Thread: help with oscommerce

I am stuck, I am a novice when it comes to setup a shopping cart, I went to fantastio and installed oscommerce, now I don't what to do, What do I do after installing. Do I have to unzip any files? or what I thught it would be easier than it is.

Thanks for the help
mrl51

how many productd do u want to sell and what country is your main target market?

Originally Posted by VodaHost

how many productd do u want to sell and what country is your main target market?

Thank you for replying! I will be selling under around 200 items and my target market is U.S. and Canada

Thank you
mrl51

Originally Posted by mrl51

I am stuck, I am a novice when it comes to setup a shopping cart, I went to fantastio and installed oscommerce, now I don't what to do, What do I do after installing. Do I have to unzip any files? or what I thught it would be easier than it is.

Thanks for the help
mrl51

When you install it it'll give you links to the page, one link is for the main page that you can link to from your site, and the other link is for admin access. The installer offer you to send a email to your email box with all the information to get started. If you didn't take this information down then just go back and hit oscommerance to uninstall it, then reinstall it. It auto installs to your public_html folder, it has an option for a new folder name when your installing this. I would suggest doing this to keep your public_html organized. Just put in shop or store and it'll install into a folder by that name inside your public_html folder.

I hope this helps you out, I havn't set my store up yet but it looked easy to do from the admin menu. Well have fun and let me know if you need more help.


GD13,

Originally Posted by GoldDraco13

When you install it it'll give you links to the page, one link is for the main page that you can link to from your site, and the other link is for admin access. The installer offer you to send a email to your email box with all the information to get started. If you didn't take this information down then just go back and hit oscommerance to uninstall it, then reinstall it. It auto installs to your public_html folder, it has an option for a new folder name when your installing this. I would suggest doing this to keep your public_html organized. Just put in shop or store and it'll install into a folder by that name inside your public_html folder.

I hope this helps you out, I havn't set my store up yet but it looked easy to do from the admin menu. Well have fun and let me know if you need more help.


GD13,

Thank you for the help I will try that!