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Hello all!

I posted our shipping module woe and no one responded so I am trying again hope some nice sole out here can help. I have been on the forum for hours and reading posts - still no clear answer into why the shipping modules will not install.

Here's our situation:

We can see the install button when inside the admin panel. When I click the button nothing happens. Admin says the modules are at /home/username/public_html/mywebsite/includes/modules/shipping/. I have checked in that directory and I see:

a folder called CVS which contains files Entries, Repository, Root
6 other .php files: flat, item, table, ups, usps, and zones

Hopefully one of these is the file that installs the shipping modules. If not, could someone please let me know.

Then I have checked my 2 config files - one in catalog/includes and one in /admin/includes. Here is what I see for the path(s):


/includes --> define('DIR_WS_MODULES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'modules/');
/admin/includes --> define('DIR_FS_CATALOG_MODULES', DIR_FS_CATALOG . 'includes/modules/');

Those paths look correct I believe. I thought maybe the second one was wrong so I added 'admin' to the path: 'admin/includes/modules/'.

Still nothing when I click the install button. Nothing in the Modules admin will install - maybe that bit of info will help. Everything else is working excellent.

I hope someone can shed some light on what to do to resolve the issue. Please!

Put the 6 files into

/includes/modules/shipping

There should also be 6 files of the same names in /includes/languages/english/modules/shipping. These all contain a load of lines starting with the word define and are used to change the wording that apears on the screen.

should I 'move' them into that folder or just place a copy in there?

Move them.

Default values for configure.php in admin/includes

define('DIR_WS_INCLUDES', 'includes/');
define('DIR_WS_BOXES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'boxes/');
define('DIR_WS_FUNCTIONS', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'functions/');
define('DIR_WS_CLASSES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'classes/');
define('DIR_WS_MODULES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'modules/');
define('DIR_WS_LANGUAGES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'languages/');
define('DIR_WS_CATALOG_LANGUAGES', DIR_WS_CATALOG . 'includes/languages/');
define('DIR_FS_CATALOG_LANGUAGES', DIR_FS_CATALOG . 'includes/languages/');
define('DIR_FS_CATALOG_IMAGES', DIR_FS_CATALOG . 'images/');
define('DIR_FS_CATALOG_MODULES', DIR_FS_CATALOG . 'includes/modules/');
define('DIR_FS_BACKUP', DIR_FS_ADMIN . 'backups/');

Ok, they are moved + I made sure all 6 were in the languages directory as well. I do not see the "CSV" folder in the language area - wonder if that is causing a problem.

I have double checked my admin/config file and it matches yours.

Still when I click the install button nothing happens. Maybe a copy of CSV folder needs to be in language directory? Not sure what the heck that CSV folder + files are anyway.

Here is what is in the conf.php file:

define('DIR_WS_IMAGES', 'images/');
define('DIR_WS_ICONS', DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'icons/');
define('DIR_WS_CATALOG_IMAGES', DIR_WS_CATALOG . 'images/');
define('DIR_WS_INCLUDES', 'includes/');
define('DIR_WS_BOXES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'boxes/');
define('DIR_WS_FUNCTIONS', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'functions/');
define('DIR_WS_CLASSES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'classes/');
define('DIR_WS_MODULES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'modules/');
define('DIR_WS_LANGUAGES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'languages/');
define('DIR_WS_CATALOG_LANGUAGES', DIR_WS_CATALOG . 'includes/languages/');
define('DIR_FS_CATALOG_LANGUAGES', DIR_FS_CATALOG . 'includes/languages/');
define('DIR_FS_CATALOG_IMAGES', DIR_FS_CATALOG . 'images/');
define('DIR_FS_CATALOG_MODULES', DIR_FS_CATALOG . 'includes/modules/');
define('DIR_FS_BACKUP', DIR_FS_ADMIN . 'backups/');

Looks the same as yours. Any other ideas my friend?

Ah ha! It wasn't that the lines from the admin/includes/config were wrong (as you posted the correct ones), it was lines above that!

IE:

define('DIR_FS_DOCUMENT_ROOT', '/home/mywesbite/public_html/'); // where the pages are located on the server
define('DIR_WS_ADMIN', '/admin/'); // absolute path required
define('DIR_FS_ADMIN', '/home/username/public_html/admin/'); // absolute pate required

We had an extra path added to 4 or 5 of the defines. Once those were taken out we could install the shipping modules!