Help on pre-installation!

[Willinok]

In Zen Cart's install FAQ, the following text appears after the step where you FTP the Zen Cart directory structure to your web server, but BEFORE you run the install:

Creating the configure.php files

Two files need to be created on the server. These are the configure.php files that identify the settings of your particular server and the location of the files that you just loaded. After they have been created, you will then need to change the permissions on these files.

On the server locate the file: /catalog/includes/dist-configure.php
Rename this file to configure.php and change the permissions to 777 (read-write-execute for all)

Next, on the server locate the file: /catalog/admin/includes/dist-configure.php
Rename this file to configure.php and change the permissions to 777 (read-write-execute for all)

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First question: Am I supposed to manually CREATE these files after FTP'ing ZenCart to the server, or do these files already exist somewhere on the web server and I simply need to FIND them?

Second question: I cannot find any /catalog directories anywhere on my web server. Now what? Do I have to create those? If so, where?

Thanks for any help,
William

[samad64]

those files already exists

/catalog/ refers to where your zencart files are. if you plan to access your files using mydomain.com , then you put them into public_html or htdocs (depending on the server). if its mydomain.com/shop, it would be /shop/ instead of /catalog/