Jonne Posted March 1, 2005 Share Posted March 1, 2005 I am very new to this. I am using microsoft frontpage to create my store and want to use osCommerce as the catalog. I have been reading info at the knowledgebase, but I don't understand what they mean by: FTP Based Installation Download the osCommerce release package Extract the package to a temporary directory Connect to the web server with an FTP client Copy the "catalog" directory to the web server document path Direct Server Access Based Installation Save the osCommerce release package on the server Extract the package to a temporary directory Copy the "catalog" directory to the web server document path Whats the difference? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 1, 2005 Share Posted March 1, 2005 FTP Based InstallationDownload the osCommerce release package Extract the package to a temporary directory Connect to the web server with an FTP client Copy the "catalog" directory to the web server document path Means download the program, unzip it and then copy those contents to your webhost provider and follow the installation instructions. Direct Server Access Based InstallationSave the osCommerce release package on the server Extract the package to a temporary directory Copy the "catalog" directory to the web server document path Mean if you have physical access to your own server, do it this way... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonne Posted March 1, 2005 Author Share Posted March 1, 2005 Ok. Now I have everything uploaded to my webpage. But what does all of this mean Web Server Document Path The web server document path is the directory where the web server has been configured to look for the HTML/PHP files to serve to the public. Example web server document paths are: /home/hpdl/public_html/ /srv/www/htdocs/ /usr/local/htdocs/ If the catalog directory is kept and copied to, for example, /home/hpdl/public_html/catalog/, the web server public address would be http://www.my-server.com/catalog/. If the osCommerce installation is to reside on the root path, for example http://www.my-server.com/, then the files within the catalog directory should be copied over and not the actual catalog directory itself. I'm sorry if I may sound stupid. Thanks fro the quick reply. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genijan Posted March 1, 2005 Share Posted March 1, 2005 Ok. Now I have everything uploaded to my webpage. But what does all of this mean Web Server Document Path The web server document path is the directory where the web server has been configured to look for the HTML/PHP files to serve to the public. Example web server document paths are: /home/hpdl/public_html/ /srv/www/htdocs/ /usr/local/htdocs/ If the catalog directory is kept and copied to, for example, /home/hpdl/public_html/catalog/, the web server public address would be http://www.my-server.com/catalog/. If the osCommerce installation is to reside on the root path, for example http://www.my-server.com/, then the files within the catalog directory should be copied over and not the actual catalog directory itself. I'm sorry if I may sound stupid. Thanks fro the quick reply. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Put it under the folder C:inetpub/wwwroot/ That is the location in IIS. The type htp:\\localhost\Catlog\install\index.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonne Posted March 1, 2005 Author Share Posted March 1, 2005 I don't think I have IIS installed on my computer. Is there a way to do this without IIS? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonne Posted March 2, 2005 Author Share Posted March 2, 2005 Any one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥Vger Posted March 2, 2005 Share Posted March 2, 2005 What exactly are you trying to do? Are you trying to install to a hosted webspace? If so, the following applies. If you want the osCommerce store to be viewed at http://www.yourdomain.com then just FTP the 'contents' of the 'catalog' folder to the root of your webspace. When you FTP to your webspace then this 'root' will be where you have an 'html' or 'htdocs' folder. The osCommerce files and folders go into this. Then you need to go to your web hosting control panel, find the link to phpMyAdmin (may be called MySQL Administration Tool or similar), and create a blank database. Then you go to http://www.yourdomain.com/install and begin the installation procedure. For further info on this see the Knowledge Base Installation Guide. Vger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonne Posted March 2, 2005 Author Share Posted March 2, 2005 What is my "web hotsing control panel"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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