Zen Cart™ Installation and Setup Instructions

Server Requirements

  • PHP 5 or later (must not be running in safe mode)
  • MySQL 5 or later
  • phpMyAdmin (recommended)
  • FTP access
  • chmod access

 

Files

Unzip all of the files to a folder on your hard drive.

 

Zen Cart Database

Create a MySQL database named "zen" using the using the MySQL command interface, or the MySQL section of your CPanel.  Note: On servers using CPanel, the actual name of the database will include your CPanel user name, i.e. {cpanelusername}_zen.  Create a user-named "zen" and assign a strong password. Note: On servers using CPanel, the actual name of the database user will include your CPanel user name, i.e. {cpanelusername}_zen. Note: GoDaddy does not use a prefix for the database name and the user name is the same as the database name.  You will also need to change your server from localhost to something like mybzenb.db.7571864.hostedresource.com where myzendb is the name of your GoDaddy-hosted Zen Cart database.  Assign the new user to the new database with full permissions.

Run the SQL commands in SQL/zen_database.sql to populate the "zen" database.  You can use the MySQL command interface, or phpMyAdmin.

Open shoppingcart/includes/configure.php with a text editor. Modify the value for DB_SERVER_PASSWORD to match what you created above.

Open shoppingcart/manage5678/includes/configure.php with a text editor. Modify the value for DB_SERVER_PASSWORD to match what you created above.

 

Zen Cart_Art Gallery Management Database Connection (optional)

Open connect/db_connect_2.php with a text editor. Modify the values for $database, $db_username, and $password to match what you created above for the Zen Cart database.

 

Program Files

FTP all files except the "SQL" folder to the web root folder on your site (usually public_html, www or htdocs).  Note: The permissions of the files should be set to 0644, and the folders should be set to 0755.  If you are planning on using the Zen Shopping Cart plugin, set shoppingcart/includes/configure.php and shoppingcart/manage5678/includes/configure.php to 0444.