Live Server Does Not Function Properly after Installation

Hello All:

This is my first time installing Zen Cart. vers 1.3.8.
Blacksun is my Hoster.

These were my Steps:

Created a database called greatstore. Already have an existing database called greatintl where the live server currently is.

Created passwords that are simliar except for the cases.

Created a directory under my webroot folder called GreatIn_2010 and had my zencart files unzipped and transfered in there via filezilla.

Followed instructions to install Zencart. Pointed my ZenCart towards the new Database: greatstore and set up username and password for admin that are simliar to the database greatintl.

Then I checked if my Live server was still the way it should be, I noticed that some tables were not there.

What could have happened?

I decided to uninstall and delete the datebase I created for Zen Cart... and it has not fixed the issue.

Thanks you

You don't say if you completed the entire INSTALL process.

Re: schoolboy

Yes I completed the entire installation of Zencart and was able to login into admin to test it a bit. For testing, I just changed the name of a folder and text.

If you told Zen Cart to install its tables in the "greatstore" database, then that's the only place where Zen Cart would touch anything. It would not touch your "greatintl" database unless you told it to.

When the Zen Cart installer runs, it uses the database name you give it, and then creates new tables in that database, deleting any tables that already exist by the same name.

If you've mistakenly told Zen Cart to install into your "greatintl" database, then it would have replaced tables by the same name as any Zen Cart tables. If that's the case, you'll have to restore your "greatintl" database from your own backups.

Sorry ... Zen Cart only works with the information you provide.

Re: DrByte

Thanks for that info. That is what I thought. I was and still am very confused how this happened. I even checked my configuration.php file with notepad++ and the database that it's pointing to is greatstore:

define('DB_DATABASE', 'greatstore');