Now that you can rest easy, safe in the knowledge that you are backed by an entire community’s worth of information and resources, it is time to try out osCommerce for real. Most likely, this section should present little to no difficulty whatsoever because osCommerce now comes as part and parcel of many hosting packages. If you haven’t already purchased a hosting package then you might want to ask around in order to find one that supports osCommerce by default.
Of course, I would be remiss if I didn’t cover how to set everything up properly from start to finish and, to this end, this chapter will cover the following topics:
Your Site’s Basic Requirements
Downloading osCommerce
Transferring osCommerce to your Live Site
Making sure the host is ready
Installing and configuring osCommerce
Troubleshooting
That’s a fair amount of material to cover but you should not feel overwhelmed by this because it is generally in a software producer’s best interest to make it as...