Change Operational Directory

Recently I cofigured a Zen Cart within the shop directory, from the main website. Once the website went live it was decided that the Zen Cart should operate from the root directory. Changing the operational directory for Zen Cart to the root directory. To make the change there are a couple of configuration files to be edited. given below are the original configuration files parameters, followed by their new values.

Original values

/includes/configure.php

• define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://shop.mywebsite.co.uk');
• define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG', '/mywebsite.co.uk/shop/');
• define('DIR_FS_CATALOG', '/home/sites/mywebsite.co.uk/public_html/shop/');
• define('DIR_FS_SQL_CACHE', '/home/sites/mywebsite.co.uk/public_html/shop/cache');

/admin/includes/configure.php

• define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://shop.mywebsite.co.uk');
• define('HTTP_CATALOG_SERVER', 'http://shop.mywebsite.co.uk');
• define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_ADMIN', '/mywebsite.co.uk/shop/admin/');
• define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG', '/mywebsite.co.uk/shop/');
• define('DIR_FS_ADMIN', '/home/sites/mywebsite.co.uk/public_html/shop/admin/');
• define('DIR_FS_CATALOG', '/home/sites/mywebsite.co.uk/public_html/shop/');
• define('DIR_FS_SQL_CACHE', '/home/sites/mywebsite.co.uk/public_html/shop/cache');

New values

/includes/configure.php

• define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://www.mywebsite.co.uk');
• define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG', '/mywebsite.co.uk/');
• define('DIR_FS_CATALOG', '/home/sites/mywebsite.co.uk/public_html/');
• define('DIR_FS_SQL_CACHE', '/home/sites/mywebsite.co.uk/public_html/cache');

/admin/includes/configure.php.

• define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://shop.mywebsite.co.uk');
• define('HTTP_CATALOG_SERVER', 'http://www.mywebsite.co.uk');
• define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_ADMIN', '/mywebsite.co.uk/admin/');
• define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG', '/mywebsite.co.uk/');
• define('DIR_FS_ADMIN', '/home/sites/mywebsite.co.uk/public_html/admin/');
• define('DIR_FS_CATALOG', '/home/sites/mywebsite.co.uk/public_html/shop/');
• define('DIR_FS_SQL_CACHE', '/home/sites/mywebsite.co.uk/public_html/cache');Fix cache mod

In addtion to the above changes it is likely that whilst moving your files around that the file permission settings have been changed. The confguration file /admin/includes/configure.php needs to have permission chmod value of 644.

NAT January 2007