Installing 3

###Note: This article only applies to those customers downloading and installing on their on hosting account. All LightSpeed-hosted accounts are done for you.

To install:

PHP 5.5 (recommended) or PHP 5.4. Note that PHP 5.3 and below are not supported. If you had the previous version of Web Store running in a 5.3 environment, it will need to be upgraded.

1. Download the distribution DMG (http://downloads.xsilva.net/webstore/latest) or pull from GitHub. There should be two files inside, install.php and another webstore.zip file. You do NOT need to further unzip the inner webstore.zip file.
2. For the downloaded files, create a blank directory on your web server and upload the two files, install.php and webstore.zip into this folder. If you have cloned from Github, you will already have the expanded files instead of website.zip which is also fine.
3. Create a blank database for Web Store 3. IMPORTANT: Even if you are upgrading from Web Store 2, you must create a new, blank database. During setup, if you wish to upgrade, you will be prompted to enter your old database name which will be used to import data into the new version.
4. Note: The installer for WS3 does things in a different order than prior versions. The installer will prompt for your database connection information first, install all the files, then return to prompt for licensing and store information. Your email server info will also be required for setup.
5. Go to your store URL by going to http://www.mystoreurl.com/install.php to run the install program. You will enter your database connection information here.
6. The wizard will then extract the zip file on the server, then begin the install process by setting up tables and configuration files.
7. After the wizard has completed, you will have a blank store. You can point your LightSpeed system to the URL and perform a reset/upload as before to upload products.