Victory Over the Shopping Cart

Okay, it is not fully functional yet, but that problem I had last Monday night with the 3rd step of the installation as been something I've grappled with almost daily since last Monday.

I have consulted the Support Dept at OpenCart, (by email), but they had not replied with a solution yet. I also went to my hosting service several times, where they have very polite and thoughtful agents at the Chat Help lines. I explained all the different ways I'd tried to find the hostname path, and they looked things up and consulted with more experienced agents, but in the end I still could not get past that error message about the hostname. (I'll spare you all the nitty-gritty details).

But last night the agent offered to do a fresh installation for me. I had already done a second one, with no better results. But I gave the agent some time, then I went to see how it had gone.

There is always a time-stamp on files in a website. This was about 11 pm and I had done that re-installation at 8:04 pm. That was the time stamp on the files I was looking at, so I guessed that the agent had not over-written them in a fresh installation. I began to wonder if nothing had happened yet.

Then I spotted the link for logging in to the administrative panel of the shopping cart. I tried it with the username and password I had given it earlier, and voila! I got in. There was my dashboard! Now I could work at arranging the settings and by switching back and forth to some training videos on their site, I got going. I was finished with the first section about midnight, so I decided that was a good place to stop until my next session!

So, even if the agent didn't do anything to solve the problem, I know now not to worry about error messages, if I can find a way to go on to the next step, maybe by a direct URL address. That alone I see as a helpful wee miracle from the LORD. He does care about the details in our lives. (Put that in your mouth and chew it!)

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