The following are step by step instructions for installing the open source shopping cart Zen Cart on your Bluehost professional webhosting account.

  1. Upload contents of your Zen Cart download to a directory of your choice
  2. Create your new database using the MySQL database manager in your Cpanel
  3. Create a new MySQL user
  4. Attach your new MySQL user to your new MySQL database
  5. Run the Zen Cart Install script by pointing your browser to the base URL of your website (e.g., www.example.com)
  6. You then only need to follow the prompts to install Zen Cart(tm).
  7. Once you have followed the steps give to you by the setup wizard, you will need to reset your configure.php files located in the /admin/includes/ and /includes/ folders back to read-only mode
  8. remove or rename the /zc_install folder so that someone can't re-install your shop again and wipe out your database! Warnings will appear until the folder has been removed or renamed.

That's it! About a total of 10-15 minutes of work and you have yourself a working and fully functional Zen Cart shopping cart system running on your Bluehost webserver account.