I am trying to install Cubecart and it fails at Step 2 saying permissions are not right. I am running php as cgi with phpsuexec enabled. This means I can't set file or directory permissions higher than 755.

Cubecart insists on setting it to 777 for the install. It is also reporting file permissions wrongly. I have set all file and directory permissions to 755, but it shows current permissions as 777, which is incorrect.

I am stuck on Step 2 as a result.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

In the zip file, there is a ReadMe.txt file. Look in that file at the Manual Install section. This will tell you what you need to do to install it. Just ignore where it says to make the files 777. You just have to ensure that they're writable by the server. This is pretty easy in your case.

Looking at the manual instal instructions it still tells you to chmod /images/uploads and /images/uploads/thumbs to 777 which is supposed to cause problems when running a server with phpsuexec however i have either CubeCart installs running on phpsuexec with the images folder at 777 without any problems whatsoever. What this may mean but i am not sure is that while your FTP client tells you it is 777 it might infact still be 755. You should find however that apart from /pear/tmp that all permissions are set before you get to step 2 or atleast that has been the case for me

Thanks! I used the manual install method and it worked, although it suggests to me that there are issues with the automatic installer.

I am not sure if I should be opening a separate thread for this, but when I try to login at http://www.domain.com/admin (my install is in the web root), I get the following error message:



In fact, the browser automatically redirects to http://www.domain.com/admin/admin/login.ph...admin/index.php

Is there a doc somewhere that explains what an admin must do after installing?

I appreciate your support very much.

Check the correct path in your global.inc.php