kirky r33 Posted November 21, 2005 Share Posted November 21, 2005 Hi folks Iam totally new to Oscommerce, big thanks so far for this install guide, but i have hit a problem and would really like some help, I have installed the catalogue no problem so far, but when i try and go to the Admin index i get this p.s i have changed Admin to Neils "Warning: mysql_connect(): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2) in /home/www/kirrey.freesuperhost.com/Neils/includes/functions/database.php on line 19 Unable to connect to database server!" Can any one help! Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥Vger Posted November 21, 2005 Author Share Posted November 21, 2005 If you can connect to the shop front but not to the backend 'admin' then check your settings in catalog/includes/configure.php against those in catalog/admin/includes/configure.php. Leave out the 'catalog/' part of that if you've installed into the root. Vger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirky r33 Posted November 21, 2005 Share Posted November 21, 2005 If you can connect to the shop front but not to the backend 'admin' then check your settings in catalog/includes/configure.php against those in catalog/admin/includes/configure.php. Leave out the 'catalog/' part of that if you've installed into the root. Vger Thanks Vger, but if i go to that url catalog/includes/configure.php, it just comes up Forbidden, you dont have permission to access sorry for being so crap at all this! :blush: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥Vger Posted November 21, 2005 Author Share Posted November 21, 2005 You have to download the file/s via FTP to your computer and open them in a plain text editor like Notepad - not Word or Wordpad (they're not plain text editors). Vger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rbilei Posted November 21, 2005 Share Posted November 21, 2005 Hi, I'm new to the forums and to osCommerce, and I'm having a weird problem. I have Apache 2.0.55 with PHP 5.0.5 and MySQL installed (with PHPMyAdmin). For looking at osCommerce for the first time, I'm testing it on my own computer. I've put the contents of the "catalog" folder into my Apache doc root, in the folder "oscommerce". So, when starting http://localhost/oscommerce, the installation page shows up. All's fine so far, I click on the Install button, the next page shows up "New Installation", but when I click on the Continue button on this page, nothing happens! I can't figure out why. Can anyone help me with this, please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acarril Posted November 22, 2005 Share Posted November 22, 2005 Plz help me ! ! ! I'm new with osCommerce I did the instalation and everythig was ok but in step 7: Warning: fopen(c:/domains/mydomain.com/wwwroot/oscommerce/catalog/includes/configure.php): failed to open stream: Invalid argument in c:\domains\mydomain.com\wwwroot\oscommerce\catalog\install\templates\pages\install_7.php on line 209 Warning: fputs(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in c:\domains\mydomain.com\wwwroot\oscommerce\catalog\install\templates\pages\install_7.php on line 210 Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in c:\domains\mydomain.com\wwwroot\oscommerce\catalog\install\templates\pages\install_7.php on line 211 Warning: fopen(c:/domains/mydomain.com/wwwroot/oscommerce/catalog/admin/includes/configure.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied in c:\domains\mydomain.com\wwwroot\oscommerce\catalog\install\templates\pages\install_7.php on line 259 Warning: fputs(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in c:\domains\mydomain.com\wwwroot\oscommerce\catalog\install\templates\pages\install_7.php on line 260 Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in c:\domains\mydomain.com\wwwroot\oscommerce\catalog\install\templates\pages\install_7.php on line 261 The configuration was successful! Then when i pushed "Administration Tool": Warning: mysql_connect(): Access denied for user: 'mysql@localhost' (Using password: NO) in c:\domains\mydomain.com\wwwroot\oscommerce\catalog\admin\includes\functions\database.php on line 19 Unable to connect to database server! I veryfied that my user, pass and database name were ok and they are!! Can u plz help me??? