What is Abantecart #
Abantecart is one of the eCommerce store builders. Abantecart fit to various online business. It provides growth and flexibility to eCommerce businesses. It is open-source software anyone can use for their eCommerce business. Using Abantecart you can customize your store. Here is how to install Abantecart using a softaculous app installer and manual installation.
Uses of Abantecart #
- Retailers
- Ecommerce
- Small business owners
System requirements to install abantecart #
- PHP
- 1.3.0 requires PHP 7.4+
- 1.2.16 requires PHP 5.6+
- Database
- MySQL 5.7+
- Webserver
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- Apache
Features of abantecart #
- Seo friendly eCommerce
- Easy to use
- Fast and secure
- Mobile friendly
How to Install abantecart #
For the installation of abantecart, there are 2 methods to install on your hosting
- Install abantecart using softaculous app installer
- Install abantecart manually
Install abantecart using softaculous app installer #
For installation of abantecart using a softaculous app installer, you have to follow some steps the steps are a follows
Step1: login to your hostrik hosting account and in Cpanel and go to the software section, and click on softaculous app installer.
Step2: in the softaculous app installer search box type abantecart and press enter, the installation window of abantecart will open, click the install button.
Step3: In the next window, you will see the installation window and it will ask you to fill in some information about your site.
Step4: in software, set up selects the protocol of your site and domain off sit after that select the directory of your site.
Step5: in-store setting give the admin folder name.
Step6: in the admin account set, give your admin account’s username and password and give the email id for your admin account.
Step7: After that in the advanced section create the database for your store by giving your name to the database. Also, select the backup for your database, and click install.
Install abantecart manually #
For manual installation of abantecart, you have to follow the following steps the steps are divided into 3 parts
- File configuration
- Database creation
- Configuration of abantecart
File configuration
Step1: go to abantecart official website and download the latest version of the software from the download section.
Step2: extract that file, and log in to your hostrik Cpanel account, in that go to the file section click on file manager.
Step3: in the public_html folder upload the file that you extracted where you are going to install the abantecart.
Database creation
Step1: in database creation go to the database section of your Cpanel account and in that click on MySQLDatabase,
Step2: After opening a new window that creates the new database by giving the name of the database and click on create database.
Step3: After creating the database, you have to dd user to that database in add user section, give the user’s username and password, and click on create a user.
Step4: when you create a user you have to give privileges to that user, click on all privileges to all privileges to that user.
Configuration of abantecart
Step1: go to the URL you are going to install abantecart, you will see the license agreement of abantecart.
Step2: in the next step abantecart checks all the system requirements like PHP version MySQL database and when it checks all are the requirements are ok, then click on ok.
Step3: in the next step, you have to configure your database created with the abantecart, give the username and password to the database, and give the name you created in the above step. Then in the admin section give the username and password for the admin account and email also.
Step4: in the next step you will see your installation is completed you can now customize your store by login into your backend.