OpenCart Tutorial - Installation

Introduction to OpenCart

Hi everyone, welcome back to the OpenCart tutorial. In this video, we are going to learn about installation of OpenCart.

OpenCart is a free open source e-commerce platform for online merchants. It provides a professional and reliable foundation from which to build a successful online store. OpenCart combines flexibility, simplicity, and multi-functionality.

All right, so let's start to install the OpenCart on Windows. Okay?

Creating the Project Folder

I'm just going to install OpenCart on XAMPP. XAMPP is already installed in my computer, so just open my computer first. And simply open C drive. And inside C drive, just click on XAMPP folder. Then htdocs.

And inside the htdocs folder, just create a new folder. Let's say folder name is OpenCart Pro. All right. This folder.

Downloading and Extracting OpenCart Files

Now switch to the browser. And just go to the opencart.com. Okay? And here, free download, just click on this link.

And for downloading the OpenCart, just click on this link, download now. All right, downloading has started. OpenCart current version is 3.0.3.6. All right?

All right, now it's downloaded. So just click on this icon. And now right click. Then extract file. All right, now go to the project directory. Which is C drive, XAMPP, htdocs and OpenCart Pro. Okay? Now copy this URL. And go to the WinRAR. And here, just paste the URL. And just click on okay.

Now it's extracting the zip file into the project directory. You can see here.

Preparing and Configuring Project Files

All right. Now just select these files and remove this. And just open upload folder. And control A for selecting all, and control X for cut. And here just paste here. All right?

Now just rename this file config-dist.php with config.php. All right? Now open admin folder. And here also rename config-dist with config.php. All right?

Starting the Installation Wizard

Now switch to the browser. And just open new tab. And here, type localhost/OpenCart Pro. Okay?

All right, this is the OpenCart installation page. Now just click on continue. All are green. It means all good. Okay, now click on continue.

Creating the Database in phpMyAdmin

All right, now open new tab. And here just type localhost/phpmyadmin. And here, just click on new. Creating new database. And here, just type database name, which is OpenCart Pro DB. Okay? Now click on create.

Now database has been created. So just copy this database name.

Finalizing Installation and Admin Setup

And switch to the installation page. And here, hostname localhost, username root. Password in my case, this is a blank. And database name which is OpenCart Pro DB. Okay?

Now set the username, password, and email address. Okay? Uh username admin, and password let's say ad@ this. Okay? This is my password for the admin login. Now enter here the email ID. Let's say this is the email ID. Okay? Now just click on continue.

Post-Installation Cleanup and Verification

All right, now the installation has been completed. So this is the message, don't forget to delete your installation directory. So for that deleting the installation directory, switch to the project folder. And here, just remove this directory. Okay? So select and right click. And just click on delete. Okay? Now install folder has been deleted.

Now switch to the browser and refresh the page. Okay. All right, now just go to the URL localhost/OpenCartPro. Okay, you can see here the OpenCart website is stored. All right?

For admin login, just type here /admin. And here, just type the username, which was admin. And password is adm@7890. Okay, now click on login. Password. All right.

Now just close this. And you can see here, this is the OpenCart admin panel. And from here you can see the your store. So just click on profile icon. And click on this link, your store. And you can see here the store. Okay?

Conclusion

So in this way, you can install OpenCart on Windows. So that's all about OpenCart installation. So thanks for watching this video. And if you still have any kind of question, you can ask me in the comment box. Don't forget to subscribe my channel. Thanks for watching.