Catalog not working right

[JayTG]

Hi,

 

I am trying to get my oscommerce website back online but I have ran into a few problems in regards to the original catalog.

Originally I had made a backing of the site and taken it offline, just now I signed up for a new hosting account and transfered over the shop files.

Now, everything loads fine, the style is there, but the default OS catalog is what shows up, and none of the stuff that I have added in the past.

So, I was wondering what exactly I should check to get my catalog back to where it should be?

 

thanks

[willjoe86]

Hi,

 

I am trying to get my oscommerce website back online but I have ran into a few problems in regards to the original catalog.

Originally I had made a backing of the site and taken it offline, just now I signed up for a new hosting account and transfered over the shop files.

Now, everything loads fine, the style is there, but the default OS catalog is what shows up, and none of the stuff that I have added in the past.

So, I was wondering what exactly I should check to get my catalog back to where it should be?

 

thanks

 

You should just be able to restore your SQL backup file. Go to Admin, Tools, Backup.

[JayTG]

from the OS admin correct?

Also, that brings me to my second question, do you think it's looking for my old login information to the admin, because the new login will not work at all, I can't get logged into the admin section?

 

thanks again.

[Guest]

Try removing the .htaccess file from your admin folder, that should let you in, you will then have to reprotect your admin.

 

Backup the file first.

[JayTG]

Ok, I went to public_html/shop/admin and could not find a file in any relation to htaccess

 

:huh:

[bobg7]

It may not show in some ftp programs, try looking for it via your hosts control panel.

[JayTG]

Ok I can see it through my control panel, there's a htaccess and a htaccess2 should I get rid of both of them (and back them)?

[custodian]

Ok, I went to public_html/shop/admin and could not find a file in any relation to htaccess

 

:huh:

 

In your ftp program you may have to turn on the option to show "hidden" files; which is any file with a . in front of it.

[custodian]

Ok I can see it through my control panel, there's a htaccess and a htaccess2 should I get rid of both of them (and back them)?

 

2? hmm.. you could try swapping them and see if the .htaccess2 is the one that works with your current password that your trying to use.

 

And no, the plain old .htaccess (no 2) is the one that the server is looking at - either delete it or rename it

[JayTG]

Ok,

 

I got rid of the htaccess file and was able to open up the initial admin page, but from there nothing else would load.

The problem I think we are facing is that all the coding is still trying to call stuff from the old directories that no longer exists.

For example my old directory setup went like this public_html/rivalryleagues/tunerguys/shop

as it wasn't the main domain at the time.

 

Now it reads like this:

public_html/shop

 

But all of the coding is still trying to call information from directories that are no longer present. So the only way around this that I see is to manually go through and change all of that type of coding.

If so which files should I look for that would have that type of code in it?

 

 

thanks for all the help again

[custodian]

Ok,

 

I got rid of the htaccess file and was able to open up the initial admin page, but from there nothing else would load.

The problem I think we are facing is that all the coding is still trying to call stuff from the old directories that no longer exists.

For example my old directory setup went like this public_html/rivalryleagues/tunerguys/shop

as it wasn't the main domain at the time.

 

Now it reads like this:

public_html/shop

 

But all of the coding is still trying to call information from directories that are no longer present. So the only way around this that I see is to manually go through and change all of that type of coding.

If so which files should I look for that would have that type of code in it?

thanks for all the help again

 

 

You need to edit two configure.php files

 

one at

 

catalog/includes/configure.php

 

and the other

 

admin/includes/configure.php

[JayTG]

You need to edit two configure.php files

 

one at

 

catalog/includes/configure.php

 

and the other

 

admin/includes/configure.php

 

We do not have a

catalog/includes/configure.php

the only configure files we have are in the admin and are in the "boxes" folder

[custodian]

We do not have a

catalog/includes/configure.php

the only configure files we have are in the admin and are in the "boxes" folder

 

if you rstore is in root than it may be

 

/includes/configure.php

 

If it is not there, then the store may be set up on a local configuration which is

 

/catalog/local/configure.php

(again, if store is in root then /local/configure.php )

[custodian]

In the boxes folder?

 

The one in the admin./includes/boxes

 

is configuration.php

 

you are lookign for

 

configure.php not configuration.php