Guest Posted October 23, 2002 Share Posted October 23, 2002 hello all....I am not the best with this so I need some help installing OSCommerce 2.2 on my website. I have all the things I need to run the softeware although the documentation is not all that clear on how to install it. First problem on the download page you have Catalog (568,364 bytes) Administration Tool (297,111 bytes) Documentation (77,625 bytes) Do I need to download all 3 of these files or just one? Or can I download the entire program that I need at Download as one package Windows | Unix Then after downloading the entire package witch I need the UNIX install one. I extract it on my drive and need to uploaded it myself. After Extracting it I get three folders. admin catalog tep-docs What from here.....Obviously I upload them to my website and I will need to chmod some of the files. Can someone give me the breakdown. I used this http://oscdox.com/modules.php?op=modload&n...req=getit&lid=1 but it is still very confusing. Please help got product and no website to sell it on! Is their suppose to be documentation with the download because I am downloding it from here. http://www.oscommerce.com/downloads.php/snapshot I am shoosing the full download with UNIX... I find very very little documentation in it. Please Please HELP! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 24, 2002 Share Posted October 24, 2002 Hi! As far as I can tell, you have uploaded everything correctly. To kick start the installation process I suggest you visit http://www.abitofthings.com/catalog/instal...all/install.php and go from there... It should do everything automatically but I wouldnt know as Im only in the process of uploading files myself :D Hope this helps... Kind Regards Luke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zen7 Posted October 24, 2002 Share Posted October 24, 2002 Well it should do it automatically on win2k like it does on linux but I am getting this error: Notice: Undefined index: HTTP_SESSION_VARS in D:namestyles.comASP_filesosccataloginstallincludesfunctionshtml_output.php on line 15 So there is a problem there obviously. thanks, donovan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 24, 2002 Share Posted October 24, 2002 I got mine working thanks to a member who got me on MSN.....Don;t recall his name but sure I will see him again. Here is the problem......Your download page is good....Although get rid of this Daily CVS Snapshot (10/23/2002) Catalog (568,373 bytes) Administration Tool (297,104 bytes) Documentation (77,624 bytes) and just do the full download.....Then I would recomend to fix the downloaded file because there is so much crap that is not needed. For those of you having problems this is what you need to do. Download the full version that you need. it will be called tep_snapshot-20021022.tar. Then Extract that file on your drive to what ever folder you want. I just extracted it into a folder called tep_snapshot-20021022.tar in my documents. When you go into that folder you will have another file that needs to be extracted and it is 4.3Megs it is called tep_snapshot-20021022. Extract that file to another folder I did mine to a folder called tep_snapshot-20021022. No go into that new folder and you will see 3 folders called: admin catalog tep-docs As far as I know you can delete the tep-docs folder I never needed it and don;t know what the heck it is for. No go into the admin folder and you will see these folders and files. admin (Folder) CVS (Folder) 4 files (LICENSE, STANDARD, INSTALL, and TODO) Highlight and Copy the ADMIN folder and the CVS folder. No go backwards to were you see a the following three folders: admin catalog tep-docs (Unless you deleted this already) Go into the catalog folder and paste the other 2 folders you coppied. If it ask you if you want to write over anything choose yes. After the folders are pasted. Go back to this view. admin catalog tep-docs (Unless you deleted this already What you want to upload and how you upload is up to you (Depending on programs.) But what you need to upload to your website is the catalog folder and everything under neath it. after uploading the files you your website you will need to CHMOD some of the files. Directory Permission Level /catalog/admin/includes chmod 755 (Just the folder) /catalog/includes chmod 755 (Just the folder) /catalog/admin/includes/configure.php chmod 777 (Just the file) /catalog/includes/configure.php chmod 777 (Just the file) /catalog/images chmod 777 (Just the folder) Now to another glitch with the program.....They forgot to make a backups folder. So go to this location /catalog/admin/ and create a folder called backups. So now it looks like this. /catalog/admin/backups/ CHMOD the backups folder to 777. OK now you are almost ready to go the the installer but first you need to go to a control panel or create a mysql database. remember the database name and also add a user to the database with a password. Remember the database name...The user name....and the password. Now you are ready to set up the software. open your favorite browser window and put in this address. http://www.yourserver.com/catalog/install/install.php The www.yourserver.com is the name of your website. The onscreen prompts and areas you have to fill in are very easy to do. just pay attention to what you are doing. Hope this helps and does not confuse anyone. P.S. Why not make the download file exactly like it should be to upload? What is tep-docs folder for? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockinRyan Posted October 30, 2002 Share Posted October 30, 2002 Well it should do it automatically on win2k like it does on linux but I am getting this error:Notice: Undefined index: HTTP_SESSION_VARS in D:namestyles.comASP_filesosccataloginstallincludesfunctionshtml_output.php on line 15 So there is a problem there obviously. thanks, donovan OKAY, since no one has bothered to reply to this issue, which is being faced by many I'm sure, I found a work-around. Edit your php.ini file (or equiv if different under Unix) and replace your existing error_reporting setting with this: error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE It will still show warnings, but the notices (which often cause warnings by trashing header write attempts) will go away. I'd like to know if this is what everyone has done (in one capacity or another) or if these are near-bugs or other misconfiguration?? In any case, that one change (after restarting Apache) made everything work acceptably. Good luck, Ryan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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