website doesn't work (500 internal server error) but admin panel works fine?(GoDaddy)

[Kim]

You are on a GoDaddy Windows server?

[kuroi]

Ah yes, I misread the direction of your transfer. As your problem is on your remote web server, I'd look first at the file permissions with which your uploaded files landed.

[idc1]

You are on a GoDaddy Windows server?

Yes I'm on a GoDaddy Windows server

Ah yes, I misread the direction of your transfer. As your problem is on your remote web server, I'd look first at the file permissions with which your uploaded files landed.

I will try to find and check which files may have issues with their permissions.

[Kim]

Yes I'm on a GoDaddy Windows server

Stop wasting time trying to get that to work - move to a Linux server at the very least and a different host would be even better.

[idc1]

So here are the steps I took and what I have found out so far:

1) Copied my local test site to GoDaddy (named: Zenoriginal)

2) Things did not work so I also did the GoDaddy install which led to me having a 2nd ZenCart under my domain (named: GoDaddyZen)

3) I replicated the GoDaddyZen configure.php files with appropriate changes in my Zenoriginal folder.

4) Admin panel worked, but not the website.

5) Through trial and error, i found that Zenoriginal/includes/configure.php lines of code point to where I think they logically should with the exception of 1 line. For example:
Most point to something along the lines of
define('DIR_WS_CATALOG', '/Zenoriginal/');
define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG', '/Zenoriginal/');

However I have to point this line to the folder created by GoDaddy.

define('DIR_FS_CATALOG', 'D:\Hosting\8258716\html\GoDaddyZen/');

All the add-ons & mods in my Zenoriginal appear to work fine but I feel as though it should not be pointed to GoDaddyZen. Rather it should point to Zenoriginal. Any ideas as to why this is?

[DrByte]

It needs to point to where your files are actually located.

You would be better off following the tutorial which explains how to move from one server to another, instead of blindly messing with configure.php entries. See https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/i...hp?article=100

[idc1]

It needs to point to where your files are actually located.

You would be better off following the tutorial which explains how to move from one server to another, instead of blindly messing with configure.php entries. See https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/i...hp?article=100

Tried this but I can't get past the "hello. thank you for loading zen cart" please click here to begin installation. click here leads to an internal server error.

So here are the steps I took and what I have found out so far:

1) Copied my local test site to GoDaddy (named: Zenoriginal)

2) Things did not work so I also did the GoDaddy install which led to me having a 2nd ZenCart under my domain (named: GoDaddyZen)

3) I replicated the GoDaddyZen configure.php files with appropriate changes in my Zenoriginal folder.

4) Admin panel worked, but not the website.

5) Through trial and error, i found that Zenoriginal/includes/configure.php lines of code point to where I think they logically should with the exception of 1 line. For example:
Most point to something along the lines of
define('DIR_WS_CATALOG', '/Zenoriginal/');
define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG', '/Zenoriginal/');

However I have to point this line to the folder created by GoDaddy.

define('DIR_FS_CATALOG', 'D:\Hosting\8258716\html\GoDaddyZen/');

All the add-ons & mods in my Zenoriginal appear to work fine but I feel as though it should not be pointed to GoDaddyZen. Rather it should point to Zenoriginal. Any ideas as to why this is?

Also as part of my education process, I would like to know what is wrong with the file system directory so that it won't function with my uploaded files, but it will with the GoDaddy ZenCart addon.

I also tried to point the GoDaddy installation includes/configure.php to my files but it seems GoDaddy does something so that I can't change the file permissions and in turn change the define('Dir_fs_catalog......) statement.