[SOLVED] Site is broken, moved it now has many errors

Both threads, try firing it up, blank file may owe to ftp client not knowing what editor to use, file will appear unchanged after new upload when timestamps are preserved.

A few days away from this problem and it is still driving me mad

So I have decided to do the following:

Delete all the files from the /store folder via FileZilla
Download a fresh version of OC 1.5.6
Create yet another fresh, empty database
Upload the fresh OC 1.5.6 files
Download a fresh version of Export/Import for 1.5.6 from http://www.mhccorp.com/export-import-tool
Rename the config-dist.php to config.php and admin/config-dist.php to admin/config.php
Run the install, all pre-installation checks are green for go, enter new db and new admin info
Delete Install folder
Download a fresh version of vqmod-2.4.1-opencart.zip
Install vqmod following Autoinstaller instructions here http://code.google.com/p/vqmod/wiki/Install_OpenCart
Follow installation instructions for export/import, including upload the vqmod folder
The export/import tool works - yeayyy!!!

Now onto the customisations....

I am getting the impression that we have a clean install of the entire Gewerken -- working -- possible happy camper spotted.

So far so good, the problems may start when I try to move it to the ambercat.co.uk instead of /store. So I might just leave it where it is and redo the blog so it is much more shop orientated.

I created a copy of the default theme folder and started to customise that, having selected it in system/settings, but the changes didn't show until I made them in the default theme as well. Not a major problem but it did confuse me for a while.

Fingers crossed things will run smoothly from here on in.

I can't thank you enough butte for all your help and the time you have spent on this

You're very welcome. TAC, I would leave it where it is, /store/, and for that matter I would put the blog in its own /blog/, so that a landing that is neither "bloggy" nor "cartish" would hold the root and could pass to both of them. You can readily make an index.html based upon the upper portion of the blog, as seen in landing, and link from there, across the top, to store and blog and whatnot. At the moment there is an addressable root /index.php firing the blog as well as an addressable root /index.html leading to http://www.personalisedemporium.co.uk/, which could also be linked from the (new) root /index.html redesigned for http://www.theambercat.co.uk/ -- no muss, fuss, feathers, or kitty litter. Your blog is wordpress, look through its tree for whereami.cgi and if you find it, then KILL whereami.cgi outright, whatever relies upon it nowadays is completely unacceptable code, it is a longstanding vulnerability to even budding hackers, long known especially to them, and to boot they do have hacker forums -- see http://forum.opencart.com/viewtopic.php ... 65#p440331 with links there to more, and http://forum.opencart.com/viewtopic.php ... 59#p443765 , all for example.

No idea how the personalisedemporium link got in there

Rename it [somethingyoucanremember].htm, then it will not be a primary default index (those are all index.html, index.htm, index.php, index.asp, etc.) -- or just leave it addressable, as-is. Visitors to theambercat.com without naming a file will land on your theambercat material. Visitors addressing it will go there instead. I had purposely addressed index.html to see which primaries are there. Both have same registrant, V. R. in L'shire, same servers (web/mail/name), so you might well have known each other for a very long time, actually.

It's another of my shops, just meant I didn't know how it got linked to this one

Thought I was getting on really well with the new install but now have another problem....
http://forum.opencart.com/viewtopic.php ... 56#p447856

You've got it down to little stuff now, and you're doin' well.

All thanks to you butte, I really appreciate all your help

You're quite welcome. I'm happy to be able to help, and to help.