www.mydomainname.com/catalog as a start page?

[vava]

Hello to this great community.My first post and first question..I want my oscommerce to run as i hit my www.mydomainname.com and not to type www.mydomainname.com/catalog.

I dont want the...-future-:)customers to type all this..

Also how i can test my eshop offline or a free php sql host?

Thanx a lot:)

[♥Vger]

For osCommerce to be accessed at http://www.yourdomain.com, just upload all of the files WITHIN the Catalog folder, but not the folder itself.

 

To test your shop offline set your computer up with a local web server. For those who have never done this before I recommend XAMPP, it's an all-in-one package and a completely automated install procedure. You'll find it here: http://www.apachefriends.org/en

 

XAMPP does use php5 so you'll need to edit admin/includes/classes/upload.php on line 31. Where it says $this just change it to unset ($this);

 

Vger

[vava]

i didnt get it...sorry....u mean to put the catalog in the root?cause now i have it inside the www path

[Guest]

Hello to this great community.My first post and first question..I want my oscommerce to run as i hit my www.mydomainname.com and not to type www.mydomainname.com/catalog.

I dont want the...-future-:)customers to type all this..

 

Hey there vava,

 

Check your web host to see if they can point your domain name to the /catalog directory or if there is a way you can redirect it yourself. Also, you may be able to set up a subdomain such as "http://store.mydomain.com". That is what I use.

 

Hope this helps.

 

Dan

[Wendy James]

Treat the "catalog" folder as if it is your url. You do not need a subdomain, you don't need (and really dont want) to use redirect if you can help it

 

In other words take all of the files INSIDE the catalog folder and upload them into your public_html folder. The one where you would normally put your index.html

 

Hope that made sense. =)

[vava]

heh i dinnt thought that:)ill try and ill come again tahnx:)

[thecelticrebel]

Treat the "catalog" folder as if it is your url. You do not need a subdomain, you don't need (and really dont want) to use redirect if you can help it

 

In other words take all of the files INSIDE the catalog folder and upload them into your public_html folder. The one where you would normally put your index.html

 

Hope that made sense. =)

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I had basically the same question vava did. Do I just copy the individual files inside the "catalog" folder into my main directory, or the contents of the folders that appear inside the "catalog" folder, too? Thanks in advance.

 

If a copy of the reply could be included by PM, too, I'd appreciate it.

[Wendy James]

You just copy everything (files and folders) inside the catalog folder into your main public_html folder... or whatever your host calls it. The one where you would normally stick the index.php

[thecelticrebel]

You just copy everything (files and folders) inside the catalog folder into your main public_html folder... or whatever your host calls it. The one where you would normally stick the index.php

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Thanks, Wendy. There's a lot to learn, but it definitely beats having to do everything from scratch. :)

[Wendy James]

LOL Ain't that the truth. =)

 

Good luck.