Installation

We have comprehensive installation guides available for download from our website –

http://quickstart.vpcart.com/

VPCART 8.00 comes with an “easy-to-install” wizard to help you set up your shopping cart site. You will first need to upload the files to your hosting and follow the step-by-step installation guide.

To start running your VPCART installation, please go to: default.htm
So if you are running from your domain,for example, www.yourdomain.com, then just go to this page for the first time: www.yourdomain.com/default.htm

From there, you can select to Install for the First Time or Upgrade an Existing Site.

Click the button “Enter set-up” if you are ready to run the installation.

There are about eight steps in the installation of VPCART 8.00.Each will be explained in further detail below:

STEP 1: Verify Folder Permission

Some of the folders in VPCART need to have read/write permission. This step will automatically check the required folders to have read/write permission. Once you are ready, please click the “Click here to check your folder permissions”button.

Folders that have read/write permission will be displayed with a “Pass”status.
Folders that do not have read/write permission will be displayed with a “Fail”status.
If one of your folders appears to have “Fail” status, please enable read/write permission to the folder. You may need to contact your hosting provider to do this for you.

You only need to update the Required folders now when installing.

Please click the “Check your folder permissions” button once you have set the read/write permission to your folders.

If all the folders have a “Pass” status, you can click the “Continue to connect to database” button that is visible to you.

STEP 2 : Connect To Database

This step basically needs you to choose which database you will use in your VPCART site.

You can choose one of the following supported databases:

-    Access

-    ODBC

-    MySQL 351

-    MySQL 510

-    MsSQL 2000

-    MsSQL 2005 & above

If you are using Access, you need to enter your desired database name. You can enter any db name for this, and make sure it is not a common name for security reasons.

If you are using DSN, you can enter the DSN Name in the text box, e.g. yourDsnName.

If you are using SQL SERVER or MySQL, you need to enter the following details:

-    Database Name  

-    Database User ID  

-    Database Password 

-    Database Address

For SQL SERVER and MYSQL database, you need to create the database with the details you have specified above, so that VPCART can recognize and connect to the database.

Click “Check database” once you are ready to check if your database exists or not.

If the db exists, the “Continue to Setup Database Structure” button will be visible and you can click to proceed to next step.

STEP 3: Setup Database Structure

In this step, you can choose to generate demo data or not. This is useful if you want to do testing in your VPCART site before going live.

Choose Yes if you want to generate demo data, or No if you don’t want to.

Click “Generate” to start generating the demo data.

Once it is done, the “Continue to Create Admin Password” button will be visible and you can click it to proceed to the next step.

STEP 4: Create Admin Password

This step will create an admin user name, admin password and admin second password.

Admin user name, admin password, admin second password needs to contain at least 5 alphanumeric (a-z, A-Z, 0-9) characters.

Please note that Admin user name cannot be the same with admin password and admin second password.

Also, admin password cannot be same with admin second password.

Do this for security reasons.

Please enter all the admin details you want, and click “Update Admin Information”.
If the details you have entered are valid, the “Continue to Rename Admin Page” button will appear. Click the button to proceed to the next step.

STEP 5: Rename Admin Page
This step will rename the admin default page shopadmin.asp to the file name you specified.
Please enter your own admin page and make sure the page name is not a common name.

For example, we do not recommend you to create a name like admin or login, for example.

You can create the page name with combination of alphanumeric characters e.g. jacksyte87635.
Click “Rename Admin Page” once you have entered the name.

Click “Continue to Create Encryption Key” to proceed to the next step.

STEP 6: Create Encryption Key

This step will create encryption key for you VPCART site.
Encryption key is a unique set of characters used to scramble customer credit card information.

Make sure you enter a 10+ character encryption key.
Click “Update Encryption Key” to update and check if the data you entered is valid or not.

If valid, the “Continue to Cart Details” button will be visible. Click it to proceed to the next step.

STEP 7: Cart Details

In this step, you need to enter all of your cart details for the site.

Here is the list of fields you need to provide:

-    Email address : After an order has been completed, who should be notified? This is the email address of that person. This is also what you will see in the FROM address for the order confirmation sent to the customer.

-    Shop Name: The name of your shop. Used on emails to the customer as the name of the sender.

-    Email Subject: This is simply the subject when the customer gets an email confirmation.

-    Mail Server: This is the name of the mail service on your ISP. Your ISP will need to let you know what this is. It normally will start with mailor smtp. There is no standard name. You must ask your Windows administrator or Web hosting company. If not set correctly, emails will not be sent. Not used with CDONTS or Unix.

-    Mail User ID: If your ISP is using a user ID for mail service, enter the value here or leave empty if not.

-    Mail Password: If your ISP is using a password for mail service, enter the value here or leave empty if not.

-    Mail Type: The type of email interface program to use. VPCART supports ASPMAIL, CDONTS, ASPEMAIL, OCXMAIL and JMAIL. VPCART does not write to your mail system directly. It needs an interface and these are the most common ones.

-    Home Page: The URL to return to your main page. It can be a full URL such as http:..or just a file name such as default.htm.

-    Default Title: The default title for your shopping cart site; e.g. Johny Instrumental Shop.

In this step, you can also perfom a test for Mail Component. Click the link “Test Mail Component” to see any available mail components for your hosting. Mail components with “Available” status can be selected as a value for Mail Type.

Click “Update Cart Details” if all done and click the “Continue to Register Your Product” button to proceed to the next step.

STEP 8: Register Your Product

This step will register your purchase of VPCART and your information details.

Please provide the following details in the form:

-    Order Number : Your VPCART Order Number.

-    Shop ID : An unique name for your shop - eg. "shop700_myshopname"

-    Domain : This represents the URL of your site where the shopping cart files are located (eg. http://www.yourvpaspwebsiteurl.com/vpasp)

-    SSL : This is your secure URL to which credit card information is encrypted.

-    Company Name : Your company / shop name

-    Address : Your company / shop address

-    City : Your city

-    State : Your state

-    Zip Code : Your zip code

-    Country : Your country

-    Phone : Your phone number

-    Fax : Your Fax number

-    Email : Your email address

Click “Update Information” after you have entered all the details.

Click “Continue to end” to end the installation process and start browsing your site.