ShopSite

Installing ShopSite on a Cobalt Raq


Installing ShopSite on a Cobalt Raq 3 is the same as installing on any other Linux platform, with three small changes:

  1. Download the static version of ShopSite for Linux at ftp://shopsite.com/linux/shopsite-sc-linux-static.zip. Use a valid user account for 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 in to it.
  2. After going completely through the web based install as normal, 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.

  3. The final step to get a store up and running is to change the permissions of the html directory (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.

You should now have a working ShopSite store on your Cobalt Raq.