I'm stumped. I'm not so sure what is the answer to that question. I'll do some poking around and get back to you if I find an decent answer. You should email the people at iContact as they probably could help you..
Hi Chris,.
Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. Im not a 100% sure if all the files are in the correct directory but when I searched for the application_top.php I could see it in the includes directory..
When I connect to my remote iContact site using filezilla, the following folders are available to transfer files to: -.
/.cpanel.
.fontconfig.
.htpasswds.
Access-logs.
Etc.
Mail.
Public_ftp.
Public_html.
Tmp.
Www.
I have been copying all the files within my template catalog folder (apart from the catalog folder itself) to the public_html folder. Am I right in doing that? Is it ok to copy all the template files to that directory without creating a folder? thanks Chris x..
The public_html is the correct location to upload your catalog folder to yes, inside the catalog folder is a set of files and folders one of which will be called includes, open that and in there you should see your application_top.php file.
Nic..
No. If you are loading osC from catalog/ into public_html/, you still need to create public_html/includes/ to copy catalog/includes/ into, etc...
Im a bit confused now, so if I was to start fresh, would anyone be able to talk me through it?.
Say i've got my template folder which is called 'catalog' at the moment, thats located in my documents. When I open filezilla and connect to my web server I see the following directories:.
/.cpanel.
.fontconfig.
.htpasswds.
Access-logs.
Etc.
Mail.
Public_ftp.
Public_html.
Tmp.
Www.
Should I upload all the files from within the 'catalog' folder or upload the 'catalog' folder aswell as all of it's files to the public_html directory? If so will that mean when people visit my iContact site will www.mywebsite.com/catalog instead of just www.mywebsite.com?.
What I did before was upload all the files in the 'catalog' folder but not the 'catalog' folder itself and put them in the public_html directory. This seemed like a mistake because all the files from my template folder were mixed in with the files that were already in the public_html directory like .htaccess, 404.shtml and default.htm..
I was able to install oscommerce but when I had finished the installation I could never figure out how to open any of the template pages. I tried typing in www.mywebsite.com.index.php but nothing happened. I would get:.
Warning: require(includes/application.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/tempdo36/public_html/index.php on line 13.
Warning: require(includes/application.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/tempdo36/public_html/index.php on line 13.
Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'includes/application.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/tempdo36/public_html/index.php on line 13.
Thanks, sarah...
You.
Can.
Put your store into public_html/catalog/ if you wish it's the default installation and many people do. The downside is that you then need to do something to redirect visitors from your iContact site root to catalog/. That's not a biggy, and leaves your iContact site root uncluttered in case you want to add other applications later (you add a landing page in the iContact site root with links to your store, your forum, your gallery, ...)..
It's also legal to install your store directly into the root (public_html/), but I would advise against doing that, for the reasons given above..
No matter what you choose to do, you.
Must.
Preserve the directory structure found in catalog/. That is, there is a catalog/includes/application_top.php, so you must have either public_html/includes/application_top.php, or public_html/catalog/includes/application_top.php. You can.
Not.
Dump everything into the same directory it won't work!..