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This guide will help you pass through the OpenCart installation procedure and run a fully working OpenCart website on your server. Feel free to check the OpenCart template description<\/a> and the official website<\/a> to learn more about OpenCart.<\/p>\r\n The first and the most important things you need to start your website is web hosting and domain name. <\/p>\r\n There is a huge amount of domain and hosting offers over the internet from different hosting companies. Unfortunately the web hosting market has various fraud offers that can harm your business. We recommend you to be careful in choosing a hosting provider and gather as much information as possible before ordering. <\/p>\r\n Before you can start setting up your OpenCart website please make sure that you and your hosting server is fully prepared for OpenCart.<\/p>\r\n Open the OpenCart official website at http:\/\/www.opencart.com<\/a> and check the OpenCart requirements<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n This is the list of features and requirements that your hosting server should fit. <\/p>\r\n We recommend you to contact your hosting provider to learn if you can host OpenCart on their hosting server.<\/p>\r\n Some hosting companies offer automatic OpenCart engine installation from the hosting control panel. You can use this option in case the offered OpenCart version fits the OpenCart template requirements.<\/p>\r\n If your template is going to be customized by a third party developer or you are willing to order the template installation from http:\/\/www.templatetuning.com<\/a> you can skip this step.<\/p>\r\n Otherwise, if you are willing to customize the template yourself, please make sure you have all required programs installed on your computer. You can check the template preview page to see the template software requirements. Usually you need the following programs to edit the template:<\/p>\r\n The first application you need is a archive manager, the software that can extract the files from the password protected template package.<\/p>\r\n Both archive managers have free trial versions available for download so you can use them.<\/p>\r\n Note that the above Adobe applications are required for the template customization, in other words you need them if you want to change the template design, layout and functionality. If you are fine with the template and want only to install it and change content you don’t need any specific software.<\/p>\r\n You may also need an FTP manager to upload the files to your hosting server (in case your hosting control panel doesn’t have any). You can use any FTP manager like FileZilla<\/strong>, CuteFTP<\/strong>, TotalCommander<\/strong> etc<\/p>\r\n<\/dd>\r\n When you are done with the preparations you can start downloading the OpenCart files to your computer.<\/p>\r\n After the template purchase you got an e-mail with the link to the purchase details page. There you can see your order details and download the template using the Download<\/strong> button. The template is provided as a ZIP<\/strong> file. Download it to your computer and save it.<\/p>\r\n When you are done with the downloading you need to extract the files template package.<\/p>\r\n The template package contains the password protected sources_XXXX.zip<\/strong> file. It countains the template source files and could be extracted only WinZip<\/strong> or StuffitExpander<\/strong>.<\/p>\r\n The following tutorials will show you how to extract files on Windows(WinZip)<\/strong> and MAC(StuffitExpander)<\/strong>.<\/p>\r\n After extracting the files you need to upload the OpenCart files and folders to your hosting server. There are seven folders included to the newly released template packages:<\/p>\r\n Depending on your template number, the structure may look different. For example, like the structure of the Opencart free sample template:<\/p>\r\n The only difference between them is the presence of the themeXXX(full).zip <\/strong>file in the lately released templates. <\/p>\r\n There are several ways on how to proceed after you extracted the files. You need to choose the one that fits your current situation:<\/p>\r\n You have a working OpenCart website that has the same version as the template you purchased and you only need to change its skin<\/<\/p>\r\n To do this, you need to upload the content<\/strong> of the themeXXX.zip\/themeXXX(update).zip (<\/strong>that is “admin”, “catalog” <\/strong>and “image”<\/strong> folders) <\/strong> to the folder on your FTP where your OpenCart files are stored, like PUBLIC_HTML, WWW etc. <\/strong><\/p>\r\n If you don’t have such directories on your hosting server, please contact your hosting and specify where to upload the website files. The way you are going to upload the files is mainly up to you. <\/p>\r\n Such instructions should be provided by your host company. For additional information you may refer to our tutorial on uploading files to server:<\/p>\r\n Your template package may include (depends on the template number) an unzip.php file that helps you unzip the zipped folder on your server.<\/p>\r\n More information on how to use this file may be obtailed from the template documentation. If the folder you’ve chosen for uploading the files is correct, you will be prompted to replace the existing folders and agree to this.<\/strong> Once the necessary files are uploaded, you need to proceed to this tutorial:\r\n OpenCart. How to install OpenCart engine and a template (using “fullpackage”)<\/a><\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n It will allow you to install both OpenCart and the template at one time since the package has both of them already included.<\/p>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n To upload and install the engine, please use our tutorial <\/p>\r\n Once the engine is installed, you will need to upload and install the template using another tutorial: <\/p>\r\n This step should be followed only if you want to have the same sample products as you see on the live demo on your template, i.e. to make your template look exactly as its preview\/live demo page. For this purpose each template comes with a sample .sql file included to the “sources” <\/strong>folder. The “sources” comes password protected, so you will need to unzip it first using your order ID as the password. <\/p>\r\n The SQL file should be imported into your database using your database management tool (usually phpMyAdmin). For more information on how to import it, you need to refer to our tutorial <\/p>\r\n Please make sure to back-up your store database and files before sample data import.<\/p>\r\n<\/dd>\r\n OpenCart is a multifunctional, light and user friendly e-commerce solution with attractive look. It’s a perfect solution for your online store. The default package contains all modules and extensions for successful sales. 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OpenCart Quick Start Guide. Downloading<\/h3>\r\n<\/dt>\r\n
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OpenCart Quick Start Guide. Extracting<\/h3>\r\n<\/dt>\r\n
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OpenCart Quick Start Guide. Uploading&Installing<\/h3>\r\n<\/dt>\r\n
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You have a working OpenCart website<\/h3>\r\n
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You have not yet installed OpenCart<\/h3>\r\n
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OpenCart Quick Start Guide. Sample Data Installation<\/h3>\r\n<\/dt>\r\n
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