Coming Soon!

[Andrew]

osCommerce and PowWeb!

We are in the process of incorporating the install process of osCommerce (http://www.oscommerce.com) to our hosting package via OPS. We are still working out the details and it should be ready to go in couple of days. :)

[NMS]

:D ... Excellent improvement

I also wanted to be the second person posting in this thread. Sorry I just could not resist it :)

[dawg868]

OScommerce works with MySQL and I do not have that and I can't spend $10 on it. Can I download my own MySQL and host it in Powweb server or do I have to host it in my own server? I have needs this oscommerce program forever. It was perfect till I read the requirments!:)

[Atomic-Design]

Originally posted by dawg868
OScommerce works with MySQL and I do not have that and I can't spend $10 on it. Can I download my own MySQL and host it in Powweb server or do I have to host it in my own server? I have needs this oscommerce program forever. It was perfect till I read the requirments!:)

I would just mow a lawn, or go without a bag of chips for lunch for a week or two.

[Jade Dragon]

YEAH!

=)
Jade

[tresrhnter]

I just downloaded oscommerce last night. should I hold off on setting it up and just wait for this to implement?

Another related question: I wanted to be working on the oscommerce setup while waiting for my domain to be registered, right now am still using the temporary url. I've been trying to do some of the setups per instructions here on the forum for oscommerce and most don't work for me, is it because of the temporary url? Thank you in advance for your time,

Melinda

[mjp]

The osCommerce setup should be available for everyone now in OPS on the "Packages" tab, under "HTTP (WebSite)."

As for the temporary url question, we only tested the install on active accounts - but part of the install does grab your domain name to point you to the osCommerce portion of the setup, so I guess that would fail. But you could adjust that link to use your temp url and it should work. I'll set up a test account and give it a try.

mjp

[mjp]

Originally posted by dawg868
Can I download my own MySQL and host it in Powweb server or do I have to host it in my own server? You cannot install a MySQL server in your account...but if you can run a MySQL server somewhere else and connect to it via hostname or IP, you can certainly use it for the osCommerce setup on the server here. It may run a little slower than a local MySQL server on our network, but it will work.

mjp

[mjp]

As for the temp url issue, at this moment the installation will not work for a new account with a temp url. Admins are going to make a few adjustments so the installation will work on new accounts using temp url's. I'd say give them 24 - 48 hours to get those changes made.

mjp

[stevel]

Is there documentation online I can look at without downloading the package? Like a lot of open-source projects, the oscommerce web site is rather sparse on details.

[mjp]

I don't know of any documentation that the osCommerce developers supply...there may be something out there maintained by a third party, but as you said, most open source stuff is not known for its great documentation.

mjp

As it turns out someone is working on osCommerce documentation, though their site seems to be dead at the moment: http://oscdox.com/

[evert]

Installed! :)

Not that I have anything to sell currently, but I figure that 'playing' around with a WebShop is good practice.

And thanks to the posting(s) of beautiful Jade, I'm having no problems at all so far! ;)


Greetz,
Evert

[SpoonFed]

Originally posted by mjp
I don't know of any documentation that the osCommerce developers supply...there may be something out there maintained by a third party, but as you said, most open source stuff is not known for its great documentation.

mjp

As it turns out someone is working on osCommerce documentation, though their site seems to be dead at the moment: http://oscdox.com/

Actually there is a new effort underway that shows great promise

http://wiki.oscommerce.com

[(jj)]

Originally posted by dawg868
OScommerce works with MySQL and I do not have that and I can't spend $10 on it. Can I download my own MySQL and host it in Powweb server or do I have to host it in my own server? I have needs this oscommerce program forever. It was perfect till I read the requirments!:)

Well, now you don't have to worry.. you can have 1 MySQL database for free

http://forum.powweb.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=21808

[Alleira]

I have a series of dumb questions to ask.

1. What is MySQL?
2. Why is this important to me?
3. How does it work in relation to getting online stores started?
4. Given that I understand replies to questions 1-3... will the 1 unit of MySQL database be enough for working a business off of?

I'm in the process of trying to come up with something 'business wise' and I'm trying to get some sort of research done. I haven't the slightest clue what I'm doing. I only wish I was a comp geek.

Alleira

[evert]

First of all: There is no such thing as a dumb question, there are only dumb answers... ;)

Q1. What is MySQL?
A1: http://www.mysql.com/documentation/mysql/bychapter/manual_Introduction.html#What-is

Q2: Why is this important to me?
A2: osCommerce doesn't work without it

Q3: How does it work in relation to getting online stores started?
A3: eehh, I'm not 100% sure what you mean with this question, so here is a good example of a dumb answer: eeehhh... ;)

Q4: Given that I understand replies to questions 1-3... will the 1 unit of MySQL database be enough for working a business off of?
A4: Yes. osCommerce requires only 1 MySQL database (and can even share one with other applications, if needed)

[codewarrior]

If the POWWEB oSCommerce installer could add the line:

define('WARN_CONFIG_WRITEABLE', 'false');

to the version of configure.php that gets installed with the package, it would get rid of the whole issue of not being able to CHMOD the configure.php file.

[mjp]

We'll try altering that configure.php file...if we test it and it works, we'll commit it to the public archive and that should be the end of that problem.

mjp