Yes I'm a dope but I really need help new install!

[murph]

I have an existing oscommerce site that I love but I bought it ready made. I do know how to use the admin panel etc and am comfortable with all that.

 

Now I have some new domains I want to run oscommerce on. I am trying my first one and having problems. And yes I am a newbie :huh: I used fantastico to do a one click install. Here is the link to what I have now: http://server21.integrityserver.net/~murph6/oscommerce/

Could you experts please look at this and then give me some help??

 

All I have managed to do so far is get a welcome paragraph in. I tried to take out the rest of the default text below but then keep getting parse errors on the page.

 

You can see no background color, text boxes or graphics show up here. Why is that? I have gone into the stylesheet and tried all sorts of things to make a background color etc but this default page setup never changes.

 

When I log in to the oscommerce admin panel (that blue screen) where you would manage the site etc if I click on anything in there - i.e. catalog, localization etc - all I get is an error page that says something like 404 not found and a totally blank screen.

 

Here is the link to my existing oscommerce site: http://www.tackxpress.com

How do I get this new one to look like this one with a logo header across the top and the colors and borders around the left and right column boxes etc.

 

Honestly I have gone totally thru the wiki docs and it's just not helping. The part in there that tells you about backgrounds I actually copied and pasted what it said in there to the stylesheet, the index.php, configure.php or whatever and tried various colors and nothing ever changes. Plus I don't understand the instructions where it says to insert this on EVERY page? How do I do that?

 

All help appreciated! Thanks!

[Chris Dunning]

Something is amiss in your configure.php files. My advice to you is to remove the install you did with Fantastico, download the osCommerce package from this site, upload to your server and use the osCommerce installer.

 

Or if you know what you're doing, edit your configure.php - looks like the images directory at least is not right, possibly more.

[Guest]

Your problem is catalog/includes/configure.php

 

Post catalog/includes/configure.php (without your database info)

 

The_Bear

[Guest]

Also try going to your images directories and gave them a permission of 777.

[murph]

Here is the /includes/configure.php file **note - this is what I can copy when I click on edit file. When I click on SHOW file it is totally blank???

 

Oh and the images directory is already at 777. The images inside the folder are all either 755 or 644, is that correct?

 

<?php

/*

osCommerce, Open Source E-Commerce Solutions

http://www.oscommerce.com

 

Copyright © 2003 osCommerce

 

Released under the GNU General Public License

*/

 

// Define the webserver and path parameters

// * DIR_FS_* = Filesystem directories (local/physical)

// * DIR_WS_* = Webserver directories (virtual/URL)

define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://designerbuys.com'); // eg, http://localhost - should not be empty for productive servers

define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'https://'); // eg, https://localhost - should not be empty for productive servers

define('ENABLE_SSL', false); // secure webserver for checkout procedure?

define('HTTP_COOKIE_DOMAIN', 'designerbuys.com');

define('HTTPS_COOKIE_DOMAIN', '');

define('HTTP_COOKIE_PATH', '/oscommerce/');

define('HTTPS_COOKIE_PATH', '/oscommerce/');

define('DIR_WS_HTTP_CATALOG', '/oscommerce/');

define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG', '/oscommerce/');

define('DIR_WS_IMAGES', 'images/');

define('DIR_WS_ICONS', DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'icons/');

define('DIR_WS_INCLUDES', 'includes/');

define('DIR_WS_BOXES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'boxes/');

define('DIR_WS_FUNCTIONS', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'functions/');

define('DIR_WS_CLASSES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'classes/');

define('DIR_WS_MODULES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'modules/');

define('DIR_WS_LANGUAGES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'languages/');

 

define('DIR_WS_DOWNLOAD_PUBLIC', 'pub/');

define('DIR_FS_CATALOG', '/home/murph6/public_html/oscommerce/');

define('DIR_FS_DOWNLOAD', DIR_FS_CATALOG . 'download/');

define('DIR_FS_DOWNLOAD_PUBLIC', DIR_FS_CATALOG . 'pub/');

 

// define our database connection

define('DB_SERVER', 'localhost'); // eg, localhost - should not be NULL for productive servers

define('DB_SERVER_USERNAME', 'murph6_osc1');

define('DB_SERVER_PASSWORD', 'CFqWVo9KKb0V');

define('DB_DATABASE', 'murph6_osc1');

define('USE_PCONNECT', 'false'); // use persistent connections?

define('STORE_SESSIONS', 'mysql'); // leave empty '' for default handler or set to 'mysql'

?>

[Guest]

one thing when posting configure.php is to never post username, password, database, etc

 

 

by going to the domain listed in the configure.php and going to the oscommerce folder, it isnt found, thus something is wrong in your server configuration of pointing to the domain

 

have your host edit the alias they have in your httpd.conf file

[murph]

Oh geez, where is the edit button so I can take that stuff out??

 

Re the domain, it hasn't propagated yet to the server so I am assuming this is the problem you are mentioning mibble or does this alias thing still have to be done?

[Guest]

the dns has propogated, when you type in the domain it goes to a default page your host has installed, which usually means you dont have them in the proper place. your best bet now is to change the password on the database . ..

[murph]

Mibble - that default page is another issue entirely, it's not my host, those are the people I registered the domain with and I have entered new nameservers there to the actual hosting account I am using but there is some sort of error with that and I am waiting to hear from the registrar on that to get it fixed.

 

I am just trying to work on the site until that gets fixed, so you need to click on the link in my first post to get to the oscommerce page. Any other suggestions? Thanks.