Need Help Going Live

[vivaraquel]

I have set up ZC on my pc using XAMPP as a server. I have it going perfect and all 133 products are in it. It's taken me a week and I am very proud of my work, specially since I haven't had the major hassles a lot of you seem to have had.

But as they say, if it seems to good to be true, it probably is. I have spent the best part of today trying to upload it to my web hosting server. I have a domain address. I have a db. I have tried the way the tutorial says to do it in the I WANT TO MOVE MY ZEN CART INSTALLATION TO ANOTHER HOST OR A DIFFERENT SERVER. I have also tried doing it by importig it from MySQL admin via my web server. And also exporting it from XAMPP.

It's not working. Something to do with the configure.php I have allowed writting on it etc ... absolutely everything I have read in any applicable post available. I don't know what else to try so I thought I'd ask.

Any help will be appreciated immensely.

[kuroi]

Could you start by confirming that you have
1. installed Zen Cart on your remote server
2. copied your template files over the top of the Zen cart installation
3. exported your XAMPP database
4. imported your database to one created on your remote server

[vivaraquel]

I haven't got passed the 1st step of installing ZC in my remote server because i get these messages:
# The Session/SQL Cache Directory entry does not exist
# The Session/SQL Cache Directory entry is not writeable

I have no idea what that means.

BTW, mySQL client version is 4.0.24 Dunno if that is of any use.
Thank you again for any info.

[vivaraquel]

I have actually uploaded ZC to my remote server. However, when running the installation, I get the error messages mentioned before.

Hope that helps.

[kuroi]

When during the running of the installation do these messages occur?

More specifically, the first screen is the welcome screen, the second is the license screen, the third is the system inspection screen. Do the error messages occur before during or after the system inspection screen? And is there anything in red on the system inspections screen, and if so, what?

[vivaraquel]

the errors happen after I enter my db details and I click on the save ... button on the bottom of the window. It opens up again on the same window with a big red stop sign at the top and the 2 error messages in red beside that sign.

Thank you for replying.