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥Vger Posted November 22, 2005 Author Share Posted November 22, 2005 Downgrade to php 4+. php5 and osCommerce are not compatible. Vger Hi, I'm new to the forums and to osCommerce, and I'm having a weird problem. I have Apache 2.0.55 with PHP 5.0.5 and MySQL installed (with PHPMyAdmin). For looking at osCommerce for the first time, I'm testing it on my own computer. I've put the contents of the "catalog" folder into my Apache doc root, in the folder "oscommerce". So, when starting http://localhost/oscommerce, the installation page shows up. All's fine so far, I click on the Install button, the next page shows up "New Installation", but when I click on the Continue button on this page, nothing happens! I can't figure out why. Can anyone help me with this, please? Sometimes when the install is run, especially on Windows servers, the admin/includes/configure.php file does not get data written to it. Check that file against the contents of the includes/configure.php file and insert the data as appropriate. Vger Plz help me ! ! ! I'm new with osCommerce I did the instalation and everythig was ok but in step 7: Warning: fopen(c:/domains/mydomain.com/wwwroot/oscommerce/catalog/includes/configure.php): failed to open stream: Invalid argument in c:\domains\mydomain.com\wwwroot\oscommerce\catalog\install\templates\pages\install_7.php on line 209 Warning: fputs(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in c:\domains\mydomain.com\wwwroot\oscommerce\catalog\install\templates\pages\install_7.php on line 210 Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in c:\domains\mydomain.com\wwwroot\oscommerce\catalog\install\templates\pages\install_7.php on line 211 Warning: fopen(c:/domains/mydomain.com/wwwroot/oscommerce/catalog/admin/includes/configure.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied in c:\domains\mydomain.com\wwwroot\oscommerce\catalog\install\templates\pages\install_7.php on line 259 Warning: fputs(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in c:\domains\mydomain.com\wwwroot\oscommerce\catalog\install\templates\pages\install_7.php on line 260 Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in c:\domains\mydomain.com\wwwroot\oscommerce\catalog\install\templates\pages\install_7.php on line 261 The configuration was successful! Then when i pushed "Administration Tool": Warning: mysql_connect(): Access denied for user: 'mysql@localhost' (Using password: NO) in c:\domains\mydomain.com\wwwroot\oscommerce\catalog\admin\includes\functions\database.php on line 19 Unable to connect to database server! I veryfied that my user, pass and database name were ok and they are!! Can u plz help me??? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christianwebconcepts Posted November 29, 2005 Share Posted November 29, 2005 how do you know what your folder permissions should be set at? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christianwebconcepts Posted November 29, 2005 Share Posted November 29, 2005 so when you say all of the folders, do you mean the folders that are inside of all of the folders too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥Vger Posted November 29, 2005 Author Share Posted November 29, 2005 All folders, including sub-folders, should be set to 755 except for the 'images' and 'graphs' folders which should be 777. Vger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christianwebconcepts Posted November 29, 2005 Share Posted November 29, 2005 how do I determine the "database server" information? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥Vger Posted November 29, 2005 Author Share Posted November 29, 2005 You need to ask your web hosting company about that. It may be 'localhost', or '127.0.0.1' but it equally may be something entirely different. Vger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christianwebconcepts Posted November 30, 2005 Share Posted November 30, 2005 all I can say so far is that it was great of you to start this post, I did find a problem with one part of the directions that messed me up was that since I uploaded the catalog folder.......... I needed that folder in my url when I went to the install page......you left that part out, I kept trying and trying to use it the way you typed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christianwebconcepts Posted November 30, 2005 Share Posted November 30, 2005 should images and graphs folders remain at those settings even after install? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christianwebconcepts Posted November 30, 2005 Share Posted November 30, 2005 "Do not enable SSL" why do you say this? I am trying to understand all of this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥Vger Posted November 30, 2005 Author Share Posted November 30, 2005 This was only meant to be a "Quick Install Guide" and not meant to replace the installation instructions in the Knowledge Base. Your first point is covered here in my guide: 3. If you want your shop to be available at http://www.yourdomain.com/catalog then upload the whole of the catalog folder to the root directory of your website via FTP. If you want the site to be available at http://www.yourdomain.com then just upload all of the contents of the catalog folder, but not the folder itself. Your second point - yes 'images' and 'graphs' remain at those permissions Your final point - the reason I