rdoylelmt Posted February 11, 2003 Share Posted February 11, 2003 I have a problem which I suspect is because the contribution used is based on the snapshot-20020729. After the install, I go to the Administration>Catalog and in the left side box in the listings are: Categories/Products Products Attributes Manufacturers Reviews Specials Products Expected BOX_CATALOG_DEFINE_MAINPAGE When I <click on> BOX_CATALOG_DEFINE_MAINPAGE there is an error message: ERROR_FILE_NOT_WRITEABLE The only button underneath the page?s textbox is a ?back? button. My osCommerce is a snapshot-20030209 install. I have double-checked that I have followed the instructions of both the install.txt and manualhack.txt. Does anyone have any idea on what the solution is? Thanks in advance, Robb Quote robb(at)buckheadbodyworks.com www.buckheadbodyworks.com-Atlanta's advanced massage therapy www.amtaga.org-Georgia's Professional Massage Therapists Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattice Posted February 11, 2003 Share Posted February 11, 2003 You have not included the defines in application_top.php. Furthermore your mainpage.php file(s) in your language(s) directory isn't writable by the webserver, you'll have to change the permissions on that. Mattice Quote "Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rdoylelmt Posted February 11, 2003 Author Share Posted February 11, 2003 I changed the permissions on mainpage.php from 755 to 777 and the error message is gone and the "send" button is displayed. Actually I had included the defines in both application_top.php files. BOX_CATALOG_DEFINE_MAINPAGE is still displayed in the left side box when I go to Admin>Catalog. I can live with that even though it "ain't pretty";-) Thank you Mattice and Steven for making the usage of this contribution possible! Robb Quote robb(at)buckheadbodyworks.com www.buckheadbodyworks.com-Atlanta's advanced massage therapy www.amtaga.org-Georgia's Professional Massage Therapists Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattice Posted February 11, 2003 Share Posted February 11, 2003 So you have in application_top.php on Admin side: define('BOX_CATALOG_DEFINE_MAINPAGE', 'Define Mainpage'); Might be a spelling error, or perhaps the define is called different in app_top... Otherwise just hardcode it in the box. Mattice Quote "Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rdoylelmt Posted February 11, 2003 Author Share Posted February 11, 2003 Hello Mattice, I did not have that define in the file. I have included it and now it displays properly in the Admin left side box. However, it appears that the install.txt in Define Mainpage v1.2 needs to be corrected. Thanks, Robb I have copied the instructions that are in the install.txt file below: ====================================================== define_mainpage v1.2 OSC CVS 2.2 Addon Description: This minor hack lets you define the contents of the main catalog page through the Admin side of OSC. It supports the editing of the different languages/pages. Its basically a copy of define_languages.php so all credit for this thing should go to the OSC development team. I didn't write it, I just recycled it in a creative way ;) This release includes 3 mainpage examples (one for each distro language) so you can get an idea of what this code can do. Obviously you can do all this without this hack but this makes your editing and life in general a lot easier. Install it and you'll see what I mean. This addon is released under the GNU licence. If you find any bugs, improvements or valueable loot you'd like to share drop me a line at [email protected] [email protected] ========================================================= Installation notes: _________________________________________________________ 1) Backup your catalog/admin php files (optional but wise) _________________________________________________________ 2) Copy the mainpage.php files into place: catalog/includes/language/english/mainpage.php catalog/includes/language/german/mainpage.php catalog/includes/language/espanol/mainpage.php Make sure the permissions are set correctly!! In unix/linux: chown -R nobody.nobody catalog/includes/languages/* chmod -R 700 catalog/includes/languages/* (Do the same for other installed languages if desired) _________________________________________________________ 3) Edit admin/includes/languages/english.php and add: define('BOX_CATALOG_DEFINE_MAINPAGE', 'Define Main page'); (Do the same for other installed languages if desired) _________________________________________________________ 4) Edit admin/includes/application_top.php and add: define('FILENAME_DEFINE_MAINPAGE', 'define_mainpage.php'); _________________________________________________________ 5) Edit catalog/includes/application_top.php and add: define('FILENAME_MAINPAGE', 'mainpage.php'); _________________________________________________________ 6) Files that need to be replaced / altered are: catalog/default.php admin/includes/boxes/catalog.php If you have made modifications to these files yourself already you can read how to change them manually in the MANUALHACK file. Otherwise just copy them in place. _________________________________________________________ 7) If you've finished step 6 point your browser to your catalog tadaaa... next check the admin and play around! _________________________________________________________ PLEASE NOTE THAT SOME ERRORS ARE CAUSED BY A MISSING TRAILING SLASH (/) IN admin/includes/configure.php FOR THE DEFINITION, IT SHOULD LOOK LIKE THIS: define('DIR_FS_CATALOG', /path/to/your/catalog/'); THIS IS CAUSED BY WRONG INPUT ON INSTALL OR A CVS BUG. IT WILL ALSO PREVENT THE LANGUAGE DEFINE TOOL FROM WORKING. © //attice 06-April-2002 DTPM File have all been corrected and also there are examples of the application top and the english.php....i have encluded Define Main page ins all the php files so that confusion may not occur if you wish to manaul edit this files....which is strongly suggested All files have been edited and test on the current snapshot Steven Pignataro ([email protected]) July 29, 2002 Quote robb(at)buckheadbodyworks.com www.buckheadbodyworks.com-Atlanta's advanced massage therapy www.amtaga.org-Georgia's Professional Massage Therapists Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stretchr Posted June 16, 2003 Share Posted June 16, 2003 