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VirtueMart 1.1 Installation Tutorial

Soeren Eberhardt-Biermann

Copyright © 2005-2008 Soeren Eberhardt-Biermann

This document is published under the Open Content License available from http://

www.opencontent.org/opl.shtml [http://www.opencontent.org/opl.shtml]

Revision History

Revision 1.0 November 23, 2005 soeren_nb

Initial Release for VirtueMart 1.0.0 final

Revision 1.4 November 2007 soeren_nb

Revision 1.5 April 2008 soeren_nb

Updated for VirtueMart 1.1.x

1. Preamble .................................................................................................................. 1

2. VirtueMart Installation ............................................................................................... 1

3. Joomla! Global Configuration .................................................................................... 11

4. About the VirtueMart Project ..................................................................................... 12

5. The Community ...................................................................................................... 12

>= 4.5.3, 4.6.x).

(Joomla! and Mambo is free Software, licensed under GNU/GPL; Joomla! is available from

www.joomla.org [http://www.joomla.org])

VirtueMart has the following System Requirements:

• Apache 1.3.19 or above - http://www.apache.org, recommended: Apache 2.2.x

• PHP 4.2.x or above - http://www.php.net, recommended: PHP 5.2.x

The MySQL user, you access the database with in production use, must have the rights to

create temporary tables.

The "Complete Package" and the "Manual Installation Package" are available in two basic

versions: one for Joomla! 1.0/Mambo and one for Joomla! 1.5. The second one has the

extension ".j15.zip" (or ".j15.tar.gz").

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VirtueMart can be accessed and the necessary table structure will be set up.

If you want to upgrade VirtueMart 1.0.x to VirtueMart 1.1.x, this is your choice.

When having met all the requirements and when you are running Joomla! or Mambo you have two

choices:

1. The automatic installation with Joomla's / Mambo's Element (Component-, Module-, Mambot-)

Installer.

2. The manual installation.

Some users can't use the automatic Installer because of the PHP setting 'safe_mode' being set to 'On'.

manual installation).

It is recommended to uninstall the old mambo-phpShop modules after you have installed the

VirtueMart component and then install the new VirtueMart modules.

It is absolutely necessary to make a backup of your whole site before you upgrade your

shop! An upgrade failure can always happen! So please: BACKUP, BACKUP, BACKUP!

If you're a user of VirtueMart 1.0.x (or mambo-phpShop >= 1.2 stable) you can easily update your

existing shop.

• /mambots (/plugins for the Joomla! 1.5 version)

The directory structure in those directories is the same as in your Joomla!/Mambo site.

and upload the directories.

The FileZilla FTP Client [http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client] is a

fabulous FTP client (Open Source!) and reports transfer errors, so you know if everything

has been successfully uploaded or not.

You will probably have to confirm overwriting some existing files in these directories. An existing

configuration file will not be overwritten.

Make sure you Save the Configuration Form once you're done.

This has been said often enough before, but now once again: before you attempt to upgrade

your existing Store to VirtueMart 1.1 create a BACKUP first and test the upgrade on a local

copy of your store!

Themes are a new feature introduced with VirtueMart 1.1. So the complete templating

system has been changed. If you have modified the shop templates (product_details, browse,

order_email) that shipped with VirtueMart 1.0.x, you will have to manually convert your

This "complete package" file is not installable! Its contents are, but they must be unpacked

first.

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1. Unpack the file 'VirtueMart_1.1.x_COMPLETE_PACKAGE.zip' to a local directory.

2. Log in into the Backend (using the URL ' http://www.yoursite.tld/administrator')

to access the administrative interface.