Just set up a couple of osCommerce installations, initially to investigate the different behaviours of the two add-ons PWA (Purchase without account) and Checkout Redux, which streamlines things but seems to have a bug or two. Checkout Redux is on shop one while the other store started with PWA and is now getting other stuff on top, towards a suggested initial package for most stores. The front page should carry a current list of add-ons here.
Development osCommerce stores set up
May 4th, 2010New client site released
April 25th, 2010Just this week, I was asked quickly to implement a basic site for a last-minute candidate in the elections in a couple of weeks. She was able to give me text and images that had been prepared for a flyer, so it was possible to get the site up and running on the basic hosting in under a day’s work. The site is www.eolayokun.co.uk for Elizabeth Olayokun.
Error creating products: PHP Warning: move_uploaded_file(name.JPG)
February 14th, 2010The full error message is:
PHP Warning: move_uploaded_file(name.JPG) [<a href='function.move-uploaded-file'>function.move-uploaded-file</a>]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in …oscdir…/admin/includes/classes/upload.php on line 84
Proved to be a kind of intermediate permissions error. Goes away like other permissions problems with 777 insecure settings. To give the web server write access on Hostroute, you need owner set to cpanel user, group set to nobody and write permissions to both. You have to get Hostroute support to set group nobody, as it’s not permitted from the account shell access even when that’s turned on.
This exact error was after group was set to nobody but it only had read access; change permissions in ftp program.
This relates to install instructions: http://svn.oscommerce.com/confluence/display/OSCDOC/Pre-Installation+Steps#Pre-InstallationSteps-FileandDirectoryPermissions
Error creating products: PHP Warning: file_exists()
February 11th, 2010The full error message is:
PHP Warning: file_exists() [<a href='function.file-exists'>function.file-exists</a>]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/usr/bin/convert) is not within the allowed path(s): (…actual settings removed…) in …oscdir…/admin/includes/applications/products/actions/save.php on line 23
It turns out just to be a configuration error. Osc 3.0A5 defaults to Imagemagick for image processing with the path set to /usr/bin/convert. Delete this in program locations to make the error go away. See http://forums.oscommerce.com/topic/331275-imagemagick/page__p__1380028&#entry1380028
Hello world!
February 6th, 2010Time to move from notes on scrappy bits of paper to a medium that I can find again; useful hints and tips, problems and resolutions so that I can repeat installations and design solutions for other clients.
At some point, I may even configure Wordpress, but the cobbler’s children are always the last to get new shoes.