Installation paths

[Denver Dave]

I am revisiting Oscommerce. As I remember, one of the hardest parts to getting Oscommerce to run is getting the paths correct. This confusion seems to start the moment we unzip the installation files. We have path names like catalogcatalog and adminadmin . I don't pretend to be an Oscommerce expert, but wouldn't it make more since to have path names like oscommercecatalogincludes and oscommerceadminincludes ?

 

There also seems to be a tep_docs/documentation which contains php code not documentation.

 

At this point I'm renaming the top admin and catalog directories and moving the second level admin and catalog directories to right under the Oscommerce directories.

 

Or am I missing something obvious? How do others install? :shock:

[Aodhan]

I am revisiting Oscommerce.  As I remember, one of the hardest parts to getting Oscommerce to run is getting the paths correct.  This confusion seems to start the moment we unzip the installation files.  We have path names like catalogcatalog  and adminadmin .   I don't pretend to be an Oscommerce expert, but wouldn't it make more since to have path names like oscommercecatalogincludes and oscommerceadminincludes ?

 

There also seems to be a  tep_docs/documentation which contains php code not documentation.

 

At this point I'm renaming the top admin and catalog directories and moving the second level admin and catalog directories to right under the Oscommerce directories.

 

Or am I missing something obvious?  How do others install?  :shock:

 

I just took the adminadmin folder and contents and moved it directly under, like you did.

 

As far as documentation, go to www.oscdox.com, and download their documentation file. Gives all sorts of good info for installing, configuring, etc.

 

Aodhan

[Denver Dave]

Thank you very much for the reply. I assume that you did the same for catalog/catalog ?

 

Oscdox.com looks interesting.

 

I'm reconsidering Oscommerce and PhpShop. Are there any general rules of thumb for when one versus the other would be more appropriate.

 

As I recall, last time I looked at Oscommerce, it was somewhat tricky to know how to start without any products, since many of the tables have administrative functions.

 

Thanks for your help, the presence of a good discussion forum really helps.

[Denver Dave]

Other installation steps that I am trying:

 

(1) Delete all of the cvs directories.

 

(2) Delete all of the German and Spanish directories (may add back later)

 

Move the other items under the admin/ and catalog directory but above the second admin and catalog directories to an "extra parts" directory:

 

Hopefully, I now have an install kit and directory structure that I can FTP to my server and I won't need too may of the extra parts that I moved off. ... and it won't take as long to FTP. I'll post the result.

[Guest]

One of the first thing they say in the installation document is to use only the 2nd catalog and the 2nd admin when you upload

 

Regards

[Aodhan]

Thank you very much for the reply.  I assume that you did the same for catalog/catalog ?

 

Oscdox.com looks interesting.  

 

I'm reconsidering Oscommerce and PhpShop.  Are there any general rules of thumb for when one versus the other would be more appropriate.

 

As I recall, last time I looked at Oscommerce, it was somewhat tricky to know how to start without any products, since many of the tables have administrative functions.

 

Thanks for your help, the presence of a good discussion forum really helps.

 

Didn't ever try PhpShop.

 

On my server, I FTP'd catalogcatalog and adminadmin folders to catalog and admin respectively directly under the www root. Then during the install, I changed the catalogadmin option to admin.

 

The install script ran fine that way and had it going in about 5 minutes.

 

Aodhan