With osCommerce installed now, one might be forgiven for breathing a huge sigh of relief because everything has been done and the universe is unfolding as it should. Of course, I urge you to click on the Catalog option on the final installation window in order to get a reality check. You will no doubt find that the page that is brought up spawns some horrid-looking warnings before actually displaying anything that could be mistaken for an online shop, much like this:
Don’t worry, though! We’ll quickly talk about how we can make these warnings disappear.
Note
Some of you may have noticed that the URI in the previous screenshot says localhost
instead of www.contechst.com
. This is because, for the purposes of testing, much work was done on the author’s own machine and not on the live site. This doesn’t affect you at all and you will be able to follow along on your own hosted site regardless.
To begin with, the first warning tells us that the install
directory exists within...