Local installation

[Guest]

Hi all

 

I have successfully installed oscommerce on the back of my webspace with no problems. I do the development work on my own machine and usually install any php/mysql apps on it with no probs. I cannot get oscommerce to work however.

 

I have been told it may be a session problem. But the fix for local machines is to use database storage. I tried reinstalling and ensuring this option is chosen... this didn't fix the problem. The header loads and then within a moment it seems to refresh to a standard error page.

 

This is the same problem I had with the previous release. Does this sound familiar to anyone? Any help greatly appreciated.

[jpf]

Which verion are you loading? Did you try loading a fresh UNMODED copy? Did you follow the instructuions EXACTLY? What is the "standard error page"?

[mortsahl]

You trying to run on Linux or Windows?

[Guest]

Hi chaps

 

I'm installing the 2.2 milestone locally on an xp box under apache and fairly recent versions of php and mysql (I have about a dozen apps working locally so can't foresee it being a problem with my webserver)

 

The error is a generic ie error message when a page is not found 'cannot access page' , not an actual 404 server error message or anything.

 

I have reinstalled from scratch 3 times now with exactly the same problem:

 

The install is succesful, going to localhost/catalog/ produces the normal installation errors at the header referring to file attributes, then the top navigation bar and then usually the top logo... then the file not found page loads. If I navigate back it loads a bit more of the main page each time I reload/back... and if I stop the load then I can see the whole page except for the footer... what I see depends how quick I am with the stop button!

 

I can only suppose that there is an element being called to the footer area of the index page which is not found and then loads up a whole new not found page.

 

What do you think then people? Am I a donut? Or what? (I suppose that if none of the many billions of usrs experience the same thing then yes... I am a donut!)