a couple of issues

[j-slice]

I wasn't sure where to post this exactly, so I hope this is ok.

I just started to set up my zen-cart, and used the guide posted in this forum "First Steps to Setting Up Your Online Shop".

I got to:
"Admin | Configuration | GZip Compression
-- enable GZip Compression if your server supports it... this makes page display much faster, in most cases"

I tried to change it (the options where "0" for off and "1" for on). I clicked edit, and after that, everything went blank after it had finished loading.

For reference to see, my zen-cart is at this url: http://www.gettwistedaccessories.com...-full-fileset/

As you can see, there isn't really anything being displayed. I can't even access the admin part.

My second question concerns my url. I didn't really have any idea what I was doing at the time, so right now the shopping cart url is really long and quite undesireable. Is there a way to change this? I tried just changing the names but it didn't work and I had to change them back.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Ajeh]

Turn off the GZip ... does it work again?

If so, you need to speak to your hosting site why you do not have this available ... it really makes a difference ...

Moving the site from:

http://www.gettwistedaccessories.com...1-full-fileset

to something like:

http://www.gettwistedaccessories.com/catalog

Would mean changing all references to:

/zencart/zen-cart-v1.3.0.1-full-fileset/

to read:

/catalog/

in the two files:

/includes/configure.php

/admin/includes/configure.php

Or you could move it to your root directory if you prefer with similar modifications to the same 2 files ...

I prefer the subdirectory such as /catalog or /shop etc as it helps with faster upgrades for me ... but this is a personal preference ...

[j-slice]

It went blank before I could change the gzip. It happened when I pressed edit, and I never actually got to change it. And now I can't even log back into admin to see what's happening.

[Ajeh]

Via phpMyAdmin ... find your database and search the configuration table for the configuration_key GZIP_LEVEL

Set the configuration_value to 0

If, in fact, turning GZip on caused the problem ... this will turn it off ...

[j-slice]

the configuration was set to 0, and I have no idea what happened, so I deleted everything and started again, which wasn't that big of a hassle. But thank-you for your help!

[j-slice]

Weird, I just tried to change the configuration to 1 this time, and it didn't work and did the same thing. Luckily I was able to press the back button and change it back to zero.

[Ajeh]

Might wish to speak to your hosting site and see what is up with that ...