Extension Installation Tutorial

1.

Connect to your FTP server. Locate the extension you have downloaded on your local machine.

In this example we will install my HTML & Message Display module.

2.

Locate the main directory of your shop on your server.

This will be the location in which you installed your store

3.

 Open the folder containing the module you have downloaded. Select the folder which matches the version of OpenCart you are running.

We are selecting the folder OpenCart v1.5.1 because we are currently running OpenCart v1.5.1.2 for our shop.

4.

Inside this folder there will be an Upload folder. The files to be uploaded are contained in this folder.

5.

Inside the Upload folder you will find two folders; admin & catalog. These are the folders that you will need to upload to install the extension.

6.

To install the extension, simply drag these two folders into the empty space below the files on your server.

The folders are setup to put the extension in the exact location it needs to be.

Caution: If you drag the folders over a folder found on your server, it will upload the files into the wrong directories and potentially conflict with existing files.

Make sure to drag the folders into a clear empty area below the files on your server to avoid this problem.

7.

If you are prompted to overwrite existing files, you may already have an extension with the same filenames on your server.

Make sure you don’t have another extension installed with the same filenames otherwise errors could occur.

If you are updating an already installed extension, ignore the warning above and select “Overwrite All”.