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System requirements

Below requirements are given for latest X-Cart v4.4.0. For older versions please refer to the README file in the distribution package.

1. Browsers

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8
Mozilla FireFox 2.0, 3.0 and 3.1
Opera 9.6
Apple Safari 2.0, 3.0 and 3.2
Google Chrome 1 and 2
Mozilla for FreeBSD/Linux 1.8
JavaScript and Cookies should be enabled for backend pages
Screen resolution: 1024x768 or above

2. Server

Required:

Any web server compatible with PHP (Apache, IIS, nginx, LiteSpeed); for Apache the following modules are required: mod_dir, mod_acces and mod_auth
At least 50MB of server disk space for X-Cart files
At least 10MB of database space
Ability to override server settings in .htaccess files (for Apache, nginx and LiteSpeed web servers)

Apache 1.3, Apache 2.0 or Apache 2.2 with the following modules: mod_userdir, mod_rewrite (for the Clean URLs feature), mod_expires and mod_gzip/mod_deflate
Over 500MB of database space for large stores
Ability to run scheduled jobs (crontab)
Valid SSL certificate for HTTPS pages (Google Checkout accepts SSL certificates from a limited list of Certificate Authorities only)
Open 80, 443 and 1129 ports (payment and shipping modules may require other ports to be open)
Enabled loop-back connections to localhost
Domain names should be correctly resolved to IP addresses accessible from Internet (on the system level and via "gethostbyaddr()" and "gethostbyname()" PHP-functions)

Note: you can obtain an SSL certificate from us.

3. MySQL

Required:

MySQL 3.23 or above (5.0.50 and 5.0.51 versions are not recommended due to known bugs)
Allowed privileges: select_priv, insert_priv, update_priv, delete_priv, lock_tables_priv and index_priv
Unlimited max_questions, max_updates, max_queries_per_hour and max_user_connections
wait_timeout no less than 7200

4. PHP

Required:

PHP 4.3 or above (5.3 is supported either) with the following extensions: pcre and mysql
safe_mode off
file_uploads on
magic_quotes_sybase off
sql.safe_mode off
allow_url_fopen on
ini_set on
memory_limit no less than 32M
Either enabled "mail()" function, or available SMTP server, or installed qmail/postfix (required for sending e-mails)

PHP 5.3 with the following extensions: ftp, zlib, GDLib 2.0 (with support for libjpeg and libpng), mcrypt, xml/Expat, curl, openssl
If PHP operates as CGI, it should be build with "--enable-force-cgi-redirect" setting (without "--enable-discard-path")
DocumentRoot and php.ini for HTTP and HTTPS pages should be the same
HTTP and HTTPS pages should be handled by the same PHP system user
sendmail_from set with a valid e-mail address
disable_functions not set
post_max_size over 2M
upload_max_filesize over 2M
max_execution_time no less than 60
memory_limit no less than 64M
max_input_time over 30
precision = 14
PHP compiled with "--enable-memory-limit" option
Enabled "exec()" function (required by most of payment modules, GnuPG/PHP and HTTPS features)
Enabled "popen()" and "pclose()" functions (required by HTTPS features, several payment module and SMTP e-mails)
PHP should allow no less than 10000 recursive function calls

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Testimonials

I've been using X-cart since 2005 when I started my first website esexywear.com. Since then I've purchased 2 more licenses. I've always had compliments on how well the sites were laid out and how clean the site look. Version 4.4 is by far the best yet. The admin area is so easy to navigate. If you're looking for a shopping cart that's reliable, easy to use, and has tons of features, this is it.

Timothy Marrow
Owner
www.justcallitsexy.com
August 12, 2010

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X-Cart system installs/runs on

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