Installing with WAMP5

[oxicottin]

Your welcome!!! Did you get everything up and running? Anyone else want to use the tutorial I will be happy to give it out.....

[ckosloff]

Hey oxicottin,
Great job.
I do have a couple questions and I ask them publicly so others might benefit.
I am a total newbie to ZC and wamp5, so will ask many questions in the beginning.
I already installed the store, but upon launching the installer get some warnings:
! PHP GD Support = OFF
! GD version = GD
! PHP Output Buffering (gzip) = OFF
I have no idea how to customize a local installation, although installed remotely already with no errors.
Your help is greatly appreciated.

[oxicottin]

If your running the image handler2 you have to have the G2 Libary installed. Follow the directions on page 75 for the G2. Also, GZip is on page 30... What do you mean customize a local install? You customize it just like you would on your "Paid" server

Let me know if this helps

[MeltDown]

Your welcome!!! Did you get everything up and running? Anyone else want to use the tutorial I will be happy to give it out.....

Yes, please! I'm just going to start the process and would really appeciate the tutorial - Thanks!

[oxicottin]

You have to PM me because the .pdf is 2.85mb and wont fit as an attachment on here.

[MeltDown]

First off: Very nice tutorial, Oxicottin! Thanks for that.

I've hit a bit of a glitch, however. I followed the steps through to when I re-named the config files in c:/wamp/www/zencart. Then, as directed, I opened my browser and entered http://localhost/zencart but got a 404 - Page not found.

Any idea what step I missed?

PS If I enter http://localhost/ in my browser I do get the "Index of /"
Wouldn't that indicate that local host is alive and well?

[oxicottin]

try the icon in your tray! scroll to the top and select localhost and tell me what pops up.. also dont type in /zencart just use http://localhost

Note: Be sure you have Apache and MySql running.. The half circle in the tray will be white. If it has red in it you have nothing running or if it has yellow in it you only have 1 thing running

[MeltDown]

I get an active page:
http://localhost/ and index of /

[MeltDown]

You know, I just realized that Zen in installed on the c: drive at:

wamp/www/zencart/zen-cart-v1.3.6-full-fileset-10272006/

instead of /zencart. That could be causing this, correct?

[oxicottin]

try typing that path in your browser http://localhost/zencart/zen-cart-v1...eset-10272006/ That could cause problems though. Try installing it in zencart not in zen-cart-v1.3.6-full-fileset-10272006

Im going to check something let me know what it does