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Basic Setup Problems for me too...yes I've read everything I can find, running PHP 5, permissions all 777


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(Oops, I might be standing in the wrong line, I'm trying to install the version released mid-June.)

I've gotten the installer to verify my Database connection
i successfully sent myself an eMail.

However, when I then hit 'Next', the button blinks, the page redraws.

unfortunately, it is the same page.

I've got Full mode selected. And the box in from of 'Configure SMTP...' is unchecked.

This is the very first time I've tried to install any of your products, so it's not an update.

I assume I have some faulty permissions/Virtual pages set, but for the life of me, without
going into the code, I have no idea how to proceed.

Mitch

PS: My service provider is IX. https://manage.ixwebhosting.com/

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well, that's because we're both goobers. I'm working on writing a response to us.

if you've done it before, you have to go into web settings and make virtual directories and then turn on PHP on in there too.

ix's control panel came directly from the 90's and it hasn't looked back since.

I'll post up here when I get it written down.

Something a little more useful than, Take this stone knife and this bearskin...

Mitch

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Copy Prestashop to your Web Host. I suggest putting it into either a subdirectory or a subdomain.
It took me a while to figure it out too:

Subdireectory: www.webdomainname.com/ShopName

Subdomain: ShopName.webdomainname.com

(the subdomain gives you a complete 'default to your webhoster' layout. That is,
If you looked at all the folders/files in your domain, you'd see the same layout in the subdomain.
The subdomain can also have its own eMail system: ala [email protected])

A subdirectory is just an empty folder beneath the domain name.)

Anyway, after you copy Prestashop, From the main control panel:

Click 'Domains'. A list of your domain(s) shows up.

Click the appropriate name. An 'Edit Domain' shows up.
(If you have any subdomains for the domain you've chosen, that list will show up here too.
If you have used a subdomain, you need to click on it because you need to 'edit' the domain
Onto which you've copied PrestaShop.)

On the 'Edit Domain' page, Find 'Web Service' (about 2/3s of the way down the page.and click on the 'Edit' icon.
If you click the On button by mistake, you'll be asked if you really want to turn off the web server.
NO you don't want to turn off the web server. Don't let the page you get taken to scare you.
Read it carefully and make the correct choice. I'm pretty sure it's NO, but read carefully.

You get taken to the 'Web Service' page. (When you get to each page, make sure that the Domain Name
Is the correct one. If it got changed you'll have to backtrack. I don't know how it could have gotten
Changed, but better safe than sorry. Measure twice, cut once.

Find 'Web Directories Settings' a few rows down.
Click on the 'Edit' button.

You go to 'Web Directories Settings' page.
There are two columns, 'Web Directory' and 'Web Application'.
There is also a row at the very bottom which has one column and the icon says 'Add'.
Click Add.

You go to the 'New Web Directory' page.
Web directory name text box: Give the web directory a name. It can be the same name as the directory to which you are going to point this name at.

(Here is where I found something cool and extended my knowledge a little bit:
This name can be anything you want. It does not have to relate to anything at all. But of course, you'd like to name it something useful. IMPORTANT THING: you can have MORE THAN ONE Web Directory Name pointing to the same place on your domain.

Why Mitch? Why would I want to do that?
Because you can give different permissions to the Web Directory Names.
For example, if you're running an install program, you'll need pretty much all the permission you can get. But you don't want your users to have the same permissions. You give the user a name that you want them to go to, but name your permissioned directory something else (ForSaleMine, ForSaleSomethingYouCanRememberANDHardForAUserToFigureOut.) And of course, the user path should have restricted access.

SO, give the web directory a name:

ForSaleMine, Path relative to the user home page, give the path starting with the domain name and ending with the folder into which you copied Presta.

Authentication level: the text box selector contains a 'Protected' entry. Select that one for your 'Special Persmissions' Web Directory'.

