Installation step "fails."

[mgronduty]

I've tried to find a reference to this in the kb and I've searched the forums, but have so far come up short. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

We're trying to install oscommerce using a single box running FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p2 with the following packages installed via ports:

 

apache+mod_ssl-1.3.33+2.8.22

mod_perl-1.29_1

mod_php4-4.3.9_1,1

mysql-client-4.0.22 Multithreaded SQL database (client)

mysql-server-4.0.22 Multithreaded SQL database (server)

oscommerce-2.2r2

 

I'm able to get to the page in the web-based configuration where I tell osCommerce the database host, username, password and name, but when I click on Continue the resulting page appears only half-drawn. The last line when viewing source is

<p><b>Database Import</b></p>

My understanding is that the configuration should be testing the database connection and returning the results of this test, but neither IE nor Firefox seem to indicate that they are waiting for the rest of the page to be drawn. It just...stops.

 

Any ideas? Is there an error log I should be looking at? Do you need any additional information?

 

Many Thanks for any input.

 

Garrick Linn

[♥Vger]

Can't help you as to why it's not working on your setup - but I can tell you how to side-step it. You've already created a blank database, so just use phpMyAdmin to import the rest of the default tables from oscommerce.sql You've already uploaded the files to your site, so all you have to do then is to place your settings in the two configure.php files, create a backup directory called 'backups' in the admin folder, and set the file permissions on the images folder to 777 - and it should then run.

 

Vger

[jsellens]

I'm able to get to the page in the web-based configuration where I tell osCommerce the database host, username, password and name, but when I click on Continue the resulting page appears only half-drawn.  The last line when viewing source is

<p><b>Database Import</b></p>

 

I had the same problem on FreeBSD 4.10. At some point ("recently-ish"), php split into multiple sets of stuff, so not all the "base" php components are installed with php. Try installing the "php4-extensions" package from /usr/ports/lang/php4-extensions. That did the trick for me (so far!).