Can't even get the installer to run - IISPassword 500 error

[kobra]

Is this IIS hosted or yours? Is it using Apache? or just IIS?

If hosted there will be a convention/path to the root of your web space so the these are not "fill-in-the-blank" item they are predefined

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Is this IIS hosted or yours? Is it using Apache? or just IIS?

If hosted there will be a convention/path to the root of your web space so the these are not "fill-in-the-blank" item they are predefined

I think this may answer your question, bottom of the page under "how is this possible?".

http://www.lfchosting.com/hosting.shtml


When you say "predefined", you mean predefined as in by the Zen Cart setup guide or predefined by my host? If it's the latter, I'll probably have to e-mail them.

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Well I've solved it. The installer runs.


This error is normally caused by a stray directive in an htaccess file.

Please check the directory that you are having problems with to see if there is an htaccess file there, if it is remove it and try to access the directory again.

If you have secure directories installed, please uninstall them and then manually delete any htacces or htpasswd files within this directory. After you have completed this, install secure folders again.

http://forums.yetihost.com/showthread.php?t=585

My WS_FTP LE program could not see the .htaccess file, but when I went through the directories through my webhost's file manager, I saw it sitting there, clear as day. A typical solution to this would be to remove all .htaccess files in the installation, but I'll leave that for when I actually have to. This could've been solved much sooner.

[kobra]

When you say "predefined", you mean predefined as in by the Zen Cart setup guide or predefined by my host? If it's the latter, I'll probably have to e-mail them.

By the way the host has this setup - and looking at what you provided:

I know that they hawk this as a "cool" setup, but do not take this on a long term basis as It appears to be sketchy...I do not favor a straight WIN setup but they work - best is a standard LAMP(linus/apache.mysql/php) install - this hybyrd with redirect could be glitchy & slow(or not).

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By the way the host has this setup - and looking at what you provided:

I know that they hawk this as a "cool" setup, but do not take this on a long term basis as It appears to be sketchy...I do not favor a straight WIN setup but they work - best is a standard LAMP(linus/apache.mysql/php) install - this hybyrd with redirect could be glitchy & slow(or not).

In spite of what little I know of servers, I do commonly hear of the "lamp" setup.