Installing a new site

[sfatula]

I know this has changed at times in the past, and, I've been away from Zen Cart for many years now. Back to it. The doc says to rename dist-configure.php to configure.php, in store and admin. Fine, I do this. I run the installer, and, it says system setup is required.

In the past, I thought that Zen itself sets up the configure.php file. Not renaming dist-configure does not change anything. So, I presume the doc is correct. However, the PDF install doc for 1.5.5a never says to EDIT those files and put in valid data. Is this the way it works now, I must edit them both and set up database, paths, domain, etc.?

So, in that manual, does section 5.1 (New Installations) #2 (configure.php files) simply omit the fact that the files must not just be renamed, but, edited for content?

I really thought the zen installer created the files and asked you for the settings.

[DrByte]

1. You rename the files and set permissions on them so that Zen Cart can put the correct contents into them.
2. You run zc_install and answer the questions in the brief interview it gives you (basically, to do the "system setup")
3. Done

[sfatula]

That's what I thought, but, not what I see. There are no logged errors by apache. I go to the install page via http://www.somedomain.com/zc_install, and, it merely gives the You are seeing this page for one or more reasons page.

Near as I can tell, it's looking for zc_install/includes/configure.php, which does not exist since the doc does not say to rename that one. I see a dist-configure.php there....

[sfatula]

I am suspecting the install is not working with mod_fcgid so well with the relative paths.

[frank18]

That's what I thought, but, not what I see. There are no logged errors by apache. I go to the install page via http://www.somedomain.com/zc_install, and, it merely gives the You are seeing this page for one or more reasons page.

Near as I can tell, it's looking for zc_install/includes/configure.php, which does not exist since the doc does not say to rename that one. I see a dist-configure.php there....

You don't need to do anything within the zc_install folder, nothing at all.

You do need to rename the 2 dist-configure.php files to configure.php and make them both writable. Prior to doing all of this, make sure you created a blank database on your server and have the credentials written down as you will need them when running the installer. A few more folders have to be made writable as well (see docs).

In the install package you find a docs folder, open that folder and you will find a file called 1.readme_installation.html - read through that file step by step. Don't skim over that file but read it thoroughly.

I found that the latest installer (ZC 1.5.5a) is the simplest installer since I got involved in ZC. When you run yoursite.com/zc_install it shows you what you reported in your post above (System Setup required etc.....). On that screen you find something like "Install Now" (forgot the exact wording) - click that link and the installer starts.

[sfatula]

I agree you do not normally need to do anything with the zc_install folder. Read my follow up post though, I am using php via mod_fcgid, i.e., cgi, which changes things regarding paths. There is a doc for this, but it also does not work:

https://www.zen-cart.com/content.php...unix-webserver

I have exactly followed the doc. It does not work as a cgi install of php. Nor does the recommendations of the linked to page above.

[frank18]

I agree you do not normally need to do anything with the zc_install folder. Read my follow up post though, I am using php via mod_fcgid, i.e., cgi, which changes things regarding paths. There is a doc for this, but it also does not work:

https://www.zen-cart.com/content.php...unix-webserver

I have exactly followed the doc. It does not work as a cgi install of php. Nor does the recommendations of the linked to page above.

Thanks Steve.

I did 3 fresh installs (for clients) this week, all on Linux servers similar to above, all went without a single glitch.

What exactly is your server environment?

[sfatula]

To prove this theory, I created a small php program (omitting the start tag here):

if (file_exists('includes/configure.php')) {
include('includes/configure.php');
echo HTTP_SERVER . "\n";
}
require('include/configure.php');
echo HTTP_SERVER . " but file not found!\n";

This runs and echos HTTP_SERVER just fine when test.php is in the root apache directory for the site. It fails if the program is moved to zc_install directory. It fails because:

require(): Failed opening required 'include/configure.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in /home/psd/public_html/zc_install/test.php on line 6

I might experiment with the include path just for the install. Been running ZEN under cgi just fine.

[sfatula]

Server is Centos 7.2, standard Centos packages, so, httpd 2.4.6, mod_fcgid to run php (not mod_php), php 5.4.16, mariadb 5.5.47, not sure what else you would want. I suspect it may be possible to patch the install, if I get past it, Zen should run just fine. Always has before. Ideally, a better relative path would be used.

[DrByte]

To prove this theory, I created a small php program (omitting the start tag here):

if (file_exists('includes/configure.php')) {
include('includes/configure.php');
echo HTTP_SERVER . "\n";
}
require('include/configure.php');
echo HTTP_SERVER . " but file not found!\n";

This runs and echos HTTP_SERVER just fine when test.php is in the root apache directory for the site. It fails if the program is moved to zc_install directory. It fails because:

require(): Failed opening required 'include/configure.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in /home/psd/public_html/zc_install/test.php on line 6

I might experiment with the include path just for the install. Been running ZEN under cgi just fine.

There are two bugs with what you've posted here:
a) you used "includes/configure.php" and then "include/configure.php". Both should be "includes/". So your test is wrong.
b) You put your test inside zc_install, which does NOT have an "includes/configure.php" in it. The zc_install code specifically looks at the directory above it to find "includes/configure.php". It never looks for zc_install/includes/configure.php


It's been years since I bothered with Centos let alone mod_fcgi, but I know lots of others use that combination successfully with Zen Cart.


Zen Cart does expect your "include_path" to contain the "." folder, which according to the messages you posted, it does. So it's not an issue of looking up relative paths.