New User Questions...

[Guest]

Hey everybody, i'm new here obviously...

Anyways, i've done some looking around on the forum and on the oscommerce.info site and haven't found the answers to my questions... hoping u guys could help out!

 

Here we go:

 

1. What do i need to do with the config.php file?

I get the "Warning: I am able to write to the configuration file:" error message, even though i set the CMOD properties to only allow the owner write properties.

 

2. I changed the logo to my own file. The trouble is, its not long enough to reach all the way to the right side of the store. What do i do? Do i just make the logo longer? Or can i fill in that space with a repeating .gif file?

 

3. How do I change the "Lets see what we have here" text?

 

4. How do i change the Title information for the site? So instead of saying OSCommerce in the title bar, it says "xxxxx" or whatever

 

I think thats it for right now! I really really appreciate anybody's help!

Thanks.

[♥Vger]

1. What do i need to do with the config.php file?

I get the "Warning: I am able to write to the configuration file:" error message, even though i set the CMOD properties to only allow the owner write properties.

 

2. I changed the logo to my own file. The trouble is, its not long enough to reach all the way to the right side of the store. What do i do? Do i just make the logo longer? Or can i fill in that space with a repeating .gif file?

 

A. Why not just center it with an html 'center' command?

 

3. How do I change the "Lets see what we have here" text?

 

includes/languages/english/index.php

 

4. How do i change the Title information for the site? So instead of saying OSCommerce in the title bar, it says "xxxxx" or whatever

 

includes/languages/english.php

 

Do not edit files using the osCommerce File Manager (it generates errors). Download the file to edit, make a backup, edit the file in a plain text editor like Notepad - not Word or Wordpad (they're not plain text editors), and upload when finished. If it doesn't work, restore from the backup you took of the original file - no harm done.

 

Vger

[Guest]

Thanks Vger! Big help...

 

1. - does anybody know about the config file message?

 

2. - it needs to be left justified... if i just make it the right length is that the fix? (so it stretches across the store header)

 

3. Worked great! Thanks

 

4. Ditto

 

Thanks again!!!!!!1 :thumbsup:

[dentonio69]

1. - does anybody know about the config file message?

 

I think you might have to set Permissions to 444 and not 644. So it can only be read.

 

But when you want to edit it, just first set it to 644, edit it and then change it back.

 

Thanks what I did.

 

Hope that helps

 

(edit: btw this is for the configuration.php in /admin and NOT for the configure.php files)

[dentonio69]

(edit: btw this is for the configuration.php in /admin and NOT for the configure.php files)

 

Please disregard this....I got confused :P

 

It only applies to the configure.php file in /includes

[Guest]

hmmm i don't know whats up! Thanks D, but for some reason, no matter what i do, i still get the error. Even if i don't let anybody read or write it.

 

(BTW - in FTP Pro, how do i change prefs with the numbers? all i get is checkboxes)

 

Thanks guys.

[♥Vger]

In WS FTP Pro, navigate to the file, right click, select Operations --> FTP Commands --> CHMOD (Unix) and then you will see a box with both tickable boxes and the numeric equivelant below. You can alter settings by ticking/unticking boxes or just editing the numerals.

 

For the includes/configure.php (to correct the error message) set it to 400 (Owner - Read Only), and for admin/includes/configure.php you can set that to 644 or 400 (your choice).

 

Vger

[Guest]

Thanks again Vger....

 

but for some reason... when i change my configure.php file to owner read only, it changes back to owner read and write! by itself.

 

Thats really weird... any ideas on what could cause that?

 

I really appreciate the help.

[♥Vger]

Is your site hosted on a Windows server? If so, you can't change permissions via FTP - only by SSH, or Telnet, or via your web hosting control panel. Failing that you'll have to get your hosting company to do it for you.

 

Vger

[Guest]

Yep. That is it. It won't even do it from the control panel they give me. I've sent them an email about it though.

 

Thanks!