Doteasy Tutorials - Scripting
Setting up osCommerce 2.2
osCommerce is an online shop e-commerce solution developed by the open source
community. Its feature packed out-of-the-box installation allows store owners
to setup, run, and maintain their online stores with minimum effort and with
absolutely no costs or license fees involved. It also include support for many
popular payment gateways and alternative payment methods.
This tutorial will guide you through the osCommerce setup and installation
process on our servers. It is assumed that your account has support for PHP
and MySQL database and that you have already created your database.
To protect your customer information, it is highly recommended that you also
have an SSL certificate for data encryption.
Click here for more info on SSL certificates.
Contact Doteasy to purchase
your SSL certificate today.
Part A - Downloading the Script
Download
our customized version of the osCommerce 2.2 script. It has been modifed to
be compatible with our servers. Click here.
The
osCommerce distribution file that you will download is in .zip compressed format.
Unpack this archive in a temporary directory on your computer using decompression
software.
Part B - Uploading Files to Server
Before
you begin, please ensure that you have created your MySQL database on your web
server via your Site Administration Panel. View the database
creation tutorial.
If your MySQL database is already created, you are ready to upload osCommerce files to the server.
Start your FTP software and connect to your web server
From your osCommerce unpacked files, upload the entire folder and contents
of the /catalog folder to the /var/www/html/
location on your server.
Part C - Software Configuration
Access
the osCommerce configuration script with your web browser, http://www.yourdomain.com/catalog/install
(Replace yourdomain.com with your domain name)
Click Install.
Please customize the new installation with the following options:
Please enter the database server information:
| Database Server: |
127.0.0.1 |
| Username: |
Doteasy
memberID |
| Password: |
database
password |
| Database Name: |
database
name eg, yourdomain_com_-_db |
| Persistent Connections: |
Uncheck |
| Session Storage: |
Select Database |
|
|
|
A test connection made to the database was successful. Click Continue
The database import was successful! Click Continue
Please enter the web server information:
| WWW Address: |
http://www.yourdomain.com
(Replace yourdomain.com with
your domain) |
| Webserver Root Directory: |
/var/www/html/catalog/ |
| HTTP Cookie Domain: |
www.yourdomain.com |
| HTTP Cookie Path: |
/catalog/ |
| Enable SSL Connections: |
check
(more info on SSL)
|
|
|
|
Click Continue.
Please enter the secure web server information:
| Secure WWW Address: |
https://www.yourdomain.com
(Replace yourdomain.com with
your domain)
(more info on SSL)
|
| Secure Cookie Domain: |
www.yourdomain.com |
| Secure Cookie Path: |
/catalog/ |
|
|
|
Click Continue.
Click Continue to confirm.
Configuration should be successful.
Part D - Security
Your
installation directory is located at: /var/www/html/catalog/install. Using
your FTP software, please remove this entire directory for security reasons
as it is no longer needed.
Change
file permission for the file configure.php, located at /var/www/html/catalog/includes/configure.php
to 4-4-4 or:
- Owner: Allow Read only
- Group: Allow Read only
- Others: Allow Read only
To change file permissions using CuteFTP, select the file by clicking on it
once on the remote system side and then right-click on the file to bring up
the option menu and select CHMOD.
To assign the correct file permissions under Owner check Read, under Group
check Read, and under Other check Read . The manual value of the permission
is 4-4-4.
Use
your server Password Protected Directories function to protect your shopping
cart admin page. Login to your Site Administration Panel. In the shortcuts area,
click Protect Directories (File Manager section).
If you have not done so already, create an HTAccess group, then specify the
user or users who belong to the group. You need to create at least one group
and add at least one user to that group before you can protect a directory.
Click Manage Groups.
Enter Group name and click ADD.
Click Manage Users.
Enter UserName, Password, select group and click Add/Edit.
Click Protect Directories.
Select the directory or folder that you would like to protect. For osCommerce
users you need to protect /var/www/html/catalog/admin/. Click 
.
In the AuthName field, enter 'osCommerce Admin' as the descriptive name
for the directory. Click Protect.
An 'X' will appear on the lock icon and the folder is now protected.
Part E - Email Address Configuration
Login
to Doteasy Webmail to view your email server host name. After you login to Webmail,
the URL address of the Webmail connection will display your email server host
name. In this example the email server host name is dpmail01.doteasy.com. Once
you have found the host name, you may logout of Webmail and close your browser.
Access
your osCommerce admin control panel at http://www.yourdomain.com/catalog/admin.
(Replace yourdomain.com with your domain)
Click Configuration.
Select
to configure E-mail Address.
Click
Edit.
Specify
the recipient email address using the following format and replace dpmail01.doteasy.com
with your mail server name:
userID%yourdomain.com@dpmail01.doteasy.com
Click update.
Your osCommerce setup is now complete.
View your shopping cart at: http://www.yourdomain.com/catalog
Access your osCommerce Admin Panel at: http://www.yourdomain.com/catalog/admin
(Replace yourdomain.com with your domain name)
For more information on osCommerce please visit the osCommerce Community Support:
http://www.oscommerce.com/community.php/
