Admin login not working.

[swatoffroad]

during install, the only error I get is that I have to run PHP as a CGI script.

I'll leave it where it is till I get a response of what I should do before continuing installation.

[Merlinpa1969]

php as cgi is not an error,
most of our servers run that way

just make sure that you DONT set the file permessions to 777 as this causes errors

[swatoffroad]

aren't they 744 until you complete installation pretty much?

[kobra]

aren't they 744 until you complete installation pretty much?

The install looks for them to be writeable so what ever allows the check & re-check to see them as writeable is what you need during the install

[swatoffroad]

Should I enable SSL for one, both, or neither the customer and admin areas?
I do have SSL up and working, my https server works, I do know that.

[kobra]

if the same link then you have started over... start with no ssl and get the cart & admin functioning you can later set this for SSL

[swatoffroad]

Should I use a table prefix?

last time I didn't...

[swatoffroad]

Also, store database sessions? Yes or no?
And the cache method. What do I do there?

[Merlinpa1969]

prefix is up to you,
this is there on the chance that you may want to use the same DB for more than one program

as for sessions,

what we do is

1 create a folder above the root called cache
2 set permissions on it to 755
3 modify the path in the installation ( example for c-panel server would be /home/username/cache the public_html was removed )

[swatoffroad]

So this

/home/jbecher/swatoffroad.com/cart/cache

would become this?

/home/jbecher/swatoffroad.com/cache

or this?

/home/jbecher/cache