Can't Install - going crazy!

[Guest]

I am installing oscommerce for the first time, I have everypossible - SQL, Apache, PHP program installed and running - I am running Windows XP - Am following all documentation (on wiki) to a tee regarding installation - have copied the 'catalog' directory to the webroot path of my webserver etc., yet when I go to

 

http://[mysite]/catalog/install - and nothing happens????? - I get the following error message:-

 

Not Found

The requested URL /catalog/install was not found on this server.

 

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

 

 

This is where I get stuck and can't figure out what I am supposed to be doing next

 

my site is - scrapartfusion.com and the default site is there but I can't for the life of me figure out how to get in and make it my own.

 

I have spent all night installing software over and over and trying to figure out what I am doing wrong - any help would be greatly appreciated!!!

[Adyx]

http://www.scrapartfusion.com/catalog/

 

Thats working fine from what i can see ;)

 

Also :

http://www.scrapartfusion.com/catalog/admin/

 

Will let you get in and make custom edits..

 

Make sure you password protect your admin directory,

and it would be good policy to move it out of the catalog directory.

Or rename it something less obvious then admin.

 

If you rename it, you need to reflect the name change in your

configure.php files

 

Hope that helps ;)

[Guest]

you don't know how excited I am now!!!!

 

Thank you so much - I was about to give up on the whole thing - thanks for the mising link - in all the docs I could not find any reference about going to my admin folder - and there it was all along!!!!

 

http://www.scrapartfusion.com/catalog/admin/

 

my faith is restored!!!!!

[jimwh]

Make sure you password protect your admin directory, and it would be good policy to move it out of the catalog directory. Or rename it something less obvious then admin.

 

If you rename it, you need to reflect the name change in your

configure.php files

If you move your admin directory, would you need to update its new location in the same file you reference, or no?

It would still need to be in your public www folder, though, correct?

[Adyx]

In theory you could move the admin folder outside root...

or even to another server..

it's all a matter of getting the correct paths in your configure.php files.

 

Say you renamed your admin directory : shopedit

and it was on the same server.

 

you need to make sure that the reference to /admin/ changes to

/shopedit/

 

Normally, the error message you get if you make a mistake,

can be very handy, as it displays the non found path...

check that against the real location and then edit your configure file to match.

 

Hope that helps.. ;)

 

Incidentally, if you move admin to another server, the call to the database server,

looks like it needs to be the FULL url.. I.E if your database is on server A and the connection is normally localhost.. Server B localhost is not the same thing..

[Adyx]

Oops.. sorry i mised your question..

 

Re: If you move your admin directory, would you need to update its new location in the same file you reference, or no?

 

 

Yes... you need to do that..

so if the configure.php file was originally pathed to /catalog/admin/

 

and you move the admin directory out of the catalog directory...

that path would change to /admin/

the preceding paths (like www.myshop.com etc.)

are all dynamically created from the other variables.

[jimwh]

Thanks Mark! Sorry for the extreme delay in getting back to my question. There's more reading material here than I thought!!