Can not install Zen Cart...

[gints]

Have you selected "begin installation" in item 1..?

of course I did...

[DrByte]

1. Delete the entire /shop/ folder from your server.

Then re-install, just like the installation instructions:
2. Re-upload the set of files.
3. Rename both configure.php files and make them writable
4. Point your browser to /shop/zc_install/index.php

[gints]

1. Delete the entire /shop/ folder from your server.

Then re-install, just like the installation instructions:
2. Re-upload the set of files.
3. Rename both configure.php files and make them writable
4. Point your browser to /shop/zc_install/index.php

I did the following steps:
cd /var/www
sudo rm -R shop
sudo mkdir ZenCart
sudo cp -R [source]/* ZenCart
cd ZenCart
sudo mv includes/dist-configure.php includes/configure.php
sudo mv admin/includes/dist-configure.php admin/includes/configure.php
sudo chmod 777 includes/configure.php
sudo chmod 777 admin/includes/configure.php

Then I pointed my browser to 192.168.1.10/ZenCart//zc_install/index.php and result .... the same!

Do you see any errors in my operations?

[DrByte]

According to both of the screenshots you've posted there are two things I note:

1. The exact problem is being told to you in point #3: /includes/configure.php not found. You should not be ignoring that message.

2. zc_install doesn't have any facility within it to call the error screen that's being displayed. Thus it's somehow pulling it from the main folder. I'm guessing that this is a symptom of a server which isn't configured to handle relative paths?

How exactly did you install and configure PHP on this server?
How exactly did you install and configure the webserver engine on this server? And what permissions does it use? What user does it run as?

Have you tried using a traditional webserver build by a hosting company who sets up usable webservers on a daily basis? With respect, one very common problem I see with people starting with ecommerce is that they quickly slap together a server thinking everything should just magically work and then we discover after days of painful diagnosis that the problem is their homegrown server, and nothing at all with Zen Cart or the Zen Cart installation instructions.

[gints]

According to both of the screenshots you've posted there are two things I note:

1. The exact problem is being told to you in point #3: /includes/configure.php not found. You should not be ignoring that message.

2. zc_install doesn't have any facility within it to call the error screen that's being displayed. Thus it's somehow pulling it from the main folder. I'm guessing that this is a symptom of a server which isn't configured to handle relative paths?

How exactly did you install and configure PHP on this server?
How exactly did you install and configure the webserver engine on this server? And what permissions does it use? What user does it run as?

Have you tried using a traditional webserver build by a hosting company who sets up usable webservers on a daily basis? With respect, one very common problem I see with people starting with ecommerce is that they quickly slap together a server thinking everything should just magically work and then we discover after days of painful diagnosis that the problem is their homegrown server, and nothing at all with Zen Cart or the Zen Cart installation instructions.

Finally I found the problem... All times before I used source files downloaded and unziped by my Windows computer. When I tried to unzip zip file by using unzip command in Linux server my installation started right away.
Now I am trying to solve login problem in both admin and customer area. Interesting, that I cannot login from Opera only (security error), but easy can log in from IE8. After some inspection I founded out it is because of different values of variables $_SESSION['securityToken'] and $_POST['securityToken'] . Any ideas?

According to home built server - you are right. I just try to install ZenCart on my home server for learning purposes. I have access to real working ZenCart e-shop admin and just wanted better to play with home server instead of doing something wrong on real server. My home server is Ubuntu 10.04 server edition with LAMP with default settings installed.