Need a far simpler set of instructions please

gjh42:

You said earlier that you used Notepad for file editing. That can sometimes do funny things to files if you have a setting wrong. If you meant exactly what you wrote, I suggest you download Notepad++ from www.sourceforge.net. It is infinitely better than Notepad for file editing, and won't mess up a file by accident.

It may even show you what is wrong with your file copy.

Yup, that did it!:clap: After reading your suggestion I remembered that I had an installation of Crimson Editor on my comp so I made those Tag changes using it, uploaded the new meta_tags.php file to

includes/languages/english/MY_CUSTOM/meta_tags.php

and it worked perfectly. Thanks for that heads up. I will for now on use Crimson to do my customizations...

Thanks again GJH...

So ... you're saying that the instructions aren't the problem ... it was your choice of program used to edit the files.

gjh42:

You should compare your copy with a copy from a fresh download and see what's different and what might be missing

There is no configure file in the fresh download, it has 2 dist_configure.php, admin_configure.php and store_configure.php. They are identical, my confusion in was that shall I put missing '?>' in fresh installed store's configure.php files or not.
:wacko:

The closing php tag is NOT required. Removing eliminates the problem of having extra lines that cause "headers already sent" errors.

Lost Sheep - your first post in this thread was totally off topic for this thread. Please do not repost the same problem in multiple places. It only confuses the issues.

Oops, nevermind...

DrByte:

So ... you're saying that the instructions aren't the problem ... it was your choice of program used to edit the files.

Instructions??? The instructions were never the problem. The file editor was the apparent reason why I couldn't customize the meta_tags.php file only. I used notepad for it AND for another file I needed to change some text in but for some reason it worked fine for the english.php file and not the meta_tags.php file. The final problem I think was that the version of 1.3.8a that I downloaded for sourceforge.net was corrupted. After a few attempts with it, I started over one more time but this time I got a fresh download from a different mirror site. That folder seemed to work because it took considerably longer to upload on my ultra slow connection than all three times the original download took. Everything seemed to work with the fresh download as far as a basic installation is concerned.

STFlats:

DrByte:

So ... you're saying that the instructions aren't the problem ... it was your choice of program used to edit the files.

Instructions??? The instructions were never the problem.

Thanks - I'm just confirming that although you titled this thread "Need a far simpler set of instructions please", the issues really weren't related to the instructions.

Turning off wordwrap at the top of notepad may have been your problem all along.