Shopping Cart Software

ZARZOR · #1 01-20-2005, 05:23 PM

guys, I'm new to oscommerce I have installed it and set up all successfuly, however I have problem with index.html page, my server direct any http enquiry to the default page index.html which has nothing on, how I can change this so it load oscommerce default page which I assume it is index.php or catalog.php right.

any comments appreciated.

ZARZOR · #2 01-20-2005, 07:42 PM

I know you can use redirection method.
by typing this in the index.html file, however I don't like redirection I would like all viewers to see /catalog page instead, which file should I edit to make it happen?

<html>
<head>
<META Http-equiv="refresh" Content="0; Url=https://www.yoursite.com/catalog">
<title>
Transfering to site. (Enter your own title here)
</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor=ffffff>
<center>
 
 
Please wait while you are transfered to our site 
Or click <a href="http://www.yoursite.com/catalog">http://www.yoursite.com/catalog</a>
</center>
</body>
<html>

any reply appreciated.

**michael_s** · #3 01-20-2005, 08:12 PM

use .htaccess:

DirectoryIndex index.php index.html

Or to redirect to the catalog dir:

DirectoryIndex catalog/index.php

ZARZOR · #4 01-21-2005, 07:47 PM

I did use .htaccess and put this entry in it DirectoryIndex index.php index.html still didn't work

**michael_s** · #5 01-21-2005, 08:23 PM

It needs to be in the base public_html dir.

If you have osCMax installed in the catalog dir, you need to use the second one example:

DirectoryIndex catalog/index.php

ZARZOR · #6 01-21-2005, 09:08 PM

NO Michael I have oscommerce 2.2 installed but I have loaded the catalog in public_html as /public_html/catalog/ which contains catalog and admin folders plus all files, so another word I didn't install it on the root / but sub folder with the data base set up and everything, if I have to move all folders and files to root will I lose url connections and database link, what would you suggest should i istall it again from the root directory or it would be all right if I just moved all the files to root, what do you suggest mate.

developer_x · #7 01-22-2005, 04:12 AM

Hi,
If you just move all the folders n files to the root, you will obviously lose url and database links. The links can be corrected by modifying the configure.php file. However as you are a newbiew, I would suggest you to reinstall the pacakge to the root. It won't take much time and effort to do that.

**michael_s** · #8 01-22-2005, 08:33 AM

Ok, maybe I am not understanding you, but what I suggest in htaccess:

DirectoryIndex catalog/index.php

That needs to be put in an .htaccess file the public_html root dir, not your shopping cart. What the above statement does is automatically forward all requests from http://yoursite.com to http://yoursite.com/catalog/index.php. This is the easiest fix there is. 2 minutes and it is done.

From what you are asking, that does EXACTLY what you want. Redirect all traffic to your catalog/index.php automatically without having to move ANY files at all.

vinces · #9 01-22-2005, 11:45 AM

Or even easier, from cPanel set up a redirect. Then you don't need to edit any files.

christian_linde · #10 01-23-2005, 08:29 AM

Thanks for the great information on this! It sorted the same problem for me!

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