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I admin a OSCommerce store for a client. I recently moved his store from one domain to another. When I got the store up an running I was seeing the following error:
Error: Catalog images directory does not exist
After double checking that the owner of the dir was correct and the permissions were 777 I moved on to the two configure.php files.
The fix is in the admin/includes/configure.php change the line:
define(’DIR_FS_CATALOG_IMAGES’, DIR_WS_CATALOG . ‘images/’);
to
define(’DIR_FS_CATALOG_IMAGES’, ‘../images/’);
June 10th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
Thanks for this solutions.
It solves my problem on my computer
July 11th, 2007 at 1:01 am
Thnx! Fixed my problem as well!
September 3rd, 2007 at 5:28 pm
That is NOT the best way to fix this problem! When you set up the shopping cart for the first time you set the path to the root directory of OsCommerce on the hosting server.
The path looked something like this:
/home/myusername/myurl/catalog/
You have to fin out what the path is to the catalog folder on the new server, and change the code.
The code is in the two configure.php files. These files are located in the includes/ directory and the admin/includes/ drectory.
they look something like this:
define(’DIR_FS_CATALOG’, ‘/home/myusername/myurl/catalog/’);
There is one line to fix in the includes/configure.php file, and 3 or 4 lines to fix in the admin/includes/configure.php file.
The fix described obove may work in the short-term, but it is not a fix!
September 14th, 2007 at 3:38 am
You are the best
thanks a lot!
December 11th, 2007 at 6:25 pm
I might have a newer version, but in case some one else is pulling their hair out like I was. My error affected both the images problem and header tags, of course it was incorrect path affecting both, so my fix killed two birds with one stone.
I changed the the following:
define(’DIR_FS_DOCUMENT_ROOT’, $DOCUMENT_ROOT);
to:
define(’DIR_FS_DOCUMENT_ROOT’, ‘/home/sites/user/myurl/htdocs/’);
That was it. I think I over wrote my original configure file.
April 3rd, 2008 at 8:11 am
Gracias, muchas gracias. Me salvaste de verdad.
November 6th, 2008 at 2:27 am
I solve it simple. In configure.php i delete first / from ‘/catalog/’ => ‘catalog/’
Just this and it works fine.
March 10th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
Thanks, this is the solution
May 1st, 2009 at 8:00 am
my version of the problem was me i think.i installed it on my computer then upload to the server hoping to tweak alittle settings here and there n fix the issue.i tweaked but still that damn Error: Catalog images directory does not exist
the above didnt work for me. later i suspected my
define(’DIR_FS_DOCUMENT_ROOT’, ‘/www/bulamu.com’);
may be the problem.the site works yes but what if these sneaky hosts of mine did not tell me my full document root. to get it fast i looked for this
this > define(’DIR_WS_INCLUDES’, ‘includes/’);
i changed it to this > define(’DIR_WS_INCLUDES’, ‘/includes/’);
………..
i got an error about a file not being found but the full path was clear stating the missing file some thing like /mnt/w0502/d48/s00/b0268149/www/bulamu.com/includes/sss.php is missing.
i corrected the error i had made to the DIR_WS_INCLUDES and then updated
define(’DIR_FS_DOCUMENT_ROOT’, ‘/www/bulamu.com’);
to
define(’DIR_FS_DOCUMENT_ROOT’, ‘/mnt/w0502/d48/s00/b0268149/www/bulamu.com’);
save all changes to my admin/includes/configure.php file….uploaded..and Voila..
the damn error vanished.felt good.
May 1st, 2009 at 8:52 am
also edited
define(’DIR_WS_CATALOG_IMAGES’, DIR_WS_CATALOG . ‘images/catalog’);
to
define(’DIR_WS_CATALOG_IMAGES’, DIR_WS_CATALOG . ‘images/catalog/’);
and
define(’DIR_FS_CATALOG_IMAGES’, DIR_FS_CATALOG . ‘/images/catalog/’);
to
define(’DIR_FS_CATALOG_IMAGES’, DIR_FS_CATALOG . ‘/images/catalog’);
it seems the FS directories should not have the last / at the end unlike the WS directories.
i made sure that catalog directory exists and is 777.
in my tinkerin i made the followin files 777
/admin/includes/classes/upload.php
/admin/categories.php
June 23rd, 2009 at 5:54 am
Thanx a lot…..
September 16th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
Hello, i have tested every single one of the configs that you show here, but min (error) is still there.
Another issue is that in my test server with ezosc i cannot see any image:
http://hobbymixpt.com/
November 12th, 2009 at 6:09 am
what is the equivalent path for a windows NT server please?
January 11th, 2010 at 10:58 am
EXCELLENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Worked for mee
May 13th, 2010 at 4:49 pm
why does this work?
why is it that there are no image directory errors in admin in one server, but when changing the files and database to another server (and editing the paths in the config files correctly) the error shows up in the other host server?
another way of saying it is…
in the first server the system is ok with this line:
define(’DIR_FS_CATALOG_IMAGES’, DIR_WS_CATALOG . ‘images/’);
in the next server the system doesn’t like that line anymore, instead it likes this line:
define(’DIR_FS_CATALOG_IMAGES’, ‘../images/’);
why is that?
why can’t the same line work in both web hosting servers?
September 27th, 2010 at 5:57 am
i had the same problem when my host has changed the servers.
the last solution is working for me, thanx alot!
this is a great place for solutions, i would like to see more of oscommerce issues here!
November 17th, 2010 at 4:37 am
thank you very much, I was looking for it and after 2 hours you given me this great solution!!!