Brand new to OS

[maxelcat]

Hi

Been recommended to use osCommerce in my first attempts to set up a store.

My hosting company had this as one of thier scripts, so I installed using my host. I was asked a lot of questiopns about store name, password and so on. I wrote down all the info!

 

ANyway, when I try to get to my shop at www/maxelcat.co.uk/maxelshop/admin I get this:

 

Server Requirement Error: register_globals is disabled in your PHP configuration. This can be enabled in your php.ini configuration file or in the .htaccess file in your catalog directory.

 

NOw I can't find a directory called catalog anywhere in the installation.

 

What do I do now?

 

THanks in advance

 

Edward

[spax]

Your maxelshop directory is the catalog directory, only re-named. You probably won't have access to the php.ini file on a shared server but you can try adding

 

php_flag register_globals on

 

to your .htaccess file in the maxelshop directory.

 

If that doesn't work for you, you can apply the Register Globals Patch, available in the contributions section.

[maxelcat]

I think I have worked out that the word catalog refers to the name of my store????

 

Anyway, if it does I hvae found a .htaccess file in a folder with the name of my store.

 

it looks like the below. Plese tell me what I should change.

 

many thanks

 

# $Id: .htaccess,v 1.3 2003/06/12 10:53:20 hpdl Exp $
#
# This is used with Apache WebServers
#
# For this to work, you must include the parameter 'Options' to
# the AllowOverride configuration
#
# Example:
#
# <Directory "/usr/local/apache/htdocs">
#   AllowOverride Options
# </Directory>
#
# 'All' with also work. (This configuration is in the
# apache/conf/httpd.conf file)

# The following makes adjustments to the SSL protocol for Internet
# Explorer browsers

<IfModule mod_setenvif.c>
 <IfDefine SSL>
SetEnvIf User-Agent ".*MSIE.*" \
		 nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown \
		 downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0
 </IfDefine>
</IfModule>

# If Search Engine Friendly URLs do not work, try enabling the
# following Apache configuration parameter
#
# AcceptPathInfo On

# Fix certain PHP values
# (commented out by default to prevent errors occuring on certain
# servers)
#
#<IfModule mod_php4.c>
#  php_value session.use_trans_sid 0
#  php_value register_globals 1
#</IfModule>

[maxelcat]

That worked

 

I ahve access to some sort of control panel

 

wow