Using Zen Cart to make money online
“Using Zen Cart to make money online” is a paperback book
that covers every aspect of starting and running an online business with Zen Cart
This series of tutorials deals with installing Zen Cart. Later chapters will deal with configuring and customizing Zen Cart, including setting up your products ready for sale.
If you are concerned about the technicalities of running an e-commerce business to make money online then have a read of the next few guides. You will find that there are some minor technical challenges for a complete beginner. But they really are not too complicated. If you can follow the click by click instructions in the next few guides then you are more than capable of starting an online business and making money online.
Preparing to install Zen Cart
09 December 2009
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Taking the first practical steps towards making money online with an e-commerce business really is not that technical. The next few pages will prove it. These brief steps installing the Zen Cart shopping cart, will leave you with a working platform for selling your product range online. This section is possibly one of the most satisfying. In under an hour you will have a web shop! OK it won't be open for business right away but it is still significant progress.
Check-list so far: I am assuming a few things at this point:
- You have already chosen your business model and product niche?
- You have decided Zen Cart is the most appropriate shopping cart for YOU and not just landed on this page by accident?
- You have web hosting; either self-hosting or professional hosting
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Modifying your Zen Cart system files
17 December 2008
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Now you need to login to your 1and1 control panel to make some changes to the files you just uploaded, before starting the installation. Open a web browser and go to the 1&1 home page. In the top right of the page click on customer login. Type your domain name as the user name, then below type your password and hit enter.
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How to run the Zen Cart auto installer
17 December 2008
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Simply type in the url of your shop into a web browser. www.yourshop.whatever. You should see a screen like the one below.
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Creating & configuring your store database
17 December 2008
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Log in to your 1&1 control panel (In a new browser window). Scroll down until you see the icon labeled MySQL Administration, under the 'webspace & access' category of options. See picture below if you are unsure.
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Configuring the Zen Cart store information
17 December 2008
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Filling In The Store Information Settings. This information can be edited later but it makes sense to enter what we can now. So here is how to do it. As you usual a table of fields and values are below.
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After the installation
17 December 2008
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So that nobody else can make changes to the 2 critical files the install process has just configured, you now need to change the Octal numbers on 2 of the files you modified earlier.
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