Installing ShopSite on a Cobalt Raq
Installing ShopSite on a Cobalt Raq is essentially the same as installing on any other Linux platform with a few minor changes:
- You must first determine which ShopSite build is right for your system.
- After running the installation, you must manually edit the .htaccess file in the ShopSite directory.
- You must manually set a couple of file permissions.
Here are detailed instructions:
- Contact your ShopSite Account Representative to get a username and password for FTP access to support.shopsite.com.
- Use an FTP client and login to support.shopsite.com. Go to the linux directory and download the ckplatform script.
- Run ckplatform from the command line on your Cobalt Raq. It will check the software installed on your Raq and tell you which build of ShopSite to download.
- Use your FTP client to download the recommended build of ShopSite for Linux.
- Use a valid user account on the server to unzip the zip file into a directory that the webserver can access. A Cobalt Raq does not have a special directory to put cgi's in such as the normal cgi-bin. You can just make an install directory and unzip everything into it.
- Run the web-based install by following the ShopSite installation instructions.
- After finishing the installation steps, you must edit the .htaccess file in the ShopSite directory. If you look in .htaccess you will see a line that says:
AuthType Basic
After this line, add the following:
AuthPAM_Enabled Off
Adding this line to .htaccess will enable users to log into the back office of ShopSite.
- Change the permissions of the store's HTML output directory. You can use the following command to change its permissions:
chmod +xr /path/to/html/dir
where /path/to/html/dir is the path you used the web based install that points to the HTML Output directory.
- If you have installed the Cobalt upgrade patch RaQ3-All-Security-3.0.1-8061.pkg, you must change ownership of all of the ShopSite directories, CGI programs, images, etc to the new user and group of the web server. You must also add the new user of the web server to each customer site group.
You should now have a working ShopSite store on your Cobalt Raq.
