HELP The home link will not goto home

The categories link that shows up across the top of page named HOME that should link to the home page .... Does not go to the home page it shows all my directories and I have to click the index page to get back to the index page. Where do I change that at ? Peace

Your URL?

Kim:

Your URL?
The site is not ready yet but here is the URL
kimberliteassemblers.com/commerce/a/b/

The home page link across the top of page when clicked takes me to my directories. How do I edit the links across the top of page?

The home page link that is at header and footer does not take me to my store home page ? How do I edit that link? Please help Meeee

It's giving you a file-listing.
That means your webserver is not setup to understand "index.php" to be a default page.
It's not a Zen Cart issue.

You'll need to ask your hosting company to set "index.php" to be treated as a default page, or you can try to do it yourself by creating a .htaccess file with something like this in it:```
DiRectoryindex index.php default.php index.shtml index.html index.htm

But, really your hosting company should have already done this if they're running PHP on the server.

Also, make sure you didn't ignore any of the warnings presented during the zc_install process. They are there to ensure that you deal with the problems before they cause unexpected behavior on your site.

The HOME links on all pages do not go to Store Index page they goto a page that shows all my directories? How do I edit that home link? Thks Peace

fuzzyevolution:

The HOME links on all pages do not go to Store Index page they goto a page that shows all my directories? How do I edit that home link? Thks Peace

It sounds to me that your host doesn't have it set up to allow index.php to be a default file name.

What happens if you just type in your domain name? ( http://www.YOUR_DOMAIN.com ) does it take you to your home page, or does it show a list of directories?

Sounds like the Hoster does not setup a default Index page (handy for new accounts that do not have any Content yet) nor it would seem, is the Hoster concerned much about security. Showing what's inside a dir. is not good for security purposes and is easily prevented.

As to Zen Cart, did you install it in a subdirectory? That could explain your current problem. More information on your setup would be helpful.

DWells:

It sounds to me that your host doesn't have it set up to allow index.php to be a default file name.

What happens if you just type in your domain name? ( http://www.YOUR_DOMAIN.com ) does it take you to your home page, or does it show a list of directories?

No it goes to my store home page. I set my host server to my zen cart home page.
My zen cart is also in sub directories. Peace

Website Rob:

Sounds like the Hoster does not setup a default Index page (handy for new accounts that do not have any Content yet) nor it would seem, is the Hoster concerned much about security. Showing what's inside a dir. is not good for security purposes and is easily prevented.

As to Zen Cart, did you install it in a subdirectory? That could explain your current problem. More information on your setup would be helpful.

Yes zen cart is in a subdirectory. I redirected my domain name to my zen cart store that is in a subdirectory.
my domain is https://www.kimberliteassemblers.com

And due to the changes you now made, another problem bites the dust. :wink:

Website Rob:

And due to the changes you now made, another problem bites the dust. :wink:

No I still have same problem

Refresh you Browser page. I used different Browsers to go to http://www.kimberliteassemblers.com/ and they all showed your Zen Cart Index page.

Website Rob:

Refresh you Browser page. I used different Browsers to go to http://www.kimberliteassemblers.com/ and they all showed your Zen Cart Index page.
yes but from my zen cart home page the HOME links do not take me back to my store home.

That is because of this:
http://www.kimberliteassemblers.com/commerce/a/b/

Change your 'includes/configure.php' file to point to the correct URL.

Or...

Reinstall Zen Cart in you Document Root dir. - one level above where it is now.

fuzzyevolution:

No it goes to my store home page. I set my host server to my zen cart home page.
My zen cart is also in sub directories. Peace

After seeing the link to your site, my money is on the way you're forwarding your domain to the Zen Cart folder is the cause of the problem... as well as it appears you probably installed Zen Cart before the forwarding took place.

If you told your host to forward: http://www.kimberliteassemblers.com/
To: http://www.kimberliteassemblers.com/commerce/a/b/index.php

Then the fix for your problem is with your host, so that index.php is a valid default file (so that when someone goes to: http://www.kimberliteassemblers.com/commerce/a/b/ it automatically loads http://www.kimberliteassemblers.com/commerce/a/b/index.php ) and after it is fixed, you should remove the /index.php from the forwarding address... But...

