Professional Documents
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Install
Install
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INSTALL
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These instructions are for a manual installation using FTP, cPanel or other web
hosting Control Panel.
- Linux Install -
1. Upload all of the files and folders to your server from the "Upload" folder,
place them in your web root. The web root is different on some servers, cPanel it
should be public_html/ and on Plesk it should be httpdocs/.
3. For Linux/Unix make sure the following folders and files are writable.
4. Make sure you have installed a MySQL Database which has a user assigned to it
DO NOT USE YOUR ROOT USERNAME AND ROOT PASSWORD
6. You should be taken to the installer page. Follow the on screen instructions.
8. If you have downloaded the compiled version with a folder called "vendor" - this
should be uploaded above the webroot (so the same folder where the public_html or
httpdocs is)
- Windows Install -
1. Upload all the files and folders to your server from the "Upload" folder. This
can be to anywhere of your choice. e.g. /wwwroot/store or /wwwroot
3. For Windows make sure the following folders and files permissions allow Read and
Write.
system/storage/cache/
system/storage/download/
system/storage/logs/
system/storage/modification/
system/storage/session/
system/storage/upload/
system/storage/vendor/
image/
image/cache/
image/catalog/
config.php
admin/config.php
4. Make sure you have installed a MySQL Database which has a user assigned to it
DO NOT USE YOUR ROOT USERNAME AND ROOT PASSWORD
5. You should be taken to the installer page. Follow the on screen instructions.
- Local Install -
There are many all-in-one web servers out there and most of them should work with
OpenCart out of the box. Some examples...
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html
http://www.ampps.com/
http://www.usbwebserver.net
http://www.wampserver.com/en/
- Notes -
Godaddy Issues
If your hosting on godaddy you might need to rename the php.ini to user.ini
It seems godadddy has started changing the industry standard names of files.
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COMPOSER OR NOT TO COMPOSER
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From version 2.2 composer has been added to aid developers who want to use composer
libraries. 2 versions of OpenCart
will become available, one compiled and one non-compiled (composer.json only - no
files in vendor folder).
We STRONGLY advise leaving the vendor folder outside of the webroot - so files
cannot be accessed directly.
Composer installing is extremely simple - https://getcomposer.org