Save yourself some effort

[Masterlubu]

I am new to the forums and new to OSCommerce, it's important to establish that up front.

 

Last week I began to install OSCommerce on my server running Win 2k3 and IIS.

 

I had a week of hell. Banging my head on the walls for locked up this or bad install that. Editing code to change variables and server connection strings. It was a nightmare trying to recreate the setup from a few guides that were created.

 

Today, I said to hell with IIS. I took Vger's advice and downloaded Xampp. I completely uninstalled IIS, MySQL and Php from my server. Ran the Xampp install package. Dropped in OSCommerce and followed Vger's install guide.

 

I was done with installation in approximately 5 minutes. No errors to report at any stage of the install.

 

The moral of this story is simple. Don't waste your time and resources trying to make this program work with IIS. Maybe if you are good enough you can get it to work, I apparently am not.

 

I am now up and running and ready to start customizing my installation. The Xampp method was by far easier and more straight forward than any IIS installation I have ever done.

 

Thank you Vger, for your wonderful guide and the many many posts you answer here!! :thumbsup:

[bkellum]

I am new to the forums and new to OSCommerce, it's important to establish that up front.

 

Last week I began to install OSCommerce on my server running Win 2k3 and IIS.

 

I had a week of hell. Banging my head on the walls for locked up this or bad install that. Editing code to change variables and server connection strings. It was a nightmare trying to recreate the setup from a few guides that were created.

 

Today, I said to hell with IIS. I took Vger's advice and downloaded Xampp. I completely uninstalled IIS, MySQL and Php from my server. Ran the Xampp install package. Dropped in OSCommerce and followed Vger's install guide.

 

I was done with installation in approximately 5 minutes. No errors to report at any stage of the install.

 

The moral of this story is simple. Don't waste your time and resources trying to make this program work with IIS. Maybe if you are good enough you can get it to work, I apparently am not.

 

I am now up and running and ready to start customizing my installation. The Xampp method was by far easier and more straight forward than any IIS installation I have ever done.

 

Thank you Vger, for your wonderful guide and the many many posts you answer here!! :thumbsup:

Hello Andy and thanks for the follow up post above. By the way, which version of Xampp did you use and did you install this on Windows XP? Can you send me a link to the version of Xampp that you used? I have a client that does not wish to install MySQL, PHP, Apache individually (as suggested by PHP.net) but wants a triad type setup as you used.

Thanks in advance,

Bill Kellum

[MagickWomyn]

I'm using Version 1.53 and have had no problems. I read somewhere that a later version had some problems. Just make sure to follow the directions to switch to php4.

 

HTH

[Masterlubu]

I downloaded and used Xampp 1.60a.

 

I didn't have any problems with installation, nor do I have any issues viewing the site from the server.

 

I do however have one little problem. It appears that images aren't being loaded on external client machines, lilke my desktop. So once I figure out why the /images folder isn't being seen or used for clients, I think I'll have it all figured out and running.