What is a Zen cart #
Zencart is the eCommerce store software with additional and latest features in it. It is developed by the shop owners, designers, and developers, and consultants to look and how the eCommerce store should be looked at. It is a user-friendly software that manages the eCommerce store, and it is free to use anyone can use it for their store or business. It is easily customizable and you can add your own payment method to it for payment transfer.
Uses of Zen cart #
- Online store
- Small business
- Fruits and vegetable store
- Sports equipment
- Any other store
System Requirements of Zencart #
- PHP
- Version 1.5.8 onwards require PHP 5.3
- Database
- Minimum 5.7.2, recommended 5.7.2+
- Webserver
- Apache
- Nginx
Installation of OSCommerce #
For the installation of Zencart, there are 2 methods to install on your hosting
- Installation using softaculous app installer
- Manual installation
Installation using softaculous app installer #
For installation of Zen cart using 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 Zen cart and press enter, the installation window of Zen cart 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 selects the name of your store then that also gives the store owner’s name and the in-store address section gives the address of your store’s address.
Step6: in the admin account set give the username and password of your admin account and also 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. this is the method to install Zencart using a softaculous app installer.
Manual installation #
For manual installation of OSCommerce, you have to follow the following steps the steps are divided into 3 parts
- File configuration
- Database creation
- Store configuration
File configuration
Step1: go to the official website of Zencart and from the download section download the latest version of the software.
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 Zencart.
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 username and password of the user 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
Store configuration
Step1: go to the URL you are going to install Zencart you will see the welcome window from the Zencart installation
Step2: In the next step click on click here to go to the next step, in the next step ZenCart will check the system if it’s ok to install if there is any issue then it will give you a message regarding it otherwise click on continue.
Step3: Here you have to set up the system. Check the protocols of your store and also check the SSL certificate for your store and click on continue.
Step4: In the next step, you have to configure the database for your store which you created in the previous database creation section, give a username password for the database and also give the name to the database and click continue.
Step5: Here you have to create an admin account for your store give a username and password for the admin account also give the email id of the admin account, click continue.
Step6: in the last section you will get the message the installation is completed, and you will get the admin account link and also the front link of the store here.
theses are the 2 methods for installation of Zencart using a softaculous app installer and manual installation.