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Zen Cart® was the first Open Source e-Commerce web application to be fully PA-DSS Certified (starting with v1.5.0). The latest stable version is currently v1.5.4 and also carries PA-DSS certification.
Zen Cart® v1.6.0 brings improved templating and responsive design, in addition to increased flexibility for customizing to each storeowner's own preferences.
It's free software, with free support available 24/7 on the Zen Cart® Support Site forums at https://www.zen-cart.com/forum.php provided by our enthusiastic community of actual Zen Cart® users, integrators, and the developers themselves.
Download Latest Official Zen Cart® Release
or Download latest in-development version from github
Zen Cart® requires you to provide your own webserver (shared or dedicated/VPS), with a standard LAMP stack (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP)
- Compatible with PHP 5.4 thru PHP 5.6, and PHP 7
- Compatible with MySQL 5.1 to 5.7, via the PHP mysqli client
- CURL (via PHP) is used to communication with payment/shipping services
- Compatible with with Apache 2.2, (or Apache 2.4 with the backward-compatibility mode enabled for v2.2 .htaccess rules support.)
- Recommended Apache modules include: expires, headers, env, alias, deflate, ssl, mime, php5, rewrite (in addition to other common modules)
Zen Cart® "can" run on IIS, but with some limitations, namely the need to manually secure various folders with IIS equivalents to .htaccess rules.
Installation is simple:
- Download Zen Cart®
- Ensure you check that the md5/sha1 hash of the Zip matches those publicly posted.
- The md5/sha1 values for verifying the zip files hosted at Sourceforge are displayed on the Zen Cart® website along with instructions on how to verify the file using the hash values.
- Unzip the downloaded zip file
- Everything inside the folder you unzipped needs to be uploaded to your webserver … for example, into your public_html or www or html folder (the folder will already exist on your webserver)
- In your browser, enter the address to your site, such as:
www.your_site.com
(or if you uploaded it into another foldername usewww.your_site.com/foldername
) - Rename the
/includes/dist-configure.php
and/admin/includes/dist-configure.php
files toconfigure.php
and make the files writable (so the install process can write your configuration information into them after you answer a few questions in the following steps). - Also make the
/cache
and/logs
folders writable. (You will be prompted about making other folders writable during installation) - Follow the instructions that appear in your browser for installation.
That's the abbreviated version of installation instructions!
For a MUCH more detailed set of installation instructions, see the /docs/1.readme_installation.html file in your Zen Cart files.
The Implementation Guide should be followed for PCI Compliant implementation.
Use your browser to open the /docs/index.html page for links to documentation and the Implementation Guide.
For free support, visit our support site: https://www.zen-cart.com/forum.php
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