Greetings - made another attempt today using Softaculous again, thought after some time this would be corrected but it is not. BTW, I did change all the file permissions as set forth in the documentation after the install via FTP but to no avail.
Tech at my host solved previous problem:
Well, I got it to work, at least. There appears to be a bug in the software code, as the error log was showing this complaint:
[20-May-2014 19:52:41 America/Chicago] PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function write() on a non-object in /home/farmer/public_html/trial/core/lib/cache.php on line 53
I commented out the following function in the above script:
# if(!is_array($cache_files)){
# $this->registry->get('log')->write('Cache directory is not accessible or writable. Caching operation was skipped!');
# }
And the site now resolves. I'm not sure of the implications of that change, it appears that all it does is test a caching functionality. You may be able to get better input on that from the AbanteCart develoeprs or any support forums they offer. But for now it seems to be working.
Also opened a ticket with Softaculous - there is no problem installing any other script that I tested out, the problem is only with AbanteCart and it is getting to be quite irritating and should be rectified - please.
Thanks
Ron