Permissions problem with osCommerce Admin tools

[ptheis]

I installed osCommerce from my host's Website Administration tool (VDeck).

I followed the osCommerce instructions for changing file permissions.

I am able to edit files through my host's Admin tool, but am unable to edit files

using the osCommerce Admin tool. I get the following errors when trying

to edit files that have permissions set to allow me to write:

 

Error: I can not write to this file. Please set the right user permissions on: /home/tandanat/public_html/osCommerce/catalog//includes/languages/english/index.php

 

 

Another interesting thing that I see that may be unusual is the following string which

is the path in the osCommerce Admin tool that gets me to the index.php file listed above:

 

/home/tandanat/public_html/osCommerce/catalog//includes/languages/english

 

Notice the extra "/" before "includes" in the string. Is that normal?

 

Thanks in advance for any help.

Pete

[natewlew]

I have read in the forums here that you should not edit your store files from the admin section. Download a program like Filezilla and download your store files to your computer and edit them from there.

[ptheis]

I have read in the forums here that you should not edit your store files from the admin section. Download a program like Filezilla and download your store files to your computer and edit them from there.

 

Thanks for the advice. I surrender! If you're right, I think this osCommerce Admim tool is junk!