Bitnami AbanteCart Stack is a multiplatform and freely distributed software project that has been designed from the ground up to help users who know nothing about installing a database or web server, with the installation and hosting of the AbanteCart shopping cart web-based application on desktop computers and laptops.
What is AbanteCart?
AbanteCart is an open source e-commerce, shopping cart system that allows you to create a powerful website for selling products online in minutes, without too much effort. Key features include support for both tangible and digital products, SEO-friendly URLs, product ratings, product reviews, support for multiple currencies, support for multiple languages, flexible layouts, support for a wide range of payment gateways, as well as support for mobile phones and tablets.
Installing Bitnami AbanteCart Stack
Bitnami AbanteCart Stack is distributed mainly as native installers, which have been tested on both 32-bit and 64-bit (recommended) hardware platforms, designed with BitRock’s cross-platform installer tool.
To install AbanteCart on your personal computer, you will have to download the package that corresponds to your computer’s hardware architecture, run it and follow the instructions displayed on the screen.
Host AbanteCart in the cloud
In addition to install AbanteCart on your personal computer, you can also host it in the cloud, thanks to Bitnami’s pre-built cloud images for the Amazon EC2 and Windows Azure cloud hosting providers.
AbanteCart virtual appliance and Docker container
Besides the pre-build cloud images and native installers, Bitnami also offers a virtual appliance for the AbanteCart application, allowing the user to virtualize it on the VMware ESX, ESXi and Oracle VirtualBox virtualization software. A AbanteCart Docker container will also be available for download on the project’s homepage.
The Bitnami AbanteCart Module
Users who have the Bitnami LAMP, MAMP or WAMP stacks installed can skip this project and download the Bitnami AbanteCart Module software, which allows them to deploy the AbanteCart application on their PCs without having to install its runtime dependencies.