[Solved] Installation problem

[Jim]

???

 

I am running Apache 2.2. I have downloaded the package of prestashop. When I type http://localhost/prestashop/index.php and try to install it, but I am asked to download. No installation. Could you tell me why?

 

Jim

[Matthieu Biart]

Hi Jim

 

Do you have any prestashop web page when you go to http://localhost/prestashop/index.php or directly a download suggestion by your browser ?

If you haven't any webpage, it is because your Apache have no idea of what is a php page.

So two causes could be the origin of that :

- your apache haven't php installed yet. Thus just download & install it.

- your apache have php but doesn't know that ".php" files are php's files. To fix it you need to add the following line into your apache conf file generaly named "httpd.conf".

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .phtml

See this official page for more details

[Jim]

Thanks!!!

 

After rebooting my computer, I now can run the installation of PrestaShop. But now I have another problem, the program tells me that Graphic library is not installed. Could you tell me how to install it????

 

Many thanks,

Jim

[Jim]

I 've solved the problem and get into the 3rd stage. But it keeps saying 'cannot connect to the database server'.

 

Could you tell me why?

 

Many thanks,

Jim

[Bruno Leveque]

Hi Jim,

 

I presume your database access code are not ok, which is your database server ?

 

Thanks, Bruno

[Jim]

Hi. It's Mysql. Have I had to reset the the password of the root?

 

 

Many thanks,

Jim

[Matthieu Biart]

No way

You've told us that your server is your computer (and the localhost path confirms it) so I presume that your login is "root" and your password just... nothing at all or something like "password" lol

Check your software (which should be eaysphp, wamp or something like that) documentation for better knowledge.

[Jim]

Thanks! Now I had the following error messages.

 

Impossible to change engine to MyISAM.

 

I searched Mysql about it. I have the following.

 

MyISAM is the default storage engine. It is based on the older ISAM code but has many useful extensions. (Note that MySQL 5.0 does not support ISAM.)

 

I am using Mysql 5.0 AB. Will this package going to work with this version?

 

Many thanks,

Jim

[andrew]

I also have this problem....

 

Graphic library is not installed

 

How did you fix it Jim / anyone?

 

I have (quickly) read the documentation on PHP and it says the latest versions include it already.

[Matthieu Biart]

Hi andrew

 

If you're sure you've it on your "package". It just need to be loaded from your php.ini file.

A google search will give you the answer to "where should I modify this file".

[Peter Wilson]

Or you could read about how to activate the GD Library in the recently updated section, "Install PrestaShop", in the PrestaShop Document Wiki. 

[andrew]

Thanks for the answers.

 

Now I feel a bit stupid - :-[ when I installed PHP 1st time I just clicked Next, Next etc and didn't select GD2.

 

Once I had selected it I didn't have to edit the .ini file though 0 these lines were added automatically at the end.

 

[php_GD2]

extension=php_gd2.dll

 

Thanks for the help.

 

- Andrew