advise people not to enable ssl during the install is that virtually no one has a full ssl certificate before they install their domain - and if you enable ssl then your site will be set up for a full ssl cert and won't work properly without it. If you have access to a shared ssl cert then you need to input the correct information for this in the two configure.php files after you complete the install. Vger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjelliott Posted December 7, 2005 Share Posted December 7, 2005 Hello, First I want to thank you soooo much for the installation guide. It's very helpful. My question is 2 part. 1 - I need to move a store to another domain how do I transport my store? Do I just download it and upload it to the new domain? 2 - how do I do an upgrade? Thanks again for anyone who can help this newbie. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥Vger Posted December 7, 2005 Author Share Posted December 7, 2005 To move a store to another domain you need to download all files and folders via FTP to your own computer. Then you need to make and download a backup of your existing database. Go to your osC admin panel --> Tools --> Download and select to Backup and to download the backup, and don't tick to use compression. Then you upload all of the files/folders to your new site. Create a blank database (probably in your wb hosting control panel), and then go to your new blank database via phpMyAdmin, locate the new database, click on the SQL tab and use the Browse function to locate the backup you downloaded to your computer, then click 'Go' and this will populate the blank database with the information from your old one. Then you need to edit the two configure.php files to refelect your new server setup (DIR_FS pathways in particular), and your new database details. There is only one Upgrade available and that's from MS1 to MS2, and you do that by uploading the 'Install' folder to an existing website and then you go to http://www.yourdomain.com/install and choose the 'Upgrade' option. Remember to take a backup of your database first - just in case! Vger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 11, 2005 Share Posted December 11, 2005 Dear, My installation have this error too. You already have a solution ? thamks a lot, orengo I'm doing a new installation over server and got this error: The following error has occurred: The configuration files do not exist, or permission levels are not set. Please perform the following actions: cd /hsphere/local/home/orenji/domain.com/catalog/includes/ touch configure.php chmod 706 configure.php cd /hsphere/local/home/orenji/domain.com/catalog/admin/includes/ touch configure.php chmod 706 configure.php both files are set to 777 but installation still can't go thru, and anyone kindly explain what is 706? thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥Vger Posted December 11, 2005 Author Share Posted December 11, 2005 For the install to be able to write to the two includes/configure.php files the permissions on the folders (includes/) must also be set to 706, 755, or 777 (depends on server setup). Vger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 16, 2005 Share Posted December 16, 2005 Hey man that error i silly! :-) you should modify the includes/configure.php to fit your needs.. Plz help me ! ! ! I'm new with osCommerce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥Vger Posted December 16, 2005 Author Share Posted December 16, 2005 Plz help me ! ! ! I'm new with osCommerce So what is it you want to know? Vger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 17, 2005 Share Posted December 17, 2005 Vger, Great info in this topic too bad I didn't find it before I trudged through and figureed it out myself. Everything you said in this thread to move a site to root I had to figure out with liitle to no PHP experience. This is a great install and setup thread you have going . Thanks for being there for us newbies. Arthur Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 17, 2005 Share Posted December 17, 2005 How do I get rid of seesion post install? I have forced cookies and for the users it works but I still get teh sessions in admin mode. Anyone? Arthur Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blnd Posted December 17, 2005 Share Posted December 17, 2005 Thanks for all your help Vger. I have some questions for you too. Should I ask my host for ssl first before I install oscommerce or does it not matter what goes first? Do I need ssl at all? What if I use Paypal or 2CO? Lastly. Do I just get ssl from my host? I'm a little confused on how to obtain it. If you can give the basic steps for getting ssl up and running that would be great. Thanks again for all your help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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