Quick installation guide osCommerce

I’m posting a quick Installation Guide for osCommerce Online Merchant v2.3.1 and osCommerce Online Merchant v3.0.1.

Here’s the quick install guide.

1. Create a new database via your web hosting control panel.

2. Download the osCommerce Online Merchant v2.3.1 or osCommerce Online Merchant v3.0.1, unzip it and extract the ‘catalog’ folder.

3. If you want your shop to be available at http://www.example.com/catalog then upload the whole of the catalog folder to the root directory of your website via FTP. If you want the site to be available at http://www.example.com then just upload all of the contents of the catalog folder, but not the folder itself.

4. Make sure that the permissions on all of the folders are set to 755, and if that does not work then set them to 777. Make sure that the includes/configure.php file and the admin/includes/configure.php file are set to 777 for the duration of the install. Once the install is complete reset to 644, 444, or 400 depending on your server setup.

5. Then go to http://www.example.com/install and begin the install procedure. Your DB Server will probably be ‘localhost’, your db user name and password (for mysql access) will have been provided to you by your web hosting company. The name of the database you already know – because you just set it up.

6. After the install, Reset permissions on the two configure.php files.

7. Password Protect your ‘admin’ folder using the Password Protect feature http://www.example.com/catalog/admin/administrators.php,  edit your user name check the Protect With htaccess/htpasswd option.

Enjoy!!!

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