moved servers again - changed config files - still not working

[jevinder]

Hi,

 

I've had oscommerce installed for a long time on a windows server and it was working great - i had even changed the write permissions of the necessary oscomm files by chmod on that server.

 

i recently had to change database passwords because of a security breach at my hosting company, and i uploaded the new config files with the new details. when i uploaded them, i had the message that i was able to write to certain directories, therefore i needed to change permissions again, as they had defaulted back to 700. so i attempt that using cute ftp, and now i'm told that the windows servers don't now accept chmod commands (why? why did they work on it before?), so i have to move the site to linux servers which i have done.

 

so now i have to change the directory paths in the config files again!!!

 

this is what i have:

admin/includes/configure.php

 

define('DIR_FS_DOCUMENT_ROOT', '//home/fhlinux160/r/xxx.com/user/htdocs/catalog/'); // where the pages are located on the server

define('DIR_WS_ADMIN', '/catalog/admin/'); // absolute path required

define('DIR_FS_ADMIN', '//home/fhlinux160/r/xxx.com/user/htdocs/catalog/admin/'); // absolute pate required

define('DIR_WS_CATALOG', '/catalog/'); // absolute path required

define('DIR_FS_CATALOG', '//home/fhlinux160/r/xxx.com/user/htdocs/catalog/'); // absolute path required

 

and:

includes/configure.php

 

define('DIR_FS_CATALOG', '//home/fhlinux160/r/xxx.com/user/htdocs/catalog/');

 

 

now when i go to xxx.com/catalog or xxx.com/catalog/admin i'm getting the error:

Warning: require(includes/configure.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/fhlinux160/r/xxx.com/user/htdocs/catalog/includes/application_top.php on line 31

 

Warning: require(includes/configure.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/fhlinux160/r/xxx.com/user/htdocs/catalog/includes/application_top.php on line 31

 

Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'includes/configure.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear-php5') in /home/fhlinux160/r/xxx.com/user/htdocs/catalog/includes/application_top.php on line 31

 

this is what i have in the application_top.php file:

30 // include server parameters

31 require('includes/configure.php');

 

and even if i change the server paths by only using one slash at the front, or removing the word 'home' altogether i still get the same errors.

 

can anybody shed light on this please?

 

thanks in advance

jon

[jevinder]

bump

[digilee]

don't bump, you'll hurt yourself.

 

For various reasons I have had to move a few OSC installs to different servers.

Each time I found this the easiest way was:

- Back-up database on old server

- Back-up site on old server

- Create a default osc install on the new server

- Drop all tables in the new database (using phpmyadmin)

- Upload site to new server

- Import database to new server (using phpmyadmin)

 

It always seems to work for me.

 

I think there is also a forum thread about this but I have never read it.

[Guest]

Hi,

 

I've had oscommerce installed for a long time on a windows server and it was working great - i had even changed the write permissions of the necessary oscomm files by chmod on that server.

 

i recently had to change database passwords because of a security breach at my hosting company, and i uploaded the new config files with the new details. when i uploaded them, i had the message that i was able to write to certain directories, therefore i needed to change permissions again, as they had defaulted back to 700. so i attempt that using cute ftp, and now i'm told that the windows servers don't now accept chmod commands (why? why did they work on it before?), so i have to move the site to linux servers which i have done.

 

so now i have to change the directory paths in the config files again!!!

 

this is what i have:

admin/includes/configure.php

and:

includes/configure.php

now when i go to xxx.com/catalog or xxx.com/catalog/admin i'm getting the error:

this is what i have in the application_top.php file:

and even if i change the server paths by only using one slash at the front, or removing the word 'home' altogether i still get the same errors.

 

can anybody shed light on this please?

 

thanks in advance

jon

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[♥Vger]

Windows servers never accepted CHMOD commands - because CHMOD is Apache (Unix/Linux operating systems) specific.

 

Your real problem is that you are hosted with Fasthosts.

 

To get the correct DIR_FS pathway do this:

 

1. Create a new text document on your desktop and rename it to cwd.php

2. Put this code in it and upload to your 'catalog' folder:

<?php
$p = getcwd();
echo $p;
?>

3. Go to that file in your Browser and it will print out your DIR_FS_CATALOG pathway on the screen e.g. http://www.yourdomain.com/catalog/cwd.php

4. Use what you see on the screen as your DIR_FS_CATALOG pathway

5. Delete the cwd.php file after use - but keep a note of the pathway.

 

Cute FTP is total c**p, so use FileZilla (free) or WS FTP Home (free 30 day trial) instead. If you use the Firefox Browser then the Fire FTP add-on is also good.

 

Vger