# Connection Bridge Setup Guide

Cart2Cart - Shopping Cart Migration Service (c) MagneticOne.com

Dear Customer,

Thank you for choosing Cart2Cart. This manual will help to set up a Connection Bridge on your site in a few minutes. For better understanding it is recommended to look through a short video tutorial.

If you experience any problems during installation, don't hesitate to contact us. We will be happy to help.

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A few simple steps to install a Connection Bridge:

1. Right after you click “Download” link, save the files to your local computer. They will be downloaded as zip files and you will have to extract them from the archive.
2. Now, you have to connect your Source and Target Stores via FTP client e.g.Filezilla, FileFTP, CuteFTP, WinSCP, etc.

- If you don’t have FTP client installed yet you can set it up in a few simple steps. A detailed guidelines on how to do that you can find here.
- In case you don’t have FTP access details, you can get them by simply contacting your hosting provider or developer. If they can’t help you, please contact our Support Team.

3. Upload "bridge2cart" folder from the archive to your store root directory. Simply copy the “bridge2cart” folder extracted from the Connection Bridge files and paste it into your Source or Target Store accordingly. Folder "bridge2cart" includes file index.php which doesn’t allow Google to index a folder "bridge2cart".

- Note: For Wordpress (WooCommerce, Shopp, WP e-Commerce) or Joomla (AceShop, JooCart, VirtueMart, MijoShop) e-commerce plugins the "bridge2cart" folder should be uploaded to the root directory where your CMS (Wordpress/Joomla) is installed, not your e-commerce plugin directory.

4. You can check if the Connection Bridge files have been installed correctly. To do that enter http://[yourstore url]/bridge2cart/bridge.php within your browser address line. If the message “BRIDGE_INSTALLED” appears, it means the bridge files are working correctly. Otherwise set the permissions as following:

- "bridge.php" - 644 or 666, depending on your server configuration;
- "/bridge2cart" folder - 755 or 777, depending on your server configuration.

If you face some troubles while setting the permissions, please contact our Support Team.
5. To be able to copy images during your migration please check the writing permissions on your Target store for image directory and ALL subfolders/files it contains (chmod 777).

NOTE!

- We strongly recommend to turn off redirect on your site for proper work of the Connection Bridge files. To check if you need to turn off redirect, follow this link "http://[yourstore url]/bridge2cart/bridge.php" and once it's redirecting to some other link you should disable redirects in your .htaccess file. It's a hidden file residing in your "shop" folder.
- In order to prevent accidental blocking of Cart2Cart IPs, it is recommended to add them to your white list. Find more info how to that here.

If you have any questions, you can check out the following FAQ or feel free to contact our Support Team.

Sincerely yours, Cart2Cart Team www.shopping-cart-migration.com