Hello Mattice, I'm using 2.2MS1 and have changed the mainpage.php permissions to 777 but when I try to open the admin link to edit, all I get is the /forbidden.php file in the URL and the page displays HEADING_TITLE NAVBAR_TITLE TEXT_MAIN and a back button. I'm stumped. Can you offer any suggestions? I really want this mod working. Thanks! You have not included the defines in application_top.php.Furthermore your mainpage.php file(s) in your language(s) directory isn't writable by the webserver, you'll have to change the permissions on that. Mattice Quote "It's a small world... But I wouldn't want to paint it!" Stephen Wright Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattice Posted June 16, 2003 Share Posted June 16, 2003 Hmmm.. that's odd. I've succesfully installed it on MS1 the other day. Does your system allow you to change the regular languages through define_languages? Mattice Quote "Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stretchr Posted June 16, 2003 Share Posted June 16, 2003 I had only English installed and I've temporarily removed the mod while I try to figure out what happened. I looked through all the posts for your mod on here and hadn't seen the 'forbidden.php' problem before so I thought I'd start by asking you. I've been coding for many hours straight so it's also possible that I made some error along the way, I suppose. When I get time I'll give it another go. Cheers! Hmmm.. that's odd.I've succesfully installed it on MS1 the other day. Does your system allow you to change the regular languages through define_languages? Mattice Quote "It's a small world... But I wouldn't want to paint it!" Stephen Wright Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattice Posted June 16, 2003 Share Posted June 16, 2003 I have never seen the forbidden.php - that's not in my mod - or am I missing something here? Mattice Quote "Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stretchr Posted June 16, 2003 Share Posted June 16, 2003 I had to search to remember where it came from. It's from Admin Account w/Access level 1.2. The original author misspelled the file as forbiden.php. Being an english major it drove me crazy having a misspelled file so I changed everything to forbidden.php. Of course when I searched for the file in my archive area I couldn't find it because all the archives are unmodified files. :oops: At any rate, that's where the it comes from. Now that you bring that up, I should probably look into what effect that mod may be having. Thanks for the reply. Cheers, I have never seen the forbidden.php - that's not in my mod - or am I missing something here? Mattice Quote "It's a small world... But I wouldn't want to paint it!" Stephen Wright Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattice Posted June 16, 2003 Share Posted June 16, 2003 It will be in some way - not sure but I think you have to set permissions (through the DB) on each file in the Admin dir - mine being a "new" and unknown file could cause it to deny you the permission to execute it. Mattice Quote "Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stretchr Posted June 17, 2003 Share Posted June 17, 2003 That's possible I guess. I did try to execute the file directly using hte URL but I got denied. When I CHMOD 777 I think I got some kind of error but I can't remember what it was right now. As I said, I'd been coding all day so I may also be guilty of making a mistake in the install. It's an excellent mod so I'm definately going to try again. Thanks for the replies! Cheers, Quote "It's a small world... But I wouldn't want to paint it!" Stephen Wright Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stonejunkie Posted July 10, 2003 Share Posted July 10, 2003 OK, can anyone help me with this problem? The default mainpage won't appear on my oscommerce site when I initially log on to it like this: "www.mywebpage.com/osc/catalog" though the default mainpage *will* appear if I follow the "catalog" link in the header navigation bar (where the link specifically requests ../osc/catalog/default.php) hope that makes sense. any ideas? thanks! i'd be lost without the forums here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ibandyop Posted July 11, 2003 Share Posted July 11, 2003 OK, can anyone help me with this problem? The default mainpage won't appear on my oscommerce site when I initially log on to it like this: "www.mywebpage.com/osc/catalog" though the default mainpage *will* appear if I follow the "catalog" link in the header navigation bar (where the link specifically requests ../osc/catalog/default.php) hope that makes sense. any ideas? thanks! i'd be lost without the forums here! I understand this may be fixed in MS2 where index.php replaces default.php What you need is redirection. There are 3-4 ways to do this. A search engine friendly way, but not elegant way to do this is. 1. create a file called .htaccess at your document root.(e.g. /httpdocs/.htaccess) if not already there. 2. In .htaccess add this at the top of the file. # go directly to this file. when www.mywebpage.com is accessed. DirectoryIndex ./osc/catalog/default.php 3. Set appropiate file permissions. i.e., from FTP or another utility set permissions of .htaccess to 755 if it is not already set. 4. Test. This is one of may ways to do it. -ib Quote ibandyop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥Gyakutsuki Posted September 19, 2003 Share Posted September 19, 2003 Hello ! I have a problem with mainpage and ssl. My files are on 2 differents server one on http://www.bleu-lavande.com another on https://www.bleu-lavande.com (ssl server) When i try to change a text via my administration panel with mainpage. The update text is on https://www.bleu-lavande.com and no on http://www.bleu-lavande.com You can have the difference on this page http://www.bleu-lavande.com.eu/catalog/ https://www.bleu-lavande.com/eu/catalog/ The diffrence between the two is '.' after 'directeur' Could you help me solve this problem. Is it a bug on mainpage on just a little pb to solve ? How to save the text in the same time at NONSSL and SSL ? Quote Regards ----------------------------------------- Loïc Contact me by skype for business Contact me @gyakutsuki for an answer on the forum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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