I need help installing ZenCart on our new VPS

Posted on October 10, 2013

can someone explain how to install ZenCart on our new VPS?

i installed the LAMP stack no problem.

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cinghaman

January 26, 2018

if someone else like me is following this article new file for wget is

wget https://excellmedia.dl.sourceforge.net/project/zencart/CURRENT - Zen Cart 1.5.x Series/zen-cart-v1.5.5e-03082017.zip

Do it directly in cd /var/www/html/ saves time

ahh, thanks

First, download the latest version of zencart

<pre>wget http://optimate.dl.sourceforge.net/project/zencart/CURRENT - Zen Cart 1.5.x Series/zen-cart-v1.5.1-full-fileset-09182012.zip</pre>

unzip and move to /var/www/ <pre>apt-get install zip unzip zen-cart-.zip -d /var/www/ mv /var/www/zen-cart- /var/www/zen-cart/</pre>

create MySQL db <pre>mysql -u root -p CREATE DATABASE zen; CREATE USER ‘zenuser’@‘localhost’ IDENTIFIED BY ‘yournewpassword’; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON zencart.* TO ‘zencartuser’@‘localhost’; FLUSH PRIVILEGES;</pre>

create Apache vhost https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-set-up-apache-virtual-hosts-on-ubuntu-12-04-lts , for instance <pre> ServerAdmin you@your.tld DocumentRoot /var/www/zen-cart/ ServerName your.tld ServerAlias www.your.tld ErrorLog logs/your.tld-error_log CustomLog logs/your.tld-access_log common</pre> restart Apache <code>service apache2 restart</code>

Prepare installer, change permissions (some folders and files need writable permissions for use in Zen Cart) <pre>cd /var/www/zen-cart/ mv admin/includes/dist-configure.php admin/includes/configure.php mv includes/dist-configure.php includes/configure.php chmod 777 admin/includes/configure.php chmod 777 includes/configure.php chmod 777 cache chmod 777 includes/languages/english/html_includes chmod 777 logs chmod 777 media chmod 777 pub chmod 777 images/ chmod 777 admin/backups chmod 777 admin/images/graphs</pre>

Go to http://your.tld/zc_install to complete the installation.

To finish, delete / dir & reset permissions /admin/includes/ /includes/ files to read-only mode 644. Rename /admin to something else. configure.phpand configure.phpof zc_installthe

You might stumble upon the following error: <pre>ERROR: date.timezone not set in php.ini. Please contact your hosting company to set the timezone in the server PHP configuration before continuing.</pre> fix it: <code>nano /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini</code> search for date, then set for example: <code>date.timezone = “Europe/Amsterdam”</code> Now save, close and restart your apache. <code>service apache2 restart</code>

Happy installing.