Make sure your site meets the minimum needs for a CRE Loaded 6 install - it should support PHP, and mySQL. Create a database for your store, or use the database designated by your hosting company. Download the distribution archive from our download area and decompress the file on your system. FTP the contents to your web site. If you intend for the cart to be your entire website, upload just the contents of the catalog directory. If you want to call it from a custom frontpage, you should upload the catalog directory and its entire contents. Set the permissions on catalog/includes/configure.php and catalog/admin/includes/configure.php to 777 (all read and write permissions must be set to 'on')

Once you have uploaded the site and set permissions, you should use your browser to call the install program. The URL will depend on what directory you uploaded the files in. If you used the catalog directory it would be http://www.com/catalog/install . Follow the directions. You will have to have your database user ID and password. Other values will be filled in with values detected by the install program. If in doubt about the 'persistant connections' setting, do not select it. Choose mysql for sessions. If you do not have a cert installed for SSL (or your Host doesn't provide you with SSL), do NOT select SSL support. Select YES when asked if you want to upload the test database. Follow the prompts and you should soon be up and running with a basic store that simply needs configuring to your particular needs and populatoin with your products in before you can open.

Set permissions on the configuration files you changed above to 444. You should change the permissions on other files and directories as follows

catalog/images chmod 666
catalog/templates/ chmod 666
catalog/admin/images chmod 666
catalog/includes/languages//mainpage.php chmod 666 (for each language in use)
admin/backups chmod 644
admin/images/graphs chmod 644


The default login for the Admin Tool is admin@localhost.com and the default password is admin. You'll need to set your name, email address, physical address and other parameters in the Store Configuration menu, setup a shipping and payment modules, and your tax structure at a minimum before you open. You will also want to set up your Tax structure. Your main page can be set via the Admin Tool - look in the Catalog menu and select Define Mainpage.

The default admin ID is admin@localhost.com, and the Default Password is Admin. This is documented in the distribution.

Almost certainly yes. The exception is that we will not patch your custom template directories. So, in creating a new design for your cart it is always best to create a new custom template just for your store. Keep in mind that a template is just that - a set of code for affecting the appearance of the store, not its basic functionality. A well behaved template restricts its code to the contents of its own directory within the template space. Any changes made by a template outside this space are subject to being overwritten without warning.