Personally, I’m fond of Sitecore.HabitatHome.Utilities so much. It’s really a quick way for me to install the following Sitecore demo:

• Habitat Home: HabitatHome Demo and the tools and processes in it is a Sitecore® solution example built using Sitecore Experience Accelerator™ (SXA) on Sitecore Experience Platform™ (XP) following the Helix architecture principles
  • GitHub: https://github.com/Sitecore/Sitecore.HabitatHome.Content
  • Live site: https://experienceplatform.habitathomedemo.com/

Today, I want to play around with it by installing the following Sitecore demo:

• Habitat Home Commerce: HabitatHome Commerce Demo and the tools and processes in it is a Sitecore® solution example built using Sitecore Experience Accelerator™ (SXA) on Sitecore Experience Platform™ (XP) and Sitecore Experience Commerce™ (XC) following the Helix architecture principles
  • GitHub: https://github.com/Sitecore/Sitecore.HabitatHome.Commerce
  • Live site: https://experiencecommerce.habitathomedemo.com/

Step-by-step guide for installing Habitat Home Commerce (Sitecore XP 9.0.2 + SXA 1.7.1 + Sitecore XC 9.0.2)

1. install Habitat Home (Sitecore XP 9.0.2 and SXA 1.7.1)
   • Note: should execute .\build -Target “Quick-Deploy” in Step 13
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2. (optional) if you don’t want to wait for a looooooong operation and have a good chance to get connection issues, you will need to:
   • download and copy / paste the following package to \Sitecore.HabitatHome.Utilities\XC\install\assets\downloads
     • MSBuild Microsoft Visual Studio Web targets 14.0.0.3
     • Note: must log into https://dev.sitecore.net/ before downloading
       •  Sitecore.Commerce.2018.07-2.2.126.zip
   • download and copy / paste the following package to \Sitecore.HabitatHome.Utilities\XC\install\assets\Commerce
     • Habitat Home Product Images.zip
3. create the configuration-xc.json file and populate it with the default values
   • launch PowerShell as an administrator
   • change directory to \Sitecore.HabitatHome.Utilities\XC\install
   • execute .\set-installation-defaults
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4. (optional) if you don’t want to use the default settings, you will need to adjust the appropriate values in the configuration-xc.json file
   • launch PowerShell as an administrator
   • change directory to \Sitecore.HabitatHome.Utilities\XC\install
   • remove example extension out of \XC\install\set-installation-overrides.ps1.example manually or by executing copy set-installation-overrides.ps1.example set-installation-overrides.ps1
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   • open set-installation-overrides.ps1 and then correct the settings
   • execute .\set-installation-overrides
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5. Note: if the install directory of 7-zip is NOT “C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe”, you will need to update \Sitecore.HabitatHome.Utilities\XC\install\install-xc0.ps1
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6. let’s install Experience Commerce
   • launch PowerShell as an administrator
   • change directory to \Sitecore.HabitatHome.Utilities\XC\install
   • execute .\install-xc0
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   • you will be prompted for your https://dev.sitecore.net/ credentials – the required assets will be downloaded automatically if any, otherwise click Cancel button
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   • Note 1: we can remove the tasks completed from \Sitecore.HabitatHome.Utilities\XC\install\assets\Resources\Commerce_SingleServer.json and re-do this step if there is something wrong
   • Note 2: we can increase the execution timeout by updating \Sitecore.HabitatHome.Utilities\XC\install\assets\Resources\Modules\SitecoreUtilityTasks\SitecoreUtilityTasks.psm1 if you see something like this
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   • hopefully you can see something like this
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7. download or clone the git repo from Habitat Home Commerce 9.0.2.2
8. restore all Node.js modules
   • run command line as Administrator
   • change directory to \Sitecore.HabitatHome.Commerce
   • execute npm install
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9. Note: I don’t want to use the default settings so I need to adjust the appropriate values in the following files:
   • \gulp-config.js
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   • \publishsettings.targets
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   • \src\Project\HabitatHome\website\App_Config\Include\Project\z.HabitatHome.Commerce.Website.DevSettings.config
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   • \deploy-commerce-engine.ps1
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   • \src\Project\HabitatHome\engine\wwwroot\bootstrap\Global.json
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   • \src\Project\HabitatHome\engine\wwwroot\data\Environments\Plugin.SQL.PolicySet-1.0.0.json
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10. let’s deploy the solution
    • run command line as Administrator
    • change directory to \Sitecore.HabitatHome.Commerce
    • execute node_modules\.bin\gulp initial
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    • hopefully you can see something like this
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11. let’s deploy the engine
    • launch PowerShell as an administrator
    • change directory to \Sitecore.HabitatHome.Commerce
    • execute .\deploy-commerce-engine.ps1 -Boostrap -Initialize
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    • hopefully everything runs well and then you would see something like this
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12. open a browser and then navigate to https://habitathome.local, you would see something like this after adding some products to cart successfully
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Got issues?

Please send your issues (with screenshots if possible) to viet.hoang.sitecore@gmail.com so that I have a chance to understand your problem and be able to suggest the solution.

Happy Sitecore Demo Installation!