Newbie with Configuration problem

[onceupon]

I'm in the middle of the install and it comes up with this error:

The configuration files do not exist, or permission levels are not set.

Please perform the following actions:
cd /home/onceupon/public_html/catalog/includes/
touch configure.php
chmod 706 configure.php
cd /home/onceupon/public_html/catalog/admin/includes/
touch configure.php
chmod 706 configure.php

Now, I have changed the chmod to 777 (like it says to in the error) and it doesn't work, the files are in the directories that it says they don't exist. I've tried modifying the files but to no avail. Am I doing something wrong? I've followed every step to a T and I'm getting frustrated as I've been stuck on this step for hours.

Any help would be appreciated.

Amy

[amaddeus]

Are you sure you have the configure.php files in the ./catalog/includes/ and the ./catalog/admin/includes/ directory? I had this same problem until I figured out I was putting the files in the wrong directories.

[onceupon]

Positive, I'm in the process of having just finished taking everything off my server and uploading it again under my server as /catalog/... and when I get to the same point it now comes up with an error because I don't have it under the /home/user/public_html/catalog

What I find so frustrating is that no where does it say to put anything under /home/ until during the installation script. Where exactly does everything belong? I have it currently under /public_html/catalog/. Am I supposed to be putting it under /home/user/public_html/catalog ? Because that's what I did last time and it didn't work.

Thank you so much for any input!!

[amaddeus]

It goes under /home/user/public_html/catalog/ if catalog is your directory. Meaning, will you access OSCommerce at www.yoursite.com/catalog or just www.yoursite.com. If the latter, then the absolute address is /home/user/public_html/.

Hope that helps.

[onceupon]

Got it working!! Now my only problem is that it comes up with the Warning...
Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent by (output started at /home/onceupon/public_html/catalog/includes/functions/general.php:1257) in /home/onceupon/public_html/catalog/includes/functions/sessions.php on line 67

Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at /home/onceupon/public_html/catalog/includes/functions/general.php:1257) in /home/onceupon/public_html/catalog/includes/functions/sessions.php on line 67
[osCommerce] [My Account] [Cart Contents] [Checkout]

This is my fault because I was following instructions on how to change the "What's New Here?" to show the Categories instead. I've tried to fix everything to the way it was before but it's not working for me.

[amaddeus]

Good to hear that you got it working. Since you say that you broke it in other ways trying to fix it, I would suggest simply doing a re-install, just don't do the database part. Then you can apply your new knowledge and get a good clean install.

[peteyg]

Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent by (output started at /home/onceupon/public_html/catalog/includes/functions/general.php:1257) in /home/onceupon/public_html/catalog/includes/functions/sessions.php on line 67

Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at /home/onceupon/public_html/catalog/includes/functions/general.php:1257) in /home/onceupon/public_html/catalog/includes/functions/sessions.php on line 67
[osCommerce] [My Account] [Cart Contents] [Checkout]

This is my fault because I was following instructions on how to change the "What's New Here?" to show the Categories instead.

The reason why you get this error is becasue of your text editor. Windows and unix use different characters for white space and what not...anyways if you are using word pad on windows i suggest not using it...try getting a copy of macromedia dreamweaver or find free text editor you can download. There are many to choose from.

[amaddeus]

Ahhhh, that is good to know. Thank you peteyg.

[onceupon]

Ah ha! I have dreamweaver... a friend of mine told me not to use it because it coded differently... shows me for listening to them!! Thanks so much!