DATE POSTED : 20 \/01\/2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This topic will cover the step by step installation process of Zen Cart<\/strong> open source e-commerce platform in CentOS<\/strong> Linux operating systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Zen Cart<\/strong> is an easy to manage and popular shopping CMS platform, written in PHP server-side programming language <\/p>\n\n\n\n It is Deployed on top of LAMP<\/strong> stack that is mainly used to create online stores for advertising products and merchandises in today’s business life style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1.<\/strong> On the first step, log in to your server console and issue the following commands in order to install unzip<\/strong> and curl<\/strong> utilities in your system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2.<\/strong>you should also make sure you install the following PHP extensions required by Zen Cart e-commerce application by issuing the following command.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3 . After all required PHP modules and installed in your system, open default PHP configuration file specific to your Linux distribution and update the below PHP settings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Issue the below command according to your distribution to open and edit PHP configuration file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Search and replace the following PHP settings as shown in the below excerpt: 4.<\/strong> Restart Apache service<\/p>\n\n\n\n 5.<\/strong> Zen Cart e-commerce platform needs a RDBMS database to store application data. To create a Zen Cart<\/strong>database, log to MySQL server console and issue the below command to create Zen Cart database and the credentials needed to access the database.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Replace the database name, user and password variables with your own settings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 6.<\/strong> In order to install Zen Cart e-commerce application, first download<\/a> the latest Zen Cart<\/a> zip archive file in your system by issuing the below command.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 7.<\/strong> After Zen Cart zip file download finishes, issue the following commands to extract the zip archive and copy the installation files to web server document root path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 8.<\/strong> Next, issue the following command to grant Apache HTTP server full write permission to Zen Cart installation files from server\u2019s document root path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 9.<\/strong> Next, open a browser and navigate to your server IP address or domain name via HTTP protocol and hit in order to start the installation process of Zen Cart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thank you! for using PHEONIX SOLUTIONS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You find this tutorial helpful? 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Step 1: Install System Pre-Requirements for Zen Cart<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
# yum install unzip zip curl [On CentOS\/RHEL] <\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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# yum install epel-release
# yum install php-curl php-xml php-gd php-mbstring <\/pre>\n\n\n\n# nano \/etc\/php.ini [On CentOS\/RHEL]
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Visit the official PHP time zone list<\/a> in order to find the correct timezone according to your server geographical location. <\/p>\n\n\n\nfile_uploads = On
allow_url_fopen = On
memory_limit = 64M
upload_max_file_size = 64M
date.timezone = Indian<\/pre>\n\n\n\n# systemctl restart httpd [On CentOS\/RHEL] <\/pre>\n\n\n\n
# mysql -u root -p
MariaDB [(none)]><\/strong> create database zencart_shop;
MariaDB [(none)]><\/strong> grant all privileges on zencart_shop.* to 'your_user'@'localhost' identified by 'your_password';
MariaDB [(none)]><\/strong> flush privileges;
MariaDB [(none)]><\/strong> exit <\/pre>\n\n\n\nStep 2: Install Zen Cart in CentOS 7 <\/h3>\n\n\n\n
# wget https:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/zencart\/files\/CURRENT%20-%20Zen%20Cart%201.5.x%20Series\/zen-cart-v1.5.5e-03082017.zip \n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
# unzip zen-cart-v1.5.5e-03082017.zip\n# cp -rf zen-cart-v1.5.5e-03082017\/* \/var\/www\/html\/\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
# chown -R apache:apache \/var\/www\/html\/ [On CentOS\/RHEL] <\/pre>\n\n\n\n
http:\/\/your_domain.tld\/\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n