Just installed MS2-Max here's a few tips if your struggling

Hi to every one. Just installed the latest MS2-max version and thought I would leave a few tips for people who are having problems setting up. As it is my first time here I would first of all like to say hello and a very big thank you to Michael Sasek for all his hard work and generosity. I am very glad I found Michael’s site and Max version. I have been trying for weeks to install contribution in the standard MS2 version (most unsuccessfully I might add) and here they are, already done for me. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Following the OSCdox Installation guide, everything went ok until, Chapter 3, section starting “Using phpMyadmin”. I am a computer engineer not a programmer, until a few weeks ago I never even heard of php or used an SQL database, so this is all new to me. This is how I passed this section.

My web host provides cPanelX making it easy to setup a database. Just select MySQL databases icon from cPanelX, which takes you to MySQL Account Maintenance page. Find the section where it say add database and enter a name in the blank box. Say shop for example and click on Add Database. This creates a database with a filename starting with your user id you used to log on to cPanelX, for example fred . This makes our example database name fred_shop . Now create a User by entering a username and password under the users section on the MySQL Account Maintenance page. Now on the same page in databases section, select the user and database just created above, make sure all privileges is selected then click on “Add User to Database”. That’s it. The database serve is localhost. With this information I was able to proceed and successfully complete the rest of the installation.

Once installed, log into your /catalog/admin, using the default login, email address : admin@localhost.com password: admin . Now change this default password straight away by clicking on My Account (butterfly icon). Then edit, enter admin as the password again, then confirm. And carry on from there. Incidentally, when adding new members under the administrator menu, you are not asked for a password, a random password is emailed to the address entered for that member. The new member can then log on to admin and change there password in the same way.

Now click through the menus one by one and you should find everything installed ok (a credit to Micheal’s hard work) when you get to configuration, select cache, then cache directory and edit, change the cache directory. The default temp directory on my server was located in the root directory /tmp/. Check where yours is, if you do not have one create a temp directory.

Under catalog you will find Define Mainpage. This gave me an error on my installation; I was not able to write to mainpage.php. This was easily corrected by changing the /catalog/includes/languages/English/mainpage.php file permissions to 777.

Once you have been through the menus and are happy, backup your site. Download it to your computer using your ftp program or use your host cPanelX backup option if you have one.

Hope some one finds this useful. Now onto some modifications.

Do I have to change the use cache from false to true as well?

[Mibble]

even though there is nothing to execute on the mainpage.php, it should be set at 666 for permissions.

by the way, where did you find the download? i am sstill hunting for it!

BTW, if you change your cache from falst to true, please make sure you have permissions to the folder you have cache pointed to, else you will get errors.

[knullhund]

I wish all, if not most members, would post information in the format you posted. I accomplished more with your information in a few minutes than trying to hunt for info in the forum for hours on end. Thank you for simplicity and specificity.
Knullhund

[michael_s]

Yes, I agree. Nice post! This will be helpful to many.

[Kristine]

..wrong thread.. sorry

[penzman]

Once installed, log into your /catalog/admin, using the default login, email address : admin@localhost.com password: admin


I was just about to swallow the cyanide pill when i stumbled upon this...
Hour and hours searching and trying to guess how to do it...

Thanks!!!

[mfleeson]

Originally Posted by **swilliams**

Under catalog you will find Define Mainpage. This gave me an error on my installation; I was not able to write to mainpage.php. This was easily corrected by changing the /catalog/includes/languages/English/mainpage.php file permissions to 777.

One thing to mention, on unix the mainpage.php files are case-sensitive so you need to:
chmod 666 ./includes/languages/english/mainpage.php
chmod 666 ./includes/languages/espanol/mainpage.php
chmod 666 ./includes/languages/german/mainpage.php

Copy/pasteing /English/ gives an error on the latest 1.7 build.

Thanks a lot for the rest of the post, I suggest the addition of the user/password for admin to be added into the installation documentation.

Cheers

Mark

[innovations]

I am setting my site up on my local machince, and I made sure that the english/mainpage.php file was not set to read only, but I still get an error when attempting to change my main page in the admin panel.

Any help would be appreciated!

[mfleeson]

If its on your local machine, just use a decent html editor?, alternatively change the files to 777, i.e. chmod 777 ...../mainpage.php