IX WebHosting and eCommerce at IX Web Hosting.com

The cool thing about using IX Webhosting as a web host is not just that it’s a reliable web host, but that you can setup an eCommerce store online with any of the IX Webhosting’ shared hosting plans. I’m sure there are some small business IX webhosting clients who would like to put an eCommerce shopping cart on their site, but aren’t sure how to do it. Well cheer up! The following is a step by step IX WebHosting guide to putting eCommerce on IX web hosting package.

IX WebHosting eCommerce Set Up

Okay, say you want your IX Webhosting site to have an eCommerce shopping cart with the ability to take not only major credit cards like Visa and Master Card, but also PayPal payments. Sounds a little complicated right? Well it’s not.

1. OS Commerce is an open-source shopping cart, which means that is is FREE to use. So what you need to do first is download the code for the shopping cart script
2. It will come in a zipped file so you need to unzip it on your hard drive and upload the script to Ix webhosting site.
3. Make sure the php.ini file is set to: “register_globals = on”.
4. No go into cPanel and click on create a new mysql database in your control panel, adding a new user (choose any name you want) to the mysql database.
5. Now the easy part: In order to begin the installation locate the folder “yourdomain.com/store and click on this. The wizard installer will lead you flawlessly through the IX Webhosting ecommerce/shopping cart set up. You online store will be up and running from this point.

NOTE: If all this is still a little confusing, the fact is IX Webhosting tech support staff will be able to do the whole thing for you if you ask them.

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