Installation Problems "unable to connect to database server!"

[AtomicVette]

Okay, I was following the installation document "documentation.pdf" which came with the software package.

 

Everything upladed fine, i was able to get to http://ste.badimagegraphics.com/catalog/install and start the installation procedure, but that's where the documentation and install fall apart.

 

I get this page. Everything appears okay on the page but it looks nothing like the install document describes.

 

 

 

 

after that I get this page, I put in all my information as shown.

 

 

Then I get this page.

I enter my info as shown

 

 

Then I get this page

I enter my info as show again.

 

 

 

Then this page comes up, I figured okay it worked pretty good.

 

 

If i click "Catalog" I get this.

 

 

If I click "Administration" I get this.

 

 

 

Here is my directory structure.

 

 

 

 

So all that bing said, is there an install document that actually follows the software correctly?

I had to manually edit the "configure.php" to get this far.

[Guest]

go to admin/includes/configure.php and check the database settings there

 

compare it with includes/configure.php

 

The database settings for the admin panel is wrong and not correct and so it is giving a database connection error while the front end catalog works.

 

you have correct database settings for the frontend in includes/configure.php

 

copy those database lines to admin/includes/configure.php

 

regards

[AtomicVette]

Okay, that got me a little further, I get the admin login page, but when I try to login it just takes me right back to the admin login page again. No error messages or anything.

 

Also what about my directory structure? to get the pictures to show up I have to pull all the directories down by one level. eg..

 

This is how the files unpacked and were uploaded:

 

-root

|_____Catalog

|_____ Admin

|_____ Download

|_____ EXT

|_____ images

|_____ includes

|_____ install

|_____ pub

 

this is how I had to re arrange them to get everything to work:

 

-root

|_____ Catalog

|_____ Admin

|_____ Download

|_____ EXT

|_____ images

|_____ includes

|_____ install

|_____ pub

 

Everything had to be on the same level as catalog.. is this a problem with one of my path statments or somthing in the configure.php file? or is this the way it's supposed to be setup?