Newbie question

[StephenFlanagan]

Hi all, I'm sure this is a very basic question, but I just can't find an aswer :-(

 

I can go through all the installation steps, and everything seems to be fine until I click on the Administration Tool button on the 'The configuration was successful!' page.

 

Then it takes me to http://www.mysite.org/oscommerce/catalog/i...admin/index.php

 

Which is not a functioning web address. If I edit it so it reads:

 

http://www.mysite.org/oscommerce/catalog/admin/index.php

 

I get to the configuration page, i.e. this happens if I take out the 'www.mysite.org/oscommerce/catalog/install/', but all the links on this page have the same problem.

 

I think this is arising from step 4, where you fill in:

 

WWW Address

Webserver Root Directory:

HTTP Cookie Domain:

HTTP Cookie Path:

 

It seems to be the part that I enter in the first of these fields that is causing the trouble - if I leave it blank, the URL from the Administration Tool button almost works, in that it just has a an etxtra few slashes and a colon.

 

Any help is much appreciated, and sorry if is this is commonly asked and answered.

 

Thanks!

 

Steve

[♥Vger]

By Stage 4 those addresses should have been filled in for you.

 

When you run the install the only things you should need to input yourself are:

 

DB_Server, which is usually localhost

MySQL Password - the one you chose or which your host set up for you

MySQL User Name - as above

Database Name - the name of the blank database you created

 

Try running the install and leaving all settings alone except for the ones I've listed.

 

Vger

[StephenFlanagan]

Thanks for the help! Turns out my webhost has a one click install option for OS commerce, and now everything is working. I'm a bit at a loss though - I had already tried leaving both options as they were, and all the one-click install instructions asked me to change (that I had not tried already) was the cookie path.... Anyway, everything is good now!

 

Steve