Please help: Moving application to localhost

[sette]

Hello, could someone please kindly help me here?

 

I was asked to modify an existing osCommerce application. Since I obviously

don't want to fiddle around on the life system, I thought that I should download

the web app on my local PC. To this, I have first installed XAMPP, as this has

PHP and MySql included. Then I downloaded the app. Also I made a DB export

on the web server, downloaded the resulting text file, and ran the generated

SQL commands via mysql.

 

Then I went to my local copy of the shop page via http://localhost/.

 

Not surprisingly, I get MySql error - the application needs

somehow to interact with the database, and it can't know

userid, password and other administrative information, can it?

 

Checking the osCommerce docs, I found that the database needs to

be set up by pointing the web server to catalog/admin, but there

was no http://localhost/catalog/admin (so I suspect the version of

osCommerce running for this customer does not match the documentation

I downloaded from the osCommerce site).

 

Now I am stuck. How can I find out what osCommerce version is running

there? And more importantly, how can I specify how osCommerce attaches

to the database? I had expected there to be some kind of INI file specifying

the database parameters, but I was not able to find one...

 

Sette

[spax]

Not surprisingly, I get MySql error - the application needs

somehow to interact with the database, and it can't know

userid, password and other administrative information, can it?

 

It will know if you tell it.

 

Have you changed the 2 configure files so the app knows what to look for, where to look for it and what username/password to connect with?

[sette]

Thank you for your reply!

 

> Have you changed the 2 configure files so the app knows what to look for,

> where to look for it and what username/password to connect with?

 

 

I already suspected that there must be some configuration file

in osCommerce somewhere, but I didn't find anything in the docs.

In the documentation, the installation and setup instructions

only describe how to set up via a browser (and as I said in my

posting, this did not work). Could you please let me know where

these configuration files are?

[spax]

The files are includes/configure.php and admin/includes/configure.php

[sette]

The files are includes/configure.php and admin/includes/configure.php

 

Thanks a lot, and I'm sorry if my question sounded a bit silly. It's

the first time that I'm exposed to osCommerce and PHP ;-)

 

I found the two files, and also the define sections relating to the

database. Just out of curiosity: Do you happen to know why

osCommerce has two configure.php files with identical content

in different directories? Isn't such a redundancy a bit dangerous?

 

Kind regards,

 

Sette

[spax]

No worries, once you are familiar with osC, you will see the file structure is quite logical.

 

As far as the configure files go, redundant I would probably agree with, although I'm not too sure about dangerous. MS3, when it is finally stable, does away with the admin configure file.

[sette]

Thanks a lot for your helping!