How To: Install CS-Cart or Multi-Vendor via ConsoleΒΆ

Note

Tutorial Difficulty: 2 / 3

To install CS-Cart or Multi-Vendor via console, complete these steps:

  1. Download CS-Cart or Multi-Vendor from cs-cart.com.
  2. Put the downloaded archive into the web-accesible directory.
  3. Extract the archive.
  4. Open the config.php file in the install directory.
  5. Find the following code:
 return array(
 // Add-on names to be installed
 // If empty will be installed only addons included by default
 'addons' => array(),

 'cart_settings' => array (
     'email' => '[email protected]',
     'password' => 'admin',
     'secret_key' => 'YOURVERYSECRETCEY',
     'languages' => array (
         'en', 'da', 'de', 'es', 'fr', 'el', 'it', 'nl', 'ro', 'ru', 'bg', 'no', 'sl',
     ),
     'main_language' => 'en',
     'demo_catalog' => true,
     'theme_name' => 'basic',
     'license_number' => 'CART-1111-1111-1111-1111'
 ),
'database_settings' => array(
     'host' => 'localhost',
     'name' => '%DB_NAME%',
     'user' => '%DB_USER%',
     'password' => '%DB_PASS%',
     'table_prefix' => 'cscart_',
     'database_backend' => 'mysqli',
     'notify' => false,
     'allow_override' => 'Y',
 ),
 'server_settings' => array (
     'http_host' => '%HTTP_HOST%',
     'http_path' => '',
     'https_host' => '%HTTP_HOST%',
     'https_path' => '',
     'correct_permissions' => true,
 ),
 );
  1. Replace the values of the variables in the code above with your values. To do this, replace the example values (admin@example.com, admin, etc.) between the ‘ ‘ simbols with the administrator’s e-mail, password, etc.

Note

If you want to install the Trial or Free version of CS-Cart, leave the ‘license number’ field empty.

  1. Set the proper file permissions.
  • On a UNIX-based server, run the following commands one by one:
chmod 666 config.local.php
chmod -R 777 design images var
find design -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 666
find images -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 666
find var -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 666
  • On a Windows-based server, you may need to give full permissions for the files and directories to the user with the IUSER_ComputerName account.
  1. In a console terminal open the install directory and run the following comand:
php index.php

The standard installation process will be launched.

Learn more about setting permissions, extracting an archive, choosing the installation directory, etc. in other installation scenarios.