First Installation Steps

[Guest]

I have downloaded both the .gz version for Linux/Unix and the Windows zipped version. I have uploaded the .gz version to my webspace, but am COMPLETELY CLUELESS about what to do now.

 

Any tips on how to get started would be most welcome - step by step stuff please!

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[codewarrior]

Fist of all you have to unzip your file.

 

Next Step "http://yourdomain/catalog/install"

 

The Installation wizzard is doing nearly all the work!!

[Guest]

Thanks for your response, but you've jumped to somewhere unkown to me! I have a Windows zipped version on my pc and the .gz version on my pc. Step 1? :unsure:

[Guest]

if you have 'shell access' to your webserver, then you can uncompress the files, else you will need to uncompress the files locally, then ftp them to your server.

[Guest]

OK, I feel like a complete dunce here... I am an experienced web person, HTML, CGI, etc, but I am starting from point zero with this, which anyone who knows what they're doing with osC has obviously forgotten about!

 

Do I uncompress the zipped Windows stuff locally, then upload. What's with the .gz file? Am I using both? If so how??? I am, as I explained earlier, looking for step-by-step instructions starting from point zero. I.E. I have downloaded oscommerce2.2ms2.tar.gz & oscommerce2.2ms2.zip, I have a host supporting MySQL & PHP, what do I do now (step-by-step please!)?

[Guest]

your best bet is to go through the documentation, for installation. you probably do not have shell access to do the uncompression on the server, so i would delete that file, and uncompress the zip file locally, then upload the files to your server.

 

install a localhost for testing, development, etc.

 

 

http://internetmaster.com/installtutorial/index.htm