF.Sitecore.Commerce.5.0.49 folder example XC10SecretClientCertificate.ps1
    2. Execute the script and copy the secret key

$bytes = New-Object Byte[] 32
$rand = [System.Security.Cryptography.RandomNumberGenerator]::Create()
$rand.GetBytes($bytes)
$rand.Dispose()
$newClientSecret = [System.Convert]::ToBase64String($bytes)

Write-Host $newClientSecret

16. Copy the secret key to update $CommerceEngineConnectClientSecret variable in Deploy-Sitecore-Commerce.ps1

17. Execute Deploy-Sitecore-Commerce.ps1 script to install commerce

18. Once installed successfully log in to Sitecore, you shall find the Business tool in Dashboard

19. Goto content editor and navigate to item- /sitecore/content/Sitecore/Storefront/Settings/Site Grouping/Storefront to change Host Name

20. Visit the site to check if the default storefront site is loading