Installing OsCommerce to another path ?

[peterr]

Hi,

 

Because we are needing to evaluate a number of ECommerce products, I've setup a path called /ec/ , under the "public_html" path/directory.

 

The install with osC went reasonably smoothly, I took the short cut mentioned in the 'install' document and after creating the username,db, I simply imported the SQL file. Went okay, no errors. After a minor problem with needing a 444 on the file /catalog/includes/configure.php , the two error messages disappeared, and today I found out I also need to modify /admin/includes/configure.php also, which wasn't in the install, nor could I find it in the Wiki documentation.

 

Anyway, minor problems, it was an easy installation compared to others I've had to do. The site/store looks okay, but now that I need to use the 'admin' functions, the links are not relative paths, they expect the product (osC) to be installed in "public_html" path.

 

Because the website is used for other purposes, I don't want to install it in the web 'root', and there are other products to evaluate under the "ec" path. The "catalog" resolves to http://mydomain/ec/osCommerce/catalog/ , and I can see the catalog and products, etc, and order items, it looks and works okay.

 

The "admin" function resolves to http://mydomain/ec/osCommerce/catalog/admin/ , and but the admin links, for example "Configuration" resolves to:

 

http://mydomain/admin/configuration.php?se...tion&gID=MyIDno

 

Is there anything in the db to set the default path for osC to:

 

http://mydomain/ec/osCommerce/ ??

 

Thanks,

 

Peter

[Guest]

Try making the changes in your catalog/includes/configure.php

 

 

That should fix it,,,

 

 

 

 

Mike Spires

[peterr]

Hi Mike,

 

Try making the changes in your catalog/includes/configure.php

 

That should fix it,,,

 

For now, because I wanted to use the 'admin' function, I have only made changes to /catalog/admin/includes/configure.php , but I can see a few missing images here and there, so no doubt I will also change the file in the 'catalog' path as you suggested.

 

The changes were lines 20 and 21

 

define('DIR_FS_DOCUMENT_ROOT', '/home/username/public_html/ec/osCommerce'); // where your pages are located on the server. if $DOCUMENT_ROOT doesnt suit you, replace with your local path. (eg, /usr/local/apache/htdocs)
define('DIR_WS_ADMIN', '');

 

It was good to be able to use the admin function, added a few products, etc, ... great.

 

Thanks, :)

 

Peter