RE: [cobalt-users] OS Commerce PKG

["Rick Ewart" <cobalt@xxxxxxxxx>]

> It seems to me that somebody had made available (either 
> freely or for a fee)
> a special PKG for installing osCommerce on a RaQ server, 
> blending it with
> the GUI and making it available for use by all domains.
> 
Might I suggest you just install it yourself and save $99? Granted, you
won't have the benefit of the GUI integration, but I am not sure it
REALLY is needed.... Also, might need to install manually on sites, but
it is VERY simple to do. More importantly, it relieves your dependence
on him when there are new updates... Ian (the guy at chainreactionweb)
is one of the developers, so I don't think he is going anywhere anytime
soon (and he isn't charging money either).

http://chainreactionweb.com/info/hosting/oscommerce-hosting.php

The site above is one of the developers of OS Commerce, who apparently
offers it on his sites. If you look at the bottom of the page, there is
a download link where you can get his entire setup. Its quite a bit more
robust than the regular OS Commerce as it has 20 something contributions
added in, as you can see on his page.

Here are some instructions I put together for installing with FTP access
only (no shell needed except perhaps to setup the database). Although
originally written for an Ensim box, I am sure these will work fine on
Cobalts too. To move from one site to another, its simply a matter of
copying, importing the SQL database and changing the configure.php in
the catalog and admin directories.

Your mileage may vary - feel free to update this with corrections or
embelishments, for example expanding on the database creation?

Rick

Setting up OS Commerce:

1.	Download the OSCommerce zip file from the address above and
unzip it to your PC. It drops into a directory call L5-CRE by default, I
believe.
2.	Add a site and create a database on the server, with a username
that has access to the databsae (use PHPmyAdmin if you have it
installed).
3.	FTP to site and login.
4.	Navigate to /web.
5.	Go to where you unzipped the files on your PC and rename the
admin directory under the main admin directory to oscadmin (i.e.
\L5-CRE\admin\admin to /L5-CRE\admin\oscadmin). This is important as
domain.com/admin means something to a Cobalt.
6.	Upload the catalog and oscadmin directories to the web site
(i.e. \L5-CRE\admin\oscadmin and \L5-CRE\catalog\catalog go to /web.
7.    Go get a beer - this will take a bit.
8.    Have another beer - it ain't done yet (and I didn't feel like
renumbering the whole list after I made some changes to the instructions
for the Cobalt way of things). :)
9.	You should now have 2 directories, /web/oscadmin and
/web/catalog.
10.	You will need to change the permissions on
/catalog/includes/configure.php to 744, and possibly the
/oscadmin/includes/configure.php also.
11.	Open a web browser and go to domain.com/catalog/install.
12.	Under step 2, make the Web Server Admin Tool Directory
/oscadmin/.
13.	Then make the WWW Admin Tool Directory /oscadmin/ also.
14.	Under step 3, set the database server to be localhost.
15.	Put in the username for the database username you assigned in
step 2.
16.	Put in the password you set for that username.
17.	The name of the database is whatever you called it when you
setup the MySQL database.
18.	The rest should be left to the defaults.
19.	Once installed, you need to remove the /catalog/install
directory
20.	chmod 777 the images directory at /catalog/images
21.	chmod 777 all the images (recursively) in /catalog/images
22.	Open the web browser and go do domain.com/oscadmin
23.	Login with the username of default and password of admin.
24.	If it bombs out, refresh the screen and click on Administration
button on the right (temporary problem I am working on).
25.	Click on "My Store" to get into the administration area
26.	Choose Administrators
27.	Choose Setup
28.	Choose New Admin
29.	Assign a new username and password. Be sure the check the pink
box to enable full access.
30.	Logout and log back in under that username.
31.	Delete the default Administrator.
32.	Setup the rest of the system.