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CE is a scalable shopping cart for Ecommerce sites developed primarily for the SOHO (small office, home office) store owner who wants to add transactional capabilities to an existing website. You can organize, manage and ship your products, and you have the the flexibility you need to run a successful online business. It includes shipping, payment, marketing, security, design, and admin features, as well as customer and product management tools.
Open Source - A Better Way to Build and Distribute Software
CRE Loaded began as an open source project through the addition of many new features and capabilities to the OSCommerce shopping cart engine. CRE Loaded was developed internally and also welcomed contributions by the open source community under the Open Source General Public License (GPL). This early effort created a “loaded” fork of OSCommerce which proved to be a more robust, scalable shopping cart software, which we called CRE Loaded.
The (Absolute) Minimum Basic Requirements
CRE Loaded 6.4 is designed to run on a so – called LAMP server. This is an acronym which means the server is set up with the Linux Operating system (L), the Apache web server (A), a MYSQL database, (M) and it can run PHP code. (P) The following versions of these components will be required for the proper running of CRE Loaded:
- The Linux Operating System
- The Apache Web Server version 1.3 or greater, with mod_ssl.
- MySQL database version 5.0.12 or greater.
- PHP 5.2. or greater
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Certificate.
NOTE. If you want to follow the RapidPCITM process, you must also have an SSL Certificate installed by your host. You will need to enable this during the install process.
These components must be compiled in:
- MySQL support
- PCRE support
- ZLIB support
- cURL support
- GD support - recommend the bundled GD library
- ICONV support
- EXIF support - optional, but required for full functionality
- FTP support - optional, but required for full functionality
The follow configuration settings can be set in the php.ini, httpd.conf or in the .htaccess, but they must be set as:
- Register_globals can be on or off, recommended setting is off
- safe_mode - must be off
- session.auto_start - must be off
- magic_quotes - must be off
- file_uploads - must be on
- allow_url_fopen - must be on
- allow_url_include – recommended setting is off
Although some customers require more sophisticated applications for their online store and a software solution that is supported by a professional development and service organization, there are many online store owners and entrepreneurs who are comfortable with a community-supported shopping cart solution. That is why CRE Loaded has continued to improve and deliver make available its PCI PA-DSS validated open source community-supported free version, CRE Loaded PCI CE (Community Edition).
Customers can download CRE Loaded CE (Community Edition) for free in order to evaluate what CRE Loaded has to offer in its most basic form, and then fully engage with CRE Loaded PCI Pro or CRE Loaded PCI B2B when they are ready for a commercial relationship. In this way, CRE Loaded CE allows us to be more responsive to costly and time-consuming enterprise sales activities while allocating more toward engineering and development (more than 80% our company is involved in R&D and customer support). CRE Loaded CE and our online demo capabilities allow store owners worldwide to experience the CRE Loaded commitment to creating value for store owners as well as the open source web development community. Incorporating complementary product partnerships and custom development forums into our entire product line enhances CRE Loaded’s commitment to safe and secure ecommerce success. |
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