Step By Step Guide to installing Zen Cart Shopping Cart Script

Hello there,
I will written a step by step tutorial on how to setup the Zen Cart Shopping Cart script. This is for beginners.

Zen Cart Step by Step Installation Guide

If you find any mistakes, please post here so that I can correct it.

Great Guide!
Clear & concise.
One problem I'm having is I'm not seeing the zencart Hello page.
what I've done is:
downloaded ipswitches ws_ftp software
installed ws_ftp software
opened ws_ftp software
navigated on the local side to my zencart files extracted
selected all 12 folders & 7 files total 19 objects
on the server side, navigated to the /public_html folder.
created a folder named "catalog" and then opened it
uploaded the 19 files to the catalog directory
it is here that I am stuck. your tutorial says I should now open my browser and point it at my domain. where it should now see the Zencart "Hello" page and thats the problem it doesn't show anything but my index page. obviously I've made some mistake but I cannot see it

surefiremedia

:frusty:well I've gone reading the tutorials on installing zencart and modified the 2 dist-configure.php files to reflect configure.php and 777 permissions.
still don't see the "hello" page for zencart when i aim my browser at my site. doesnt' even work if I aim it directly at the folder/zc install file. http://www.totallyawesomesigns.com/public_html/catalog/

I built my site from scratch and completed it in 9 days so far. never read a lick of html or code ever before. so what is it that i'm not doing right here, or seeing what to do?

http://www.totallyawesomesigns.com/public_html/catalog/ is wrong. Try http://www.totallyawesomesigns.com/catalog/zc_install/

Edit: I just tried it and I'm getting a 404 error (not found). Are you sure that's where you uploaded Zen Cart?

:no:Hi, that is exactly the correct path.

totallyawesomesigns.com/public_html/catalog/zc_install

tried it every way that makes sense w/ and w/o the public_html

I don' t guess it would work to attempt running the zc_install by actually clicking on the file itself in my CP for the site?

Try re-installing. Re-upload all of the files, maybe something is corrupted.

I'll try it! I wil admit that when I intially uploaded the program it was only 12 folders. the files didn't show to upload. also, an extra file loaded up with it it was the "full_file_set" file not zipped just in a folder of its own. so trying to follow the directons on the "step by step" guide I deleted all the files in the catalog directory except for the "full_file_set" and then back to the local side of the ws-ftp I opened the "full_file_set"
and now it looked like the captured image in te hstep by step guide with all 12 folders and 7 files so up they went in to the catalog folder and here we are!

Who is your host? Are you positive they support php files?

hostmaster.com
and absolutley! they were on eof the recommended hosts for the software straight from the zencart site.
they've got php_myadmin and several other options. still getting ready to install or upload i mean again. had to handle one
of my more troublesome employees.

k- so that isn't the problem. What are you using to unzip & upload the files?

Ok Kim,
i deleted all the files servers side and then uploaded straight to the public_html folder no sub-folder.
when i browsed to it there it was the hello page and so i start installing and changing permissioins. upon checking my settings the only thing zen came up with was something about the output buffer was turned off. but the box it was in said that this information was not a reporting of any real problem but it was just a convenient place to list that and the other info that was with it.
i created the database last night and using my db name and pw and host it keeps coming up with db does not exsist. i even deleted teh db and rebuilt it and it still says the same thing.... my host name? localhost usually right.... would that be localhost_totallyawesomesigns.com? nor jsut localhost alone?

also it was "php api mode= cgi-fcgi" had a yellow flag on it. but more info just said it COULD BE PROBLEMATIC on apache or unix systems, but never on windows
basically saying that running php as a cgi mode could casue problems on my server. am I able to request a change for that.
i mean this host was recommended by zencart.?

surefiremedia:

Ok Kim,
i deleted all the files servers side and then uploaded straight to the public_html folder no sub-folder.
when i browsed to it there it was the hello page and so i start installing and changing permissioins. upon checking my settings the only thing zen came up with was something about the output buffer was turned off. but the box it was in said that this information was not a reporting of any real problem but it was just a convenient place to list that and the other info that was with it.
i created the database last night and using my db name and pw and host it keeps coming up with db does not exsist. i even deleted teh db and rebuilt it and it still says the same thing.... my host name? localhost usually right.... would that be localhost_totallyawesomesigns.com? nor jsut localhost alone?

The hostname should be usually just "localhost".