Select the other three boxes (write access. Source access, directory browsing) and Submit.
You go to a page that hopefully in Red at the top says, Web Directory has been created successfully. If it doesn't, you're on your own…:-))

Hit the Back Button:

Do the same thing with your 'User directory name'. You don't have to change any of the selections.
Jus t enter the name and the path. And Submit again.

…successfully…

Each Web Directory shows up in the leftmost column (along with Document Root, you don't want to know. Stay focused.)

The Web Application column has 'Status' with two 'Off' buttons Click them to turn them on.

The 'off' turns to 'on' and you also get a new 'Edit' box. You can click that one if you want, it'll take you to a page that I don't understand because the one selection it allows you to make is already selected and there are no other options to choose from anyway.

Under the Web Directory column you now have 'Edit' icons next to the Web Names you created.

Click one. (You can also click the Document Root edit box, but stay focused, if something happens over there, I can't help you. Now. You really have to go look don't you…:-)) It'll just take you back to the Edit Web Directory page. Best not to change anything though.

So, click on Edit. What happens? You go back to the 'Edit Web Directory' page. Ie The one you just came from. You don't need to change anything here (unless you made a mistake.

And this is where the wheels come off for this system.
Right now, you can view the web pages, but if they have ASP or PHP on them, they don't do anything.

The only way I have found is to click on 'Home' up in the upper left and go to the Home page.
Click Domains again and you get a page with your domains/subdomains on it.

Click the edit button on the correct domain (Don't hit the garbage can.)

You go to the 'Edit Domain' page. (Check the Domain name to be sure.)
There is all manner of shiny things in here, but you're interested in the 'Web Service' row.
It should be 'On'. There is an Edit button there. Click it.

You go to the Web Service page. Check valid Domain name.

...continued next post, i guess i rambled on some...

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...continuing on from previous post (first line re-copied on purpose)

You go to the Web Service page. Check valid Domain name.

You’d figure the correct thing to do would be to click the Edit button by 'Web Directories Settings'.
But, since we're in the '90s, it's not. That Edit button takes you back to the Web Directories Settings' page where we named the Web Directory and gave it permissions. You might as well go ahead and do it, I wander around several times before I remember:

The row below the obvious row says: 'Web Directories and Web Applications'.

It's got a text box selector which says 'Document Root'.
Expand the text box with the down arrow: Hey there's your stuff!!!
But there are two entries for every one you put in. one has the prefix:
'Web Directory' the other is 'Web Application'.

Select one (start with the Web Directory). And hit 'Go'.
Before you received this document "Go? Go? I don't want to go anywhere. I want to edit something that will make my web site work. I'm about this close to looking for another web service provider…Fine Go."

Which takes you to the 'Web Service' page.

Don't try and figure out why you're back here. But there is the text box again in the row below the one you'd think was the obvious one. This time select: The 'Web Application' entry and 'Go'.

This takes you to the 'Web Service' page AGAIN. But before you start pulling out your hair, you notice that there are three 'off' buttons on three rows you've not seen before.
ASPNET
PHP
SSI

Click the 'Off' it comes 'On' and takes you to a new page:
From ASPNET, you go to 'ASPNET versions', select which version you want from the text box and Submit
It takes you back to the Web Service Page.
PHP Off to On takes you to the PHP versions page, select and Submit
Takes you back to the Web Service page,
SSI (Server Side Includes) from Off to On, just turns the feature on gives you an edit box and the opportunity to enable 'SSI Exec' . That sounded scary to me, so I left it off.

Please feel free to add/correct me. I tried to be careful (I actually had to do it for my Presta site just now, so it worked for me. Well, I haven't tried to install it yet. But, "It compiled. It should run."

Mitch

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caveat, don't outsmart yourself, i tried to make a directory 'Install' and gave it a path to and including 'install' and got back a "Javascript must be enabled...' message

mitch

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well, dad blast it, that doesn't work either.

the db connects, the test mail is sent, 'next' will pop the 'barber pole' at the top for a few seconds, then the page blinks and stares back at me.

I've installed other things after doing the permission thing above, so now I no longer know what else to do.

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