Install ZenCart 1.5.5a E-Commerce Shopping Cart on Windows 7 x64

Trabla: Install ZenCart 1.5.5a E-Commerce Shopping Cart on Windows 7 x64 localhost ( XAMPP 5.6.24 )

Zen Cart 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.Zen Cart branched from osCommerce as a separate project in 2003.

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

2. Download ZenCart 1.5.5a E-Commerce Shopping Cart sources from official site:
https://www.zen-cart.com

3. Create folder \zencart XAMPP htdocs folder
C:\xampp\htdocs\zencart
and copy all files from downloaded ZenCart 1.5.5a E-Commerce Shopping Cart  .zip source

4. Run XAMPP Control Panel 

- open php.ini file ( Apache ->  Config-> PHP(php.ini) )

- change max_execution_time value
from max_execution_time=30 to max_execution_time=600

- save  & close php.ini
- start Apache
- start Database

5. Open in browser following url to start  ZenCart 1.5.5a E-Commerce Shopping Cart
web installation

http://localhost/zencart

- click link "Click here" to begin installation

6.  "System Inspection" page of ZenCart 1.5.5a E-Commerce Shopping Cart web installation

- click "Continue" button

7.  "System Setup" page of ZenCart 1.5.5a E-Commerce Shopping Cart web installation

- scroll down
- click "Continue" button

8.  "Database Setup" page of ZenCart 1.5.5a E-Commerce Shopping Cart web installation

Now we need to create Database for ZenCart 1.5.5a E-Commerce Shopping Cart

1) Open phpMyAdmin in new browser tab (or window :) ) -

 http://localhost/phpmyadmin

2) Open SQL tab

3) Execute following query

CREATE DATABASE `zencart` 
DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;

CREATE USER 'zencart-owner'@'localhost'; 
CREATE USER 'zencart-owner'@'127.0.0.1';
CREATE USER 'zencart-owner'@'::1';

SET PASSWORD 
FOR 'zencart-owner'@'localhost' = PASSWORD('zencart123$%');
SET PASSWORD 
FOR 'zencart-owner'@'127.0.0.1' = PASSWORD('zencart123$%');
SET PASSWORD 
FOR 'zencart-owner'@'::1' = PASSWORD('zencart123$%');


GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON 
`zencart`.* TO 'zencart-owner'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON 
`zencart`.* TO 'zencart-owner'@'127.0.0.1' WITH GRANT OPTION;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON 
`zencart`.* TO 'zencart-owner'@'::1' WITH GRANT OPTION;

Go back  to ZenCart 1.5.5a E-Commerce Shopping Cart  installation page

- type Database User-  zencart-owner
- type Database Password - zencart123$%
- type Database Name -  zencart

- scroll down
- enable checkbox "Load demo data into this database"
- select SQL cache method e.g. "File"

- click "Continue" button

9. Creating database ...

10.  "Admin Setup" page of ZenCart 1.5.5a E-Commerce Shopping Cart web installation

- type your admin data
- remember ( note ) autogenerated admin password and admin folder

- click "Continue" button

11.  "Setup Finished" page of ZenCart 1.5.5a E-Commerce Shopping Cart web installation

- delete folder /zc_install/ in Windows Explorer

12.  Login as admin , use auto-generated password

- change old password to new

- "Initial setup wizard" page - type your data and click "Update"

Hooray !!! That's all !!! Enjoy ZenCart 1.5.5a E-Commerce Shopping Cart !!!