Guest Posted June 9, 2003 Posted June 9, 2003 I'm trying to install oscommerce for the first time but keep running into an annoying error. I'm following the install instructions from http://wiki.oscommerce.com/helpInstallNew this time. I've tried a several install instructions, some using different directory structures, some with different permissions. The problem I'm getting is when I get to the place in the install where you need to run the install.php I always get slammed against an Internal Server 500 error. yourserver/catalog/install/install.php This seems like it should be a very common error, however I've not seen any documentation on how/where to fix it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you
Guest Posted June 9, 2003 Posted June 9, 2003 Are you installing at a Hosting provider or your own server ?
Guest Posted June 9, 2003 Posted June 9, 2003 You've upload the catalog and the admin ( myself i put admin in my catalog folder) you chmod both configure.php and your images folder to 777?
Guest Posted June 9, 2003 Posted June 9, 2003 yup :/ and all I keep seeing is: 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.
Guest Posted June 9, 2003 Posted June 9, 2003 you've got your answer right there .... a server error so contact your provider and explain problem The_Bear
Guest Posted June 10, 2003 Posted June 10, 2003 Just in case this problem pops up in the future here's the answer to it. Might be worth while to stick it in a troubleshooting FAQ.....but that's just my opinion :wink: The problems has been fixed by adding the php path in the files that require executions. for example: > #!/usr/local/php/bin/php > ini_set("register_globals",1) ; The "ini_set("register_globals",1) ;" is required since newer versions of PHP consider that the register_globals set to on is insecure. note: For PHP to work, "#!/usr/local/php/bin/php" must be included in the first line for those that are being directly executed (not necessary for the include/require ones). e.g. "require('templates/main_page.php');"
Eduardo Posted June 11, 2003 Posted June 11, 2003 Please, can you list all the files that need to modify ? http://www.guitaronline.it
Guest Posted June 11, 2003 Posted June 11, 2003 To get the install working "install.php" needs to be modified. Other than that I'm still working on it. Trying to figure out which files need to be modified with the code is getting a little messy, and I've had to reinstall the entire thing a few times. I've gotten the catalog to work, but links from that page are all pulling up 500 error's. The admin section I can get to display, but with to many page error's to consider near working. I may just scrap trying to get it working on this server and find a new host. It's to bad there isn't one spot to define these settings, and that it would work for the entire script. :? will keep you posted
Peterthecomputerguy Posted June 11, 2003 Posted June 11, 2003 I'm not sure exactly what is happening on your end, but I discovered something that may help. In the wiki docs it - where it tells you "what needs to be changed in application_top ..." - the information is correct, but the files to change is wrong (probably refers to an earlier version). The files to modify are "configure.php" in Both catalog and admin. Refer to that wiki doc (sorry I don't have the url handy - I'm doing some of this from home and some from a work location) and if you have everything correct you'll see a difference. If you have image problems look at the path to images/icons and a one or two others in the configure.php file. Hope this helps.
Peterthecomputerguy Posted June 11, 2003 Posted June 11, 2003 one more note: this is referring to the configure.php files after you do the install. it's easy to get a few things wrong during the install, but even easier to fix once you know where to look.
Guest Posted June 12, 2003 Posted June 12, 2003 hmmm couldn't pin point the section your talking about in the help files. Anyone know what/where this info is?
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