PHP 5.4.36 Fresh install 1.54 FTP

I have spent the last 4 hours uploading, checking, rechecking, deleting, downloading 3 different ckeditors shutting down and restarting the computer - you get the drift and I cannot get the ckeditor to show up. I set in in admin/configures but when I go to tools/define page editor and choose ckeditor it pops back to plain text. It does this on every page I try to edit.

I have no error logs. I did get the following messages in orange while installing the zencart.

PHP open_basedir restrictions = /home:/home2:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/usr/local/bin:/tmp - I have no idea what to do about this. From what I have read it won't make any difference. So I have done nothing.

PHP Output Buffering (gzip) = OFF This I changed to on

I don't know if these would have anything to do with the ckeditor not working.

Any suggestions. Everything I could find about ckeditor was about videos and I do not have any videos.