is an e-commerce web application, open source (Open Source) that lets you mount a virtual store in question minutes.
consists mainly of two parts the front and the back-end, ie the part that all persons are accessing the site, the store itself, and the administration, where you can keep your own virtual store, updating products, inserting new offers, categories, languages, currencies, view orders, customers .. and at no cost by the seller and without any programming knowledge.
begins to develop in 2000 and has evolved and expanded into e-commerce solution GPL most widely used today. There are thousands of online stores based on osCommerce, and even alternative versions have been developed to Oscommerce as Zencart, osCPro, etc, each of which is to take different development paths, but always based on the original software Oscommerce.
Requirements for Installing OsCommerce
must be installed on a web server, either locally or remotely, the hotel where we will install our Oscommerce must meet the following requirements :
- PHP: We must have PHP installed and enabled on the web server. It is recommended that at least the version 5.x or later to avoid problems with the latest contributions available on the official web oscommerce. .
- MySQL: is the database engine which runs natively Oscommerce. Preferably we use a version 5.x or higher.
- phpMyAdmin: is the web interface to control MySQL databases. For ease of handling and because it is surely you offer any hosting, is best placed to start.
- APACHE: The recommended web server for Oscommerce, although it may work in others as Cherokee or ISS, but may need to be configured properly to work properly Oscommerce them.
For those who do not want to complicate your life, there are software packages that install all the components web server directly into the computer and pre-configured automatically.
As we users of an operating system or another we will have different options:
- Mac: MAMP or XAMPP .
- Windows: WAMP, EasyPHP, or XAMPP.
- Linux XAMPP .
In previous publications already explained step by step how to install MAMP XAMP and so pass directly to install OsCommerce.
1 .- OsCommerce must be downloaded from the official page http://www.oscommerce.com / solution / downloads.
2 .- Then we went to the web folder (user / web) and drag the folder "oscommerce" within it.
3 .- Once this is done create a new folder in my case, appoints "store" and in it copy the folder "catalog" found in "oscommerce".
4 .- After we open our browser of choice and put the following address: ; http://localhost/oscommerce/tienda/ catalog folder appears to us and we click and the installation appears to us automatically. Select continue.
5 .- When configuring the database server name put "localhost", user name is "root" and also put the password "root."
Before the name of the database go to "phpmyadmin" to create a database in this case engage his "store."
returned to the facility and put the name of the database just created. Select continue.
6 .- then tells us the name of the website. Select continue.
7 .- continue with the settings of the online store, in the name you put in this case "store", the name of administrator Shop where you'll "Marco", add an email, and finally in name and administrator password is "admin". Select continue.
8 .- Finally he says that the installation and setup has completed successfully and shows us the catalog and administrative tools, select the catalog and leads to what is the store.
If we are to administration, the screen appears to us where we need to insert the name and password you previously defined to enter.
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