Newbie In Need Of Help :-)

[Guest]

Hey Everyone,

 

Ok so ive dived in at the deep end and decided that i want to try and build myself an ecommerce website. I have slowly been teaching bits and peaces over time but i am definately going to need some help on this project :-)

 

So i have found myself a webhost, got my domain name and have it pointing to my webhost. i downloaded the oscommerce software and uploaded to my webserver using smartftp to the public_html file.

 

Now so far so good, i thought i was doing well but then when i try to access the install folder through my web browser i get the following error message.

 

The webserver is not able to save the installation parameters to its configuration files.

 

The following files need to have their file permissions set to world-writeable (chmod 777):

 

/home/a2279709/public_html/includes/configure.php

/home/a2279709/public_html/admin/includes/configure.php

 

If any body can help me i would appreciate it and please remember i am no webmaster (well not anyways).

[Ken44]

Hi David.

 

Here's the quick install guide.

 

1. Create a blank database via your web hosting control panel.

 

2. Download the osCommerce 2.2 MS2 zip file from the downloads section of www.oscommerce.com, unzip it and extract the 'catalog' folder.

 

3. If you want your shop to be available at http://www.yourdomain.com/catalog then upload the whole of the catalog folder to the root directory of your website via FTP. If you want the site to be available at http://www.yourdomain.com then just upload all of the contents of the catalog folder, but not the folder itself.

 

All folders, including sub-folders, should be set to 755 except for the 'images' and 'graphs' folders which should be 777

 

4. Make sure that the permissions on all of the folders are set to 755, and if that does not work then set them to 777. Make sure that the includes/configure.php file and the admin/includes/configure.php file are set to 777 for the duration of the install Once the install is complete reset to 644, 444, or 400 depending on your server setup..

 

5. Then go to http://www.yourdomain.com/install and begin the install procedure. Your DB Server will probably be 'localhost', your db user name and password (for mysql access) will have been provided to you by your web hosting company. The name of the database you already know - because you just set it up. Do not enable SSL, elect to store sessions in the database and not files (untick the box), and do not enable persistent connections.

 

 

hope this helps

 

Regards

 

Ken

[Guest]

Thanks for that Ken

 

I have now removed the error and im on to the next page of the setup but i get the feeling this is going to be a lengthy process as I now have a problem linking to my database!!!

 

I put in all the required information that is required and i have checked that is all correct which as far as I can tell it is but when i click continue all i get is 'Testing database connection..' with the little spinning gear thingy.

 

If anybody has any ideas on how to rectify this please let me know :-)

 

Many Thanks In Advance

[Guest]

Ok sorted this now :-)

 

Wonder what will be next??????