Quote Originally Posted by docsnotary
What I did is to go back to the "System Setup" page in the installation and changed the referenced "Physical Path" to "/var/www/html/ZenCart", where I also had a full copy of ZenCart. Previously I had referenced a copy of ZenCart in a user directory under /home , since I had wanted that particular user to administer the ZenCart. Apparently putting ZenCart in a user's home directory is a no-no. It seems as if it can only function if it is under /var/www/html/ .
It can function just fine in a user's home directory.

However, you were not running the files FROM that home directory.

If you want to install Zen Cart to run from a certain place, you need to upload the files TO that place and run it from there.

The "zc_install" program doesn't actually install FILES... you have to upload via FTP manually. The zc_install process "configures" files and installs database-content.