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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.
Originally Posted by **swilliams** 
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