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I misunderstood. If your site is hosted remotely, you don't need to deal with all the XAMPP, MAMP, etc. That's server stuff and is already taken care of by Hostgator.

Your original question had to...

Many of the issues you're having result from trying to install Zencart locally. Much better, IMO, to buy some server space and install it there. Let the host worry about PHP, SQL, etc.

Because that isn't really a Zencart question. All your files can be accessed using an FTP program. Filezilla is a good, free one.

You would use your FTP program to download files to your local computer so you can edit them. Many here save copies of edited files on their local computer before uploading to the server, so we...