How to create a free Amazon Store Website

• Are you an Amazon Associates? if not you may apply at Amazon Associates site to become an associate. It's free.
• Now if you want to run an Amazon Store Website to sell Amazon products as an affiliate?

Here are the tips and tricks to do it easy way.
Example Website: http://shoppingitnow.com/bestsellers.html
1.Download Roger Stringer's My Amazon Store Manager v2.0 Download
Requirements: PHP (version 4.2.3 or higher)
2. Upload the downloaded zipped folder to your webserver.
3. Extract all the files in a directory from the zipped folder.
4. Open script/config.php and fill out following informations.

$sitename = "YourSiteName";
$siteurl = "http://www.yoursite.com/";
$adminemail = "yourname@yoursite.com";
$AssociatesID = "";
$SubscriptionID = "";
$AWSAccessKeyId = "";
$SecretAccessKey = "";
$locale == "us"; // uk,de
$seo = 1;

• Please note step 2, you do not need to fill out a SubscriptionId if you signed up for Amazon's Web Services after October 11, 2005. You just need to be fill out AWSAccessKeyID, please only fill out one or the other.

5. chmod the config.php file to 777:
6. Edit the pages as you wish.

Templates
There is a template folder which contains several files that are used by the Amazon Store Manager to handle the site's output:

- welcomemsg.tpl
- browsepagefooter.tpl
- browsepagetitle.tpl
- catpage.tpl
- default.tpl
- footer.tpl
- header.tpl
- menu.tpl
- productpage.tpl
- productpageauthors.tpl
- productpagefeatures.tpl
- productpagefooter.tpl
- productpageheader.tpl
- productpagesimiliar.tpl
- search_result_title.tpl
- similiar.tpl
- similiarfooter.tpl
- similiarheader.tpl
- single_search_result.tpl
- browsepage.tpl

Template tags are recognized by their used of %% and %%. For example, to print the name of the site,
we would go: %%sitename%%
Troubeshooting
If you use SEO mode, and it gives you an error, please open .htaccess and find this line:

RewriteEngine on
Replace it with these 3 lines:
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

Change RewriteBase to point to the folder the script is installed in. For example, if the script is located at http://www.yoursite.com/amazon then change RewriteBase to look like this:

RewriteBase /amazon/

Note: If you decide to use seo mode, then make sure you upload the contents of .htaccess
to your server as it is included. This will configure the script to run in Search Engine Friendly mode.