If you only told your host to forward: http://www.kimberliteassemblers.com/
To: http://www.kimberliteassemblers.com/commerce/a/b/

Then this is the Fix:

in .../includes/configure.php change Lines 25 & 26

define('DIR_WS_CATALOG', '/commerce/a/b/');
  define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG', '/commerce/a/b/');

To:

define('DIR_WS_CATALOG', '/');
  define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG', '/');

AND in: ../admin/includes/configure.php Lines 41, 42, 43 & 44
From:

 define('DIR_WS_ADMIN', '/commerce/a/b/admin/');
  define('DIR_WS_CATALOG', '/commerce/a/b/');
  define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_ADMIN', '/commerce/a/b/admin/');
  define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG', '/commerce/a/b/');

To:

 define('DIR_WS_ADMIN', '/YOUR_ADMIN_FOLDER_NAME/');
  define('DIR_WS_CATALOG', '/');
  define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_ADMIN', '/YOUR_ADMIN_FOLDER_NAME/');
  define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG', '/');

I suggest that while doing this you also change the name of your "admin" folder to make your site more secure and change lines 41 & 43 to represent this change in: ../admin/includes/configure.php

These are code samples are educated guesses as to what your configure files currently show right now based on the location the "home" link sends you.

Hope this helps -- Best of Luck.

Ooops... Looks like Website Rob posted before me.

Website Rob:

That is because of this:
http://www.kimberliteassemblers.com/commerce/a/b/

Change your 'includes/configure.php' file to point to the correct URL.

Or...

Reinstall Zen Cart in you Document Root dir. - one level above where it is now.

DWells:

After seeing the link to your site, my money is on the way you're forwarding your domain to the Zen Cart folder is the cause of the problem... as well as it appears you probably installed Zen Cart before the forwarding took place.

If you told your host to forward: http://www.kimberliteassemblers.com/
To: http://www.kimberliteassemblers.com/commerce/a/b/index.php

Then the fix for your problem is with your host, so that index.php is a valid default file (so that when someone goes to: http://www.kimberliteassemblers.com/commerce/a/b/ it automatically loads http://www.kimberliteassemblers.com/commerce/a/b/index.php ) and after it is fixed, you should remove the /index.php from the forwarding address... But...

If you only told your host to forward: http://www.kimberliteassemblers.com/
To: http://www.kimberliteassemblers.com/commerce/a/b/

Then this is the Fix:

in .../includes/configure.php change Lines 25 & 26

define('DIR_WS_CATALOG', '/commerce/a/b/');
define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG', '/commerce/a/b/');

> To:
> ```
define('DIR_WS_CATALOG', '/');
  define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG', '/');

AND in: ../admin/includes/configure.php Lines 41, 42, 43 & 44
From:

define('DIR_WS_ADMIN', '/commerce/a/b/admin/');
define('DIR_WS_CATALOG', '/commerce/a/b/');
define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_ADMIN', '/commerce/a/b/admin/');
define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG', '/commerce/a/b/');

> To:
> ```
 define('DIR_WS_ADMIN', '/YOUR_ADMIN_FOLDER_NAME/');
  define('DIR_WS_CATALOG', '/');
  define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_ADMIN', '/YOUR_ADMIN_FOLDER_NAME/');
  define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG', '/');

I suggest that while doing this you also change the name of your "admin" folder to make your site more secure and change lines 41 & 43 to represent this change in: ../admin/includes/configure.php

These are code samples are educated guesses as to what your configure files currently show right now based on the location the "home" link sends you.

Hope this helps -- Best of Luck.

DWELLS I made the changes per your suggestion & the home links on the store index page now take me to the store index page BUT the whole page seems to be missing pics, fonts and all the links on the page take me to a 404 error maybe I need to edit the CSS idaknow any thoughts on this would help if it is going to be a pain then I will just install zen in my root folder. Could you give me a quick one liner on re-installing....???? Peace

I think I checked out your site while you were making the changes... or shortly after you made the suggested changes (before changing them back).

what I saw was it looks like you are forwarding to a file, instead of a directory... the reason I figure this is what is happening, is some of my surfing earlier had ```
http://www.kimberliteassemblers.com/index.phpindex.php?main_page=

the "index.phpindex.php" is why you were getting 404 errors.

and because your site is allowing people to see the file structure of your site I suggest asking your hosting company if they have (and if they don't will they) it fixed so when someone goes to a directory, it loads index.php if available.

there is a setting in the hosting system (that you may have access to) that tells your server what to load and in what order... if index.php isn't listed Zen Cart will not load, and instead show the folder structure of the site.... most sites have it set up so it loads "index.html" then "index.php" and some hosts have an extra "default.*"

Again, talk to your host -- because if what I think is happening is the cause, even if you move it to your root folder, you'll continue to have the same problem.

If your host says it is set up to load "index.php" when someone types in a directory name... then you could try reinstalling Zen Cart to your root folder, or moving your current cart.

I know you asked for a one liner for what you should do-- but I thought it needed a longer answer.

Hope you manage to get your site working soon.