Help Desk - Getting Started - Installation Requirements

With each main product license we provide product download and application files installation at NO charge. You are not left alone to install yourself.

Ongoing support is via browser/ftp, Virtual training (VNC), email and telephone. There is no programming or complex HTML coding required.

Please read the following carefully and if you have purchased a copy of our software - 'Thank You' and a programmer/installer will be contacting you shortly.

What are the system and hosting requirements for IMScart software?

The basic requirements are a server running PHP 4.1.0 or newer and MySQL 3.23 or newer.

Interaction with some payment processors require PHP with the curl library with SSL support and xml. If you want to use UPS live quotes, you must sign up at UPS and enter your Userid, Password and XML AccessID.

If you want to use USPS live quotes, you must sign up with USPS and enter your Userid and Password. For these you also need Perl installed with the XML::DOM module.

PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor)

PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.

• Cross-Platform Support.  PHP is available for almost any OS (except maybe for MacOS before OSX), and almost any web server.

Most web hosts offer PHP support and we assume that your server has activated support for PHP and that all files ending in .php are handled by PHP. On most servers, this is the default extension for PHP files, but ask your server administrator to be sure. If your server supports PHP, then you do not need to do anything.

MySQL database server

The MySQL database server is the world's most popular open source database. Over five million installations use MySQL to power high-volume Web sites and other critical business systems — including industry-leaders like The Associated Press, Yahoo, NASA, Sabre Holdings and Suzuki.

• Cross-Platform Support. MySQL is available on more than twenty different platforms including major Linux distributions, Mac OS X, UNIX and Microsoft Windows.

MySQL is an attractive alternative to higher-cost, more complex database technology. Its award-winning speed, scalability and reliability make it the right choice for corporate IT departments, Web developers and packaged software vendors.

We Require the following for the installation to start.

Please email the following details to install@imscart.com

• Website url:

• Website ftp:

• User ID:

• Password:

• MySQL*-database name (with the following permissions on the table: SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE, ALTER, INDEX, DROP)*

• MySQL database address

• MySQL-database username

• MySQL-database password

• We normally install under sub-directory /imscart (if you require different named sub-directory, please advise)

• Customer technical contact details
   

Contact webmaster@imscart.com with questions or problems with this set-up.