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I am trying to do a test install of V4.12 for a client currently running on 2.3.3. What happens is that it appears to go through the installation (via Softaculous from cPanel) OK, but when I try to use the sample store from either customer or admin side, a pop-up dialog says something about "menus have changed" and that needs to be dealt with first thing. I don't remember the exact wording, as I had to remove V4 in order to try an install of V3 (Phoenix). Anyway, I end up on some kind of menu editor page, and, lacking any more specific instructions, I press "Save" to try to save the "changed" menus. The dialog just spins forever (hangs). I can't get past it. I've tried multiple removals and reinstalls, with the same results. This is the absolutely stock, fresh out of the box, V4 installation. This occurs on two hosting servers the client is trying, HostMonster and GreenGeeks (both Linux, with cPanel & Softaculous), and I tried both PHP 7.4 and 8.0. Oddly, I was able to install OK (at least, without the menu issue) on my personal site (on HostPapa server, again PHP 7.4/8.0 Linux cPanel Softaculous), which I had to delete subsequently. Has anyone seen this kind of problem on an installation, and if so, how did you fix it? Is the Softaculous installer at fault, and I have to install manually in some manner? I seem to have Phoenix working with their current data, but I'm reluctant to recommend going into production with it, as I understand that code base is something of a dead end.

Ok I'm new to oscommerce and it seems a lot of the information on the site for usage and installing addons is very "unclear" here is now how to or beginners guide and a lot of the addons themselves don't have clear instructions and Im new so I am totally lost with finding proper instructions on how or better yet "where" and what folder to install them in. I have the laste version of the script and am looking to install this sales report addon. http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,8321/category,12/search,sales+report the read me gives instruction on how to install basically stating the first step is to install are as follows: 1. Upload these five new files: admin/stats_monthly_sales.php admin/includes/printer.css admin/includes/languages/english/stats_monthly_sales.php admin/includes/languages/english/images/buttons/button_save_sort.gif admin/includes/languages/english/images/buttons_button_sort_order.gif but WHERE do i drop he admin folder is what Im confused on. It doesnt say. Almost every addon i download doesnt tell you where to drop the first folder and I cant find general instructions on oscommerce site on how to go about doing so.