Topic: SME 7.0 and OsCommerce

[hinca]

Hi all.

Im trying to install oscommerce on my server but I getting an error about register_globals is off.
Please help me out here. How can I set it to on.
Im a newbie so please write full path to files I have to edit. Or even better a full guide to make it work.

I tryed some of the how to´s for ver. 6.5 but Im not sure they work for ver 7.0

Hinca

[crazybob]

check out http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=33895.0
Bob

[hinca]

It works!!

Thanks a lot

[chaloner]

For osCommerce I use 2 iBays. One for the catalog, and a seperate password protected iBay one for the admin tool. It works fine that way. It requires some configuration of the admin tool iBay phpbasedir as follows;

Assuming the catalog is in an iBay named shop and the admin tool is in an iBay named shopadmin;

/sbin/e-smith/db accounts setprop shopadmin PHPBaseDir /home/e-smith/files/ibays/shopadmin/:/home/e-smith/files/ibays/shop/:/tmp
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event ibay-modify shopadmin
/sbin/e-smith/db accounts setprop shop PHPBaseDir /home/e-smith/files/ibays/shop/:/tmp
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event ibay-modify shop

Getting the configuration.php file settings is a bit tricky...

Chaloner Hale

[wookie]

Woke up this morning and thought, lets help a friend who is starting a business. Now i need a little guidance in the right direction !!

Looked in de forums first to see what kind of shopping 'software' there is/was available and what kind of  experience was around.
Started experimenting with osCommerce. I've read about the 'big security' issue with the admininistrator part, so i decided to install the admin directory int shopadmin.
It went all fine untill.

In the shopadmin tool i received the following:
Catalog
Error: Catalog images directory does not exist: /shop/catalog/images/
Tools
Error: Backup directory does not exist. Please set this in configure.php.
The backup directory exists

Everywhere www:www has rw rights


The shopadmin/admin/includes/configure.php
  define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://<ipaddress>'); // eg, http://localhost - should not be empty for productive servers
  define('HTTP_CATALOG_SERVER', 'http://<ipaddress>');
  define('HTTPS_CATALOG_SERVER', 'https://<ipaddress>');
  define('ENABLE_SSL_CATALOG', 'true'); // secure webserver for catalog module
  define('DIR_FS_DOCUMENT_ROOT', '/shop/catalog/'); // where the pages are located on the server
  define('DIR_WS_ADMIN', '/shopadmin/admin/'); // absolute path required
  define('DIR_FS_ADMIN', '/shopadmin/admin/'); // absolute pate required
  define('DIR_WS_CATALOG', '/shop/catalog/'); // absolute path required
  define('DIR_FS_CATALOG', '/shop/catalog/'); // absolute path required
  define('DIR_WS_IMAGES', 'images/');
  define('DIR_WS_ICONS', DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'icons/');
  define('DIR_WS_CATALOG_IMAGES', DIR_WS_CATALOG . 'images/');
  define('DIR_WS_INCLUDES', 'includes/');
  define('DIR_WS_BOXES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'boxes/');
  define('DIR_WS_FUNCTIONS', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'functions/');
  define('DIR_WS_CLASSES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'classes/');
  define('DIR_WS_MODULES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'modules/');
  define('DIR_WS_LANGUAGES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'languages/');
  define('DIR_WS_CATALOG_LANGUAGES', DIR_WS_CATALOG . 'includes/languages/');
  define('DIR_FS_CATALOG_LANGUAGES', DIR_FS_CATALOG . 'includes/languages/');
  define('DIR_FS_CATALOG_IMAGES', DIR_FS_CATALOG . 'images/');
  define('DIR_FS_CATALOG_MODULES', DIR_FS_CATALOG . 'includes/modules/');
  define('DIR_FS_BACKUP', DIR_FS_ADMIN . 'backups/');

[cjensen]

Create the images dir, create the backup dir.  Then pay attention to security in part by following instruction here.

chaloner's setup makes sense in helping secure Administration.  Read more about the setup and search oscommerce forum.  If you are going to offer a live storefront to the world this is well worth it. Think security, I know from experience

Craig