which files do I upload to the server?

Hi, I'm trying zen cart for the first time. the instructions on E:\zen-cart-v1.3.9h-full-fileset-10262010\zen-cart-v1.3.9h-full-fileset-10262010\docs\1.readme_installation.html seen easy to follow, but after you unzp the distribution files, which files do you upload to the server?

All the files :D

Where are you hosting your site? (ie: Who have you bought web-hosting from?)

godaddy is the web host

ok I'm trying to change the permission on diet-configure.php, but there is no catalog folder.

Can someone please help me?

There doesn't have to be a folder named /catalog/. Wherever the Zen Cart files are placed is the folder to start from. There will be an /includes/ folder there, and an /admin/, /zc_admin/, or whatever you have changed its name to.

If ZC is installed in the web root (where you land when you go to https://www.yoursite.com), it will probably be the /public_html/, /www/ or similar folder.

But on https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=107 under the Creating the configure PHP files section, it says to rename the diet-configure.php file which is located in the catalog folder, and later on it says to changes permissions on other folders that located in the catalog folder. how can I follow these instructions if I don't have the catalog folder?

"Catalog folder" means the folder the catalog (Zen Cart) is installed in, not a particular folder name.

Ok, they should have explained that better. Anyway, I see all the subfolders except languages, pub and media.

/languages/ is under the /includes/ folder. /pub/ and /media/ should be in the root.

"Upload, via FTP, the whole program into a directory on your server. Example: /catalog
(We will use "/catalog" as an example in this document. You can choose "no" foldername, or something else if you prefer, such as "/zencart", or "/store" etc) "

How is this a deficient explanation?

I just checked again and the languages, media, and pub aren't anywhere.

Your explanation made sense, but if you're reading the directions, nowhere that I know of, it didn't explain that catalog was an example of a foldername.

gjh42:

/languages/ is under the /includes/ folder. /pub/ and /media/ should be in the root.

"Upload, via FTP, the whole program into a directory on your server. Example: /catalog
(We will use "/catalog" as an example in this document. You can choose "no" foldername, or something else if you prefer, such as "/zencart", or "/store" etc) "

How is this a deficient explanation?

I found the languages folder under admin/includes but the html_includes wasn't there . Also, the media and pub folders are nowhere. Where can I download this again?

/admin/includes/ and /includes/ are completely different things. The /languages/ that you need to edit in should be under the base /includes/.

The home page of this site has a link to download the Zen Cart files.

That seems to have been the problem. I downloaded everything again and al the folders seems to be there!