Problem Installing OSCommerce
I was trying to install OSCommerce on my laptop last Wednesday for a web shop project. I download the latest version of OSCommerce from their website here. The version that I downloaded is 2.2 MS 2.
I have Apache 2 web server, PHP 5 and MySQL 5 database server installed on my laptop, so I guess I’m ready to install OSCommerce. I’m totally wrong.. I read the installation guide and it seems so easy to install, you only need to point your browser to http://<domainname>/<oscommerce folder>/install/install.php
The installation page does shown but I can’t go to step 2 of the installation, it always come back to the first step although the URL already changed to http://localhost/oscommerce/install/install.php?step=2. I tried with different browser and even tried to install OSCommerce on Linux workstation, but all have the same result, I can’t go next to step 2.
I also try to install it manually by creating the database and manually editing the configuration files. OSCommerce does run but it’s broken on its administration panel. I can’t configure it or add items on its catalog.
Then I find more information on OSCommerce website, and here I found out that OSCommerce doesn’t support PHP 5! I download PHP 4 and Apache 1.3.37, install it and guess what? OSCommerce installed successfully through its installation script!
Markus
June 1st, 2007 at 12:36 am
Strange. Most application will work flawlessly on PHP 4 and 5, but not with this one.
June 1st, 2007 at 2:21 am
Hi Kus, you can have the source code for this one:
http://www.boomatrix.com/asianfoodservices/
the only thing you have to do than is changing the layout and adding the products to the database and adding the pictures of course. one day work I suggest