Boss Cart Premium server installation requirements

One of the questions we get asked quite frequently at Boss Cart is “What is the minimum server installation requirement for installing Boss Cart Premium”. We hope this post will answer your questions, of course we love hearing from Boss Cart users, even after reading this, if you still have questions about installing Boss Cart, please contact us and we will be very pleased to answer your questions.

Boss Cart Premium runs on all major server platforms including Linux, Unix and Windows operating system provided PHP and MySQL is installed on the Windows or Linux server. For those using Windows, please pay particular attention to the additional Windows requirement at the bottom of this post.

Linux, Unix and Windows server requirements

• PHP4 or higher version of PHP such as PHP5.
• Safe mode needs to be turned off ( safe_mode can be disabled from your server php.ini file).
• SQL safe mode should be disabled (sql.safe_mode can be disabled from php.ini)
• File uploads enabled (enable file_uploads from php.ini)
• ini_set should be enabled from php.ini
• Server name , database name , database username and database password.
• GD Library functions should be enabled. ( uncomment extension=php_gd2.dll from php.ini)
• Rewrite Engine Enabled (uncomment LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so in httpd.conf)
• mail() function should be enabled
• SMTP server for sending emails.
• post_max_size should be 60 MB to allow for large file upload.
• upload_max_filesize should be 60 MB to allow for large files.
• An HTTPS module (like Net::SSLeay perl module, CURL executable, OpenSSL executable or libCURL PHP extension) for some of the online credit card processing modules ).

Your will need one of the following browsers

We have tested Boss Cart Premium with the web browsers below:

• IE-6
• IE-7
• Mozilla Firefox
• Opera
• Safari

Windows specific requirements

Windows must have Apache and MySQL server installed. Boss Cart Premium does not work with Windows native server IIS nore Microsoft SQL server.

For Cache Control Header the following lines of code in the httpd.conf file must be uncommented.

• LoadModule cache_module modules/mod_cache.so
• LoadModule headers_module modules/mod_headers.so
• LoadModule expires_module modules/mod_expires.so

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