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I'm importing products into OSC with SP. Everything is basically working okay, with one exception: the existing category and manufacturer images are being blanked out during the import.
For example, I've already set up the category "CatA" and the manufacturer "MfgA" in OSC, both with images. I then import a few products, one of which is in category CatA and from manufacturer MfgA. Once the import is finished, I look at the details for CatA and MfgA and neither has an image associated with it.
I tried removing all the related image fields from the import but that made no difference. I understand from the documentation that if a manufacturer or a category processed during import is already in the OSC database, the image will be updated. But that only makes sense if I want to update the image. What if I'm importing new products with existing categories and manufacturers and I have no interest in changing their images?
Weird.
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Basically if all features of osCommerce work, then you're ok because it uses a lot of the osc engine. The oldest it was tested on is Apache 1.3.37 and it worked fine. Smoothe Populate was built under 2.2.9.
Well, that sounds encouraging. OSC does seem to work fine on our server. The OSC documentation states that "osCommerce runs on all PHP enabled web servers" and it doesn't specify any particular version for Apache. Are you saying that OSC was tested under 1.3.37 and it worked fine, or were you referring to SP? I'm assuming the former (OSC). In that case, the "requirement" for Apache 2.2.9 listed for OSC is presumably based only on the fact that it hasn't been officially tested on Apache 1.x. In which case I think I'll be okay.
Thanks for the info!
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That section about the temp directory in configdef.php was a left over from the older package and will be revised in future update.
Okay, thanks for clearing that up.
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Hi,
Please download this Smoothe Populate 1.1 osC-3.0-alpha-5 contrib.
It's will run under OSC V3 Alpha 5. ;)
That's the version I'm using. Still, I downloaded SP again - from the link you posted - and looked at configdef.php. As expected, it's exactly the same as the file I'm using, and it also refers to admin/includes/configure.php.
So, thanks for trying to help, but the issue remains.
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I'm looking at the configdef.php and configvar.php files, as requested by the SP installation documentation. I immediately ran into this:
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THE DIR_FS_DOCUMENT_ROOT SETTING
DIR_FS_DOCUMENT_ROOT is set in your /catalog/admin/includes/configure.php
You should look at the setting DIR_FS_DOCUMENT_ROOT setting.
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Here's the problem: there's no such file in my OSC 3.0 alpha 5 installation. I don't think that file exists any more in OSC 3.
Since SP was designed to work with OSC 3 I'm having trouble understanding what I should do about this.
Any suggestions?
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A question about the requirements for Smoothe Populate:
Is Apache 2.2.9 actually required for SP to operate properly?
My ISP unfortunately is still back on Apache 1.3.41, which is still being maintained and supported and is secure, but is getting a bit old. The last update was in January 2008 and fixed a few security issues.
I'm about to start testing SP and just wanted to know what kinds of problems I'm likely to encounter given the old Apache version I'm stuck with. Am I going to be able to work around the problems or are they huge, deal-breakers?
Thanks in advance for any info.
Smoothe Populate
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Posted · Edited by jrivett
FYI this is definitely fixed in SP 1.2. Yay!