Hi,
Well, first off I gotta say how overall impressed I am at the level of forum help available. I spent a few hours configuring my store yesterday doing some things I thought would be tricky and playing with layout, but each time I had an issue, I was able to find a thread that gave the solution.
OK so onto my problem. My nice new Zen Cart instance (version 1.39h) was working great yesterday, but today I decided I wanted to move it from where I installed it (in a sub folder "/store") to the root of the site. I did a backup, and followed the thread instructions for moving a site. I started to get 500 Page errors and nothing was working. Just in case I'd caused issues with the permissions, I went and re-checked/re-applied the security settings on the files/folders.
After still getting 500 errors and doing some reading of the threads, I went into IIS Manager (version 6 on a Windows 2003 Server box) and checked the site properties for issues. I noticed that the folder "/store" kept coming up in the 'Inheritance Override' warning dialog when doing a couple of changes (even though the directory had been deleted).
I decided to try a clean install, and created a new MySQL instance and clean store install on one of my websites that currently has no content. The installer ran great, but after installing the store and admin console, failed to display... again showing a 500 Error.
I did three further installs creating new sites in IIS each time; even changing the permissions on every file to 777 and giving all the permissions I could in IIS, but the site STILL gave the 500 error. For good measure, I re-installed my PHP (ver 5) and reset the .ini file (I read this can sometimes cause an issue with some of the parameters).
After almost giving up, I thought I would try moving the original files back to the /store location and as soon as I did that, the site magically started working again!
You can see the instance here:
http://www.575parts.com/store/
sorry it's a bit rough, but you can see it's working. Now look at one of my other instances installed:
http://www.aepaint.com/stig/
...and notice I get nothing. I really would like to move my original instance to the root of the site, in addition to having the ability of installing more instances, but I'm not sure what else I can do.
I tried looking at the log files, but the only ones I could find were the IIS logs, which didn't seem to have any further info on what the root of the errors are.
Can anyone help?
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