newbie answers really needed

[slas7713]

Hi All,

 

First time OScommerce user needed assistance from all you vetrans. My system consist of FreeBSD 5.4, PHP 5.0.3, MySQL 5.0.2, Apache 1.3, and oscommerce-2.2r2 along with others such as Postfix, qpopper, etc....

 

I've already delt, maybe, with the register_global issue by including the line "php_value register_globals "on"", in my Apache VirtualHost directive for the site that will have the store.

 

I installed oscommerce from the FreeBSD ports and then moved all of it to where my DocumentRoot is defined. I modifed both configure.php files after creating an initial database (tznu) and user for the site. I've moved from error message to error message solving them one by one, possibly, as I slowly trudge ahead. Now I need some input. I'm currently stuck at the error:

 

1146 - Table 'tznu.configuration' doesn't exist

select configuration_key as cfgKey, configuration_value as cfgValue from configuration

 

My Questions in addition to the current problem:

1) It appears that there are additional oscommerce databases, or site databases, that will need to be manually installed? What are these and are there any instructions for the manual process. I've looked and had trouble finding any.

 

2) I plan on having several sites on the same server with several stores. How does oscommerce work with these multiple instances. Since I haven't been able to actually configure one I'm still trying to get a picture of the structure. I'm assuming each site will have it's own configuration (store) and associated database and the general oscommerce application will remain as is much like phpMyAdmin. If anyone can elaborate more on this area it would help alot. I bought an ebook but it's more on configuration after you get to the admin setup. Again the other documentation doesn't explain much.

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Dean Lasiter

[slas7713]

Just to update I've tried editing the .htaccess files and the php.ini and still not working. What's up with this? Hardest install yet for me.

 

Hi All,

 

First time OScommerce user needed assistance from all you vetrans. My system consist of FreeBSD 5.4, PHP 5.0.3, MySQL 5.0.2, Apache 1.3, and oscommerce-2.2r2 along with others such as Postfix, qpopper, etc....

 

I've already delt, maybe, with the register_global issue by including the line "php_value register_globals "on"", in my Apache VirtualHost directive for the site that will have the store.

 

I installed oscommerce from the FreeBSD ports and then moved all of it to where my DocumentRoot is defined. I modifed both configure.php files after creating an initial database (tznu) and user for the site. I've moved from error message to error message solving them one by one, possibly, as I slowly trudge ahead. Now I need some input. I'm currently stuck at the error:

 

1146 - Table 'tznu.configuration' doesn't exist

select configuration_key as cfgKey, configuration_value as cfgValue from configuration

 

My Questions in addition to the current problem:

1) It appears that there are additional oscommerce databases, or site databases,  that will need to be manually installed? What are these and are there any instructions for the manual process. I've looked and had trouble finding any.

 

2) I plan on having several sites on the same server with several stores. How does oscommerce work with these multiple instances. Since I haven't been able to actually configure one I'm still trying to get a picture of the structure. I'm assuming each site will have it's own configuration (store) and associated database and the general oscommerce application will remain as is much like phpMyAdmin. If anyone can elaborate more on this area it would help alot. I bought an ebook but it's more on configuration after you get to the admin setup. Again the other documentation doesn't explain much.

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Dean Lasiter

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[slas7713]

Just another update relating to the last update. I have NOT resolved the register_globals issue yet. In my attempt to get to the /catalog/install directory I have that damn error again. Here's what I've done in my futile attempt to get rid of it and try to move on.

 

1) Modified my php.ini to turn register_globals on and confirmed path php 5 is looking for it in.

2) Modified both .htaccess files in /catalog and /catalog/admin with the IFModule directive setting it to php_value register_globals 1.

3) Modified my Apache httpd.conf file and set Directory directives to AllowOverride Options.

4) Went back and confirmed all were correct according to all examples noted.

 

After two days now I feel like I'm back to where I started. ARRRG!!