Install OpenCart 2.3 E-Commerce Shopping Cart on Windows 7 localhost - Part 1/2

Trabla: Install OpenCart 2.3.0.2 E-Commerce Shopping Cart on Windows 7 x64 localhost ( XAMPP 5.6.24 ) - Part 1/2

OpenCart is an online store management system ( e-commerce shopping cart ). It is PHP-based, using a MySQL database and HTML components. Support is provided for numerous languages and currencies, and it is freely available under the GNU General Public License.

Solving - Part 1 ( Part 2 ):

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1. Download and install XAMPP 5.6.24 from official site:
https://www.apachefriends.org/download.html

2. Download OpenCart 2.3 E-Commerce Shopping Cart sources from official site:
http://www.opencart.com/

3. Create folder \opencart in XAMPP htdocs folder

C:\xampp\htdocs\opencart

and copy all files from downloaded OpenCart 2.3 E-Commerce Shopping Cart .zip source
( /upload folder !!!)

4. In folder C:\xampp\htdocs\opencart
rename file config-dist.php to config.php

5. In folder C:\xampp\htdocs\opencart\admin
rename file config-dist.php to config.php

6. Run XAMPP Control Panel 
- start Apache
- start Database

7. Open in browser following url to start  installation

http://localhost/opencart

"1/4 License agreement" page of  OpenCart 2.3 E-Commerce Shopping Cart web installation

- Click "Continue" button

8. "2/4 Pre-installation" page of OpenCart 2.3 E-Commerce Shopping Cart web installation

- scroll down
- click "Continue" button

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