CD? Touch? no configure.php? what now?

[Klaas Koopman]

I'm trying to install it but doesn't seem to work I get the following:

 

 

The configuration files do not exist, or permission levels are not set.

 

Please perform the following actions:

 

* cd /home/koopmanm/public_html/MobielDiscount/catalog/includes/

* touch configure.php

* chmod 706 configure.php

 

* cd /home/koopmanm/public_html/MobielDiscount/catalog/admin/includes/

* touch configure.php

* chmod 706 configure.php

 

what do they mean with cd /home/koopmanm/public_html/MobielDiscount/catalog/includes/

and the rest of this error?

[kwraight]

Hi,

 

Only just installed Oscommerce myself so forgive me if I get it wrong.

 

Using a ftp program navigate to the folder - MobielDiscount/catalog/admin/includes/ right click on configure.php and choose properties or CHMOD and from there you will be able to change the permissions to 706. This works if you are on linux server. if you are on a windows server it is slightly different and the only choices you get are read/write etc.

 

Do the same for MobielDiscount/catalog/includes/configure.php and this will correct the error.

 

If you are on a windows server search this forum for 'permission' setting or similar.

 

Hope this helps

 

Keith

[Klaas Koopman]

i don't have a configure.php there, i do have a configuration.php...

[♥Vger]

i don't have a configure.php there, i do have a configuration.php

 

You DO have TWO configure.php files.

 

One is

 

catalog/includes/configure.php

 

and the other is

 

catalog/admin/includes/configure.php

 

Vger

[Klaas Koopman]

seriously I got 1 configure.php in the includes folder. and a configuration.php at the admin/includes folder!

[octman]

seriously I got 1 configure.php in the includes folder. and a configuration.php at the admin/includes folder!

I am having the exact same problem. So what I did was use the "touch" command which is basically nothing more than creating a "blank configure.php" on the server; then trying to allow the server to 'write' to the config files. I chmoded the permissions to 706 then later to 777. Still the same error. I contacted my hosting company to see if the I had something wrong ; nothing. I would edit the config files manually but it is a bit confusing and after I uplaoded the manually edited files it still gave me the same error. I tried doing this a few ways maybe it is just me and my inexperience either way i can get the config files "written to"

 

New Installation

 

osCommerce Configuration

 

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/msoctman/razors-edge.us/includes/

* touch configure.php

* chmod 706 configure.php

 

* cd /hsphere/local/home/msoctman/razors-edge.us/admin/includes/

* touch configure.php

* chmod 706 configure.php

 

If chmod 706 does not work, please try chmod 777.

[Klaas Koopman]

I am having the exact same problem. So what I did was use the "touch" command which is basically nothing more than creating a "blank configure.php" on the server; then trying to allow the server to 'write' to the config files. I chmoded the permissions to 706 then later to 777. Still the same error. I contacted my hosting company to see if the I had something wrong ; nothing. I would edit the config files manually but it is a bit confusing and after I uplaoded the manually edited files it still gave me the same error. I tried doing this a few ways maybe it is just me and my inexperience either way i can get the config files "written to"

 

New Installation

 

osCommerce Configuration

 

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/msoctman/razors-edge.us/includes/

* touch configure.php

* chmod 706 configure.php

 

* cd /hsphere/local/home/msoctman/razors-edge.us/admin/includes/

* touch configure.php

* chmod 706 configure.php

 

If chmod 706 does not work, please try chmod 777.

 

 

weard, anyone who can help us out there?

[Guest]

Simple and fast... Go find the original configure.php files you DO have, chmod them to the correct settings. Try again.

[♥Vger]

It may also be that the permissions on the 'includes' folders are not set correctly. They should be 755, and if that doesn't work then use 777.

 

Vger

[Klaas Koopman]

tried both, still same error!

[nivo]

I had issues like you guys mentioned but then I realized that there indeed was 2 configure.php files, I had been altering the configuration.php.

 

so i re installed the configuration.php file found in: catalog/admin/configuration.php

 

and took notice of the other 2.

 

catalog/admin/includes/configure.php

 

and

 

catalog/includes/configure.php

[cmjennings21]

i don't have a configure.php there, i do have a configuration.php...

 

Did you resolve your problem? I had similar issue but found the configure file by drilling down throught the includes folder. Do the 777 bit on that file and hey presto

[Klaas Koopman]

seems when I unpacked the zip there was an error ( i got the zip file from a while ago from someone else so... )

 

but now i redownloaded it and tried it and fixed it, but now i got this error:

 

Warning: I am able to write to the configuration file: /home/koopmanm/public_html/MobielDiscount/includes/configure.php. This is a potential security risk - please set the right user permissions on this file.

 

to what should i chmod this?

[ozcsys]

seems when I unpacked the zip there was an error ( i got the zip file from a while ago from someone else so... )

 

but now i redownloaded it and tried it and fixed it, but now i got this error:

 

Warning: I am able to write to the configuration file: /home/koopmanm/public_html/MobielDiscount/includes/configure.php. This is a potential security risk - please set the right user permissions on this file.

 

to what should i chmod this?

 

Depending on your server setup 444 or 644 Try the 444 first