Installing OSCommerce

[LEVS Viking]

Ok, this is a completely newbie question, but which type of download should I do? My home PC is Windows, but the server is Linux...

Am I supposed to download it directly to the server and then work on it there?

AACK! Is there a VERY basic tutorial on how to do this?

(thanks for your help)

[stevel]

The server isn't Linux - it's FreeBSD...

The way I did it was as follows:

Download the osCommerce distribution to my PC. Unzip it into my local site directory, the one I use for "publishing". At this point, decide what you want the folder structure to be. The default is that the "store" lives in a catalog subfolder and the admin is under that. I chose to put the store at the main level of my site and to rename the admin to something else. Make those changes locally.

Next, "put" all the files to the server using your normal publishing tool (I use Dreamweaver MX).

In a web browser, open the "install" folder (wherever it happened to end up) on your site and follow the prompts. After it is complete, download the two configure.php files so you have local copies.

Now the real fun begins...

[LEVS Viking]

Ok, now I see what you meant when you said "now the real fun begins..."


Where do I find out what the following answers should be?

Database Server:
Username:
Password:
Database Name:
Persistent Connections:
Session Storage: Files Database

If this involves a MySQL database, I haven't created one yet (and don't know how to do that, either...)

I'm sorry I'm such a newbie...

Karen

[stevel]

In Member Operations, Billing, is a link to add a MySQL database. You pick the database name, username and password - keep in mind that the first two have to be unique on the server. It will tell you the server name.

Set Persistent connections to false, session storage to 'mysql'.

[marsz]

hi!! I'm new too. I'm trying to set up my OS datafeed. I'm having problems with the page: what do I put for:
Database Server? mysql04.powweb.com?
I can't seem to figure out where I can find my IP address or hostname:(

[Dabrowski]

I've never set pu OSCommerce. Is database server and hostname different things?

I assumed they were kind of interchangeable, as far as a database goes. In any case, your database info is in OPs after you set up the MySQL, under that tab.

[stevel]

The database server and host are different for all but some who established a database more than about a year and a half ago. You must first create the database through the MySQL link in the Billing tab.

You don't have an IP address to use here. osCommerce wants to know your database server host (mysql04.powweb.com, for example) and then your HTTP info (your own domain). It doesn't need to know which web server you are on.