Photostore installation

[sonoferin]

Hi I am having trouble installing a script/website called "Photostore" It is over my head. I am an artist and wanted to set up a website to help display my artwork. After reading the setup file, I realize it is more than I thought it would be. The company is rip off they want money for every little step I take.

Here are the instructions I got with the program:

 

1. Set up a new database using your control panel for your hosting. Then import the file database.sql, located in the "assets/database" folder, into your new database. You can use phpMyAdmin to do this if your host has it installed.

 

If you are not sure where to setup or import a database on your hosting please contact your hosting provider. For help using phpMyAdmin please visit http://www.phpmyadmin.net.

 

2. Open the file database.php located in the "website" folder and enter your database username, password, database name & database host (usually localhost) for the new database you just created in step one. Save the file.

 

3. Upload all files in the "website" folder to your server using your FTP client. For help finding or using an FTP client visit http://www.ktools.net/support.php?id=73.

 

4. Once your files are uploaded to your server CHMOD the "uploaded_files","uploaded_images","ftp" and "stock_photos" folders to 777 (full write permissions). If you are unsure how to do this please do a google search for chmod tutorials to learn more.

 

5. Now go to http://yourdomain.com/manager (or http://yourdomain.com/photostore_dir/manager if you have PhotoStore uploaded in a sub directory of your hosting) and enter your product code. Your product code was sent to you in an email when you purchased PhotoStore. If you do not know your product code please contact Ktools.net support at http://www.ktools.net/contact.php.

 

You should now be able to log in using...

username: admin

password: admin

 

6. To configure your site change the settings under the "Settings" tab to your own settings.

 

Your PhotoStore website should now be installed and ready to use.

Sorry to sound so dumb, but you guys here seem to be experts at this kind of stuff.

If someone could simplify this a bit I would appreciate it.

 

Thanks in advance

Martin

oh here is a link to the website to see what it is I am trying to do. http://www.ktools.net/index.php

[PFMaBiSmAd]

Those are fairly well written instructions, except #3 should have instructed you to determine what path you wanted the script to be at on your site (domain root or in a folder) and to create the folder if necessary and to then upload the files into the correct path.

 

What step did you have a problem with when you attempted this?

[bcoppersmith]

I am installing photostore as well. I have found the instructions very good but am having a problem on my local "MAMP Pro" installation with the  Zend extension/Ioncube thing. I have the following message:

 

Step 1: Successful! The license file is present.

Step 2: Successful! The ioncube directory is present.

Step 3: FAILED!

The ioncube loader is present but it is not decoding the files.

Possible Reason:

It appears that you are using a local php.ini file to adjust your php settings.

If this is the case then you may need to add additional code to that php.ini to make the loader work.

 

The additional code you would add is this, and again keep in mind that you may not need to even add this, but if your store doesn't work still then you will want to try adding this:

Code:

zend_extension="/Users/bj/Sites/flite-site/photostore/ioncube/ioncube_loader_dar_5.2.so"

 

Having followed these instructions and modified the php.ini file for MAMP Pro I restarted the server only to find that MAMP Pro had rewritten the php.ini to its original version. Have hunted out source files that would do this without luck!

 

Any help is very much appreciated ...