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

[innovations]

I am using Dreamweaver MX 2004...

[seandon01]

THANK YOU FOR THIS TOPIC!!! I was gonna kill m computer until i found this post.. solved my simple problem

[doumawis]

i am not despered, but if you are in hurry to set up a shop than i can imagine that you don't like this sucking affair of installation.

The problem is the amateuristic installation manual with not all relevant details: you have to look in the forum or use your commen sense.
Well trial and error: that sucks and

The positive site of the story is that you are forced to study the subject databases and has to think about it.



doumawis

[nathanwheeler]

oki, first post , sorry if i do wrong.

IF you run oscommerce with a PHP5! installation you will get an empty screen when opening the
adminitsration page of your newly installed oscommerceMAX OR MS2
GO TO directory: admin/includes/classes/ and open upload.php , there is on line 30....
// self destruct
$this = null;

THIS should be :
// self destruct
$this == null;

[jaruss]

I too appreciate this post. I am having difficulty understanding the file structure for osCmax 2.2.

The templates directory has main_page.tpl.php

Is this the file that I need to edit to modify the home page?

Do I have to rename it since the admin menu is looking for main_page.php?

Thanks for any help.

[jaruss]

Ok, I've been reading more and understand that it is the main_page.tpl.php that I need to modify. Why does the admin menu catalog/contents/Define Main Page instruct you to modify mainpage.php? Am I supposed to rename main_page.tpl.php?

Sorry if I'm being really slow here... I'm not a programmer just someone trying to get this working.

Thanks.

[michael_s]

Define main page modifies the center content of the index page of your shop. main_page.tpl.php modifies the actual template of your site design, not any content.

[thatsme]

After installation on an apache php5 server I did this:

THIS should be :
// self destruct
$this == null;

but that message follows me now into my deepest dreams:

open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/includes/languages/german/login.php) is not within the allowed path(s):

Why I get this message on a new installation?

[paulM]

Originally Posted by nathanwheeler

// self destruct
$this = null;

THIS should be :
// self destruct
$this == null;

While this does help, it's not correct. "$this == null;" has no meaning here (that's why it helps as much as commenting the line out). It checks if $this equals null and returns true or false.

In stead of the above you could as well comment it out like

  // self destruct
  //$this == null;

But assuming the programmer had a reason to set $this to null, I would use:

  // self destruct
  unset($this);

myself

[newtothis]

I have problems too,I have done everything to get the define Main_Page writable but nothing, I logged in as the administrator with the regular default account admin@localhost.com and change the attributes to folder: cache,temp,define_mainpage/admin, languages and nothing..