timisnumber9 Posted March 25, 2004 Share Posted March 25, 2004 Hi, this may sound a little lame to some but i have to start somewhere! I am a complete novice when it comes to website design and want to learn so i am teaching myself (this could be dangerous!) I downloaded oscommerce 2.2ms2 and unziped it to my hard drive but dont know what to do next? How do i open it up, where do i start? can someone please point me in the right direction? Thankyou for listening, Tim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
furnitur Posted March 27, 2004 Share Posted March 27, 2004 have you received a reply Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozcsys Posted March 27, 2004 Share Posted March 27, 2004 Hi, this may sound a little lame to some but i have to start somewhere! I am a complete novice when it comes to website design and want to learn so i am teaching myself (this could be dangerous!) I downloaded oscommerce 2.2ms2 and unziped it to my hard drive but dont know what to do next? How do i open it up, where do i start? can someone please point me in the right direction? Thankyou for listening, Tim. Search is your friend install instructions The Knowledge Base is a wonderful thing. Do you have a problem? Have you checked out Common Problems? There are many very useful osC Contributions Are you having trouble with a installed contribution? Have you checked out the support thread found Here BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP!!! You did backup, right?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sand_danser Posted March 27, 2004 Share Posted March 27, 2004 I printed the installation instructions off & went thru them step by step. A couple of differences were found in the instructions & a couple of "what does that mean ?", server denial, domain nameservers re-directed a few times & I'm nearly done :D I'm stuck on having to .htaccess my admin directory so that it's p/w protected ?? All in all though I found that link ever so helpful and want to thankyou for your time & trouble in making it. ps:the link would look gr8 as a sticky ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkin005 Posted March 28, 2004 Share Posted March 28, 2004 Regarding .htaccess question (I think it was a question) I found the following links useful: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/htaccess.html http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/auth.html I ended up putting a single .htaccess file in my /admin/ directory. It looks like this: AuthType Basic AuthName "Administrator access only" AuthUserFile /home/some/directory/passwords Require user myAdminUser where 'myAdminUser' is whatever admin user name I want, and /home/some/directory/passwords is the location of my passwords file. I created this passwords file by following the auth.html article (see above) instructions: log on to a unix machine and type "htpasswd -c passwords" (without quotes), enter the username and password and the file is created. Then I copied the passwords file to the location on the server where I needed it. Then copy the .htaccess file to the directory to secure and bob's your uncle. I hope this helps. - Rory Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sand_danser Posted March 29, 2004 Share Posted March 29, 2004 Thanks for that Rory, I'll give it a go and report back as to how I get on B) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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