Installing ShopSite on a
Plesk PSA Managed Server
Installing ShopSite on a PSA Managed Server is essentially the same as installing on any other Linux platform with a few minor changes:
- You may have to download and install an unzip utility.
- You may have to manually create some directories and set ownership before running the ShopSite installation program.
- After running the installation, you must create a symbolic link to display images securely.
Here are detailed instructions:
- Contact your ShopSite Account Representative to get a username and password for FTP access to support.shopsite.com.
- Create a directory to hold the ShopSite install files. For example, create a "ssinstall" directory under the server's cgi-bin directory.
- Use an FTP client and login to support.shopsite.com.
- Navigate to the Linux folder on support.shopsite.com and download the zip file to a directory on your server where you keep compressed (zipped) program installation files.
- Use an unzip utility to unzip the ShopSite zip file into the directory that you created in step 2. (If your server does not have an unzip utility installed and it is running a version of RedHat Linux, install the unzip package. If your server is running FreeBSD, download and use Unzip from Info-Zip.)
- Create directories named "ss" and "sc" in the cgi-bin directory.
- Set ownership for both directories to apache:apache (or whatever the user account name is that your Web server runs as).
- Create a directory named "ssdata" at the same level as the cgi-bin directory and set ownership to apache:apache.
- Edit the httpd.include file and set AllowOverride All for the cgi-bin directory for both secure and non-secure Web browsers.
- Run the web-based install by following the ShopSite installation instructions.
- Create a symbolic link named "store" in the httpsdocs directory that points to "../htdocs/store" and set ownership to apache. This allows images to be accessed securely in the shopping cart.
You should now have a working ShopSite store on your Plesk Server.
