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Effective city management is vital for precise localization, ensuring that your online platform accurately reflects the diversity of your audience. Learn how to customize city details here: Managing Cities

Dive into effortless Back End Menu customization to create user-friendly navigation, and enhance the appeal of your website: Managing Back End Menu

Proper geographic settings for your online store are critical for targeted control over billing, shipping, and taxation. Let's take a look at how to effectively manage Geo Zones within your website's admin area.

Ensure that your online store runs smoothly, catering to a diverse audience with geographic precision. Efficiently manage county and state settings to simplify your store structure and improve the customer experience.

Navigating the global landscape of online stores involves managing countries effectively, which is critical to the smooth functioning of online ventures. Explore the tools that can help you tailor country settings to align with your business requirements: Managing Countries

Efficient management of orders and customer information is pivotal for a seamless business operation. Learn how to create and utilize predefined filters for both orders and customer lists: Managing Filters

Optimize your site for speed and efficiency by managing cache control within your website's admin area. Explore our comprehensive guide: Managing Cache Control

Whether it's order confirmations, subscription updates, or special promotions, comment templates allow you to deliver a superior customer experience. Easily manage these templates to create clear and relevant personalized messages: Managing Comment Templates

By skillfully managing cross-sell types, you not only enhance product associations but also elevate the overall shopping experience for your customers. Here are the steps to optimize your cross-selling strategy: Managing Cross Sell Type

By mastering the management of stock delivery terms, you not only streamline your backend processes but also contribute to a positive and informed shopping experience for your customers. Learn how to fine-tune your stock delivery terms within the website's admin area to enhance your customers' understanding of delivery specifics: Managing Stock Delivery Terms

We all know that customer satisfaction often hinges on the availability of products. When an item goes out of stock, it can lead to disappointment. However, with the "Notify Me When in Stock" feature, this is no longer a problem! Let's explore how you can effectively manage this feature to improve customer experience by keeping your customers informed about their desired products.

Manage your stock indication effectively to meet customer needs and provide a seamless shopping experience. Let's look at the tools that will allow you to master stock indication management techniques

In e-commerce, managing order statuses is critical to customer satisfaction. Ensuring your customers are well-informed about every stage of their order is key to building trust and loyalty. Learn how to manage order statuses to provide your customers with comprehensive information about their orders: Managing Order Statuses

During the website development process, protecting your test site from prying eyes and accidental interactions is paramount. It's a common practice to shield test websites from search engine indexing and unintended customer activity. Explore the simple steps to activate Development Mode

Effective order management is the foundation of any successful e-commerce business. Status groups play a decisive role, transforming the chaos of various order statuses into a cohesive system. Learn how to effectively manage status groups in your website's admin area to ensure a seamless workflow and enhance customer satisfaction: Managing Status Groups

Provide your customers with seamless and reliable communications by configuring your email system to use SMTP. Learn how to properly configure SMTP settings

In the world of online business, customizing your store settings is critical. Discover opportunities to expand your store's functionality and improve your user experience: Managing Configuration

Navigating the intricacies of user access on your website becomes effortless with our Access Levels feature. Here's what you can do: Managing Access Levels

When managing a website, effective coordination among team members is paramount. Explore the essential steps to manage managers, or back-end users, effectively within your website's admin area: Managing Managers

Efficiently manage extensions to tailor the functionality of your website, offering users a more personalized and enjoyable experience. Here's how Managing Extensions

Download and install Xampp from here: https://www.apachefriends.org/download.html The version I used was windows with php 8.1.12 It will install in the directory c:\xampp In c:\xampp\htdocs create the directory “catalog” Download the latest version of OSC4 from here: https://www.oscommerce.com/ Once downloaded unzip the files to c:\xampp\htdocs\catalog Start the xampp control panel and start Apache, MySql & Mercury In xampp control panel click on MySql admin tab – this will open xampp PhpMyAdmin where you need to create a new database and password. In your browser, navigate to localhost/catalog – This should start the installation process for OSC4 Initially the installation will fail due to a couple of services needed as follows: First PHP GD: See this link for the solution: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/how-to-install-php-gd-in-xampp/ Second PHP Extension intl: See this limk for the solution: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33869521/how-can-i-enable-php-extension-intl The installation may fail again when trying to install the database due to password issues – If so you may need to hard code your database password into the catalog/admin/includes/configure.php file at around line 52 The installation should now continue and complete (unless I forgot a step / adjustment somewhere….) Ok so now you can go to the browser and using localhost/catalog open your new website. BUT….. More changes are required to enable your access to your Admin / Backend as follows: Firstly from a post by @pandrei a change needed to: xampp/htdocs/catalog/admin/includes/local/configure.php and remove extra slash in these constants: define('DIR_WS_ADMIN', '//oscommerce/store/admin/'); define('DIR_WS_CATALOG', '//oscommerce/store'); Change to: define('DIR_WS_ADMIN', '/oscommerce/store/admin/'); define('DIR_WS_CATALOG', '/oscommerce/store'); You can now navigate to localhost/catalog/admin but the login will fail, as the Mercury email programme needs to be set up as follows: First make sure you have an email account and password set up (I created a gmail.com email account just for this purpose) Then you need to configure Mercury to send mails, there is lots of info out there, but this link is one of the most straightforward: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/how-to-configure-xampp-to-send-mail-from-localhost-using-php/ Next you need to make a change via the xampp mercury control panel, just a case of unchecking a box, which this link explains: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6809369/warning-mail-function-mail-smtp-server-response-553-we-do-not-relay-non-l You should now be able to login to your Admin / Backend – Simples! Disclaimer: As I did the install a few days ago I may have forgotten a step or change needed, so don’t blame me if it does not work or if you waste hours of time….. If it fails post here and I (or somebody who actually knows what they are doing) will try and help.