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Am I just dense or something?


Charms

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I don't know what the blazes it is that I am doing wrong but nothing I try seems to let me install oscommerce. I have tried following the directions but nothing works. All i get is a file not found error. I am about ready to tear my hair out over this as I had the same problem when I tried to use zen-cart. Will someone please guide me to the proper instructions before I go more insane that I already feel like I am??

 

Thanks,

Charms

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Write down step by step, what you are doing, then someone will say were your going wrong.

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followoing the new installation instructions, I:

(a) uploaded the catalog directory to my document root folder

(B) created the database using the tools provided by my webhosting service and made note of the names, etc.

© opened my web browser

(d) typed in http://myserver/catalog/install didn't work

(e) tried http://myserver/catalog/install/install which also didn't work

(f) tried every other possible combination of (d) and/or (e) also with no results.

 

Now what?

 

Charms

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followoing the new installation instructions, I:

(a) uploaded the catalog directory to my document root folder

(B) created the database using the tools provided by my webhosting service and made note of the names, etc.

© opened my web browser

(d) typed in http://myserver/catalog/install didn't work

(e) tried http://myserver/catalog/install/install which also didn't work

(f) tried every other possible combination of (d) and/or (e) also with no results.

 

Now what?

 

Charms

Try "http://myserver/catalog/install/index

Frederick C Brace,III PA-C

www.21st-tees.com (osc)

www.tanda-designs.com (osc)

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on your server there is a directory called 'public_html' (or similar)

 

you must upload all files there, so when you look with ftp you have public_html/catalog etc etc

Sam

 

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and can you see the files there with ftp?

Sam

 

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when you look in the catalog directory do you see the likes if index.php

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the you enter www.mydomain.com/catalog the browser will load that automatically, assuming its the only index file there.

 

You did upload the entire distribution?

 

are you entering your url correctly?

 

are your nameservers pointing your domain name to your server

Sam

 

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I reloaded all of it and i feel like i lost ground instead of gained. I am going to leave it for a while and come back. maybe it will make more sense in a couple of hours.

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A simple test for you, copy the following into a emty file and save it as index.html, then upload that to the root of your site (public_html) then put in your domain name, if you don`t see the message your not looking at your web space.

 

 

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

<html>
<head>
<title>HOME PAGE TEST</title>
</head>
<body>
<font size="large">THIS IS MY HOME PAGE<br />
<br />
If I see nothing I`m not looking in the right place!!!!</font>


</body>
</html>

Sam

 

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Hi Sam. I know my webpage works because it is up right now but without the shopping cart I need to put on it. I swear, I have never had so much trouble with something in all my life! I am going tolet it reast for the weekend and start back with it on Monday.

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Hi out there. I am back again for at least a little while. The last time I tried to install os, tghis is the last error message I got:

 

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

 

Please contact the server administrator, [email protected] and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

 

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

 

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

 

 

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

Apache/2.2.10 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.10 OpenSSL/0.9.8b mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 Server at artisticcharms.com Port 80

 

 

Any suggestions on what it is I need to do?

 

Charms

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Have you checked that php & sql are both available on your server, if so what versions are they?

Sam

 

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mySQL is version 4.1.22 and as for php, I know it is there but the only thing I can find is phpMyAdmin version 2.11.9.4. I do know that php is available on the server because I can find where it lists a number of modules that are installed. Does this info help you?

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Copy this into an empty file, save as test.php & upload to your root, open the file in your browser, what do you get?

 

<?php

phpinfo();

?>

Sam

 

Remember, What you think I ment may not be what I thought I ment when I said it.

 

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Auto Backup your Database, Easy way

 

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Copy this into an empty file, save as test.php & upload to your root, open the file in your browser, what do you get?

 

<?php

phpinfo();

?>

 

Hi....i had this kind of problems too.....and i can't found out what's the problems at all....i had try to create the index.html and i saw the words but test.php i saw the error 404 - files or directory not found again :(

 

 

here is the picture......

 

teleport.jpg

 

anyone know how to fix this problems plz help me....thanks

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Hi....is php4 and i can switch to php if require......

Switch to php5

 

You must have copied the test.php to the wrong place if you got the 404 error.

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