CS-Cart / MyJSAS

[s2pro]

Has anyone installed CS-Cart on a local (PC) using a stand alone server (WAMP) ?

I installed my license copy of CS-Cart using my PC and Joomla Stand Alone server (MyJSAS) http://jsas.joomlasolutions.com/ Apache/2.0.54, PHP/4.4.0, MySQL/4.1.14

I can not get the locally installed demo cart to fully work, the skins do not load and I can not get into the Admin area. But I can move around the shopping cart. The demo cart pictures are all scrambled too. Any help would be appreciated.

I am new to PHP shopping carts, I am use to ASP shopping carts that I can be configured and edit on my PC. I have to use a dial-up connection to the internet because of the rural area that I live in. This makes real time admin editing of my shopping cart very slow and difficult.

Users of other shopping carts (CubeCart) have installed Joomla Stand Alone server on thumb drives, PC’s, and Laptops for stand alone shopping cart configuration and editing.

If any of you CS-Cart’ers know how to use CS-Cart with MyJSAS could you explain how to set it up ???

Thanks,
s2pro

[sculptingstudio]

I just purchased CSC yesterday and installed it on my Windows XP workstation. I did notice the defaults for the directories were default to '\' in config.php. This caused an error because the backslash is escaping the squote. Making it a '/' fixed the problem. Instead of using localhost, I added my domain name to the hosts file. It is located in windows > system32 > drivers > etc. If you domain name is www.mytestcart.com, you would enter it like this below. Besure to restart apache.

# Copyright (c) 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 www.mytestcart.com


I still can't add products to my cart. There seems to be a missing template. I would be interested to know if you can add products. The version I downloaded is 1.3.3-sp2.

[lordmatrix]

s2pro, did you check XAMPP?
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html

Did not test CS-Cart with this great tool but it may work. Hope it helps.

[s2pro]

I finally got MyJSAS to work !!!

Thanks to the CS-Cart support desk for pointing out to me to use WinRAR to extract the files to my PC, not WinZIP. WinZIP corrupted the files that I originally extracted to my PC.

I then reloaded CS-Cart into MyJSAS and it works perfectly on my PC !!!

Thanks for the replies on this problem too. I did Install XAMPP, e-novative, and The Saint WAMP on my PC before I fixed this problem. I'm sure they all would probably work on my PC too. One disadvantage of them is that they all install as permanent services on my PC when ever I boot my computer.

MyJSAS does not do that, when you run MyJSAS its batch file creates a virtual drive "W" and runs the services on it. When you close MyJSAS, it deletes the virtual drive and those services.

I have not tried it yet, but using a USB thumb disk you can install your shopping cart and MyJSAS stand alone server as a separate portable dive. You can then bring up the whole shopping cart to test, edit, or demo on any desktop or laptop computer !!!

s2pro

[JesseLeeStringer]

All hail winrar... I had a similar problem a while ago.