jerseyjoe

Have you read the readme.txt file the is in the download? What is the name of your domain? I got it working, but I was trying to change somethings so I could post it along side an already built site, so now I have to start over again. One of my problems is that I wing alot of things, being a rookie and all, and then I forget exactly how I did it. Have you read the readme.txt file the is in the download? What is the name of your domain? I got it working, but I was trying to change somethings so I could post it along side an already built site, so now I have to start over again. One of my problems is that I wing alot of things, being a rookie and all, and then I forget exactly how I did it. Oh, my domain is www.providencebooksource.com I also have no idea how to control my directories and such, in my control panel from my hosting company....1and1 is the company. what does 1 and 1 tech support tell you?

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I suspect we can help you but in order to do so, we need to see what is going on. Right now your head is in the way. I mean, we don't have any details other than your URL, which before we even look, we know will tell us nothing. To help you we need to be able to reproduce what you have done so we can determine if there are errors or omisssions. Right now, the only info we have is you "installed it uploaded it, set the mysql " which obvously is not what happened - and certainly not in that order. Maybe you uploaded something and then installed it somehwre - but if you actually intend to say you installed the MySql after that, that's not possible because you can't install CC until after you create a MySQL Db. So let's go to the basics and take it step by step. You downloaded (what version, please?) and uploaded to (which folder on your server). What kind of server are you using? Apache? Windows? (I think GoDaddy offers both). Have you read and fiollowed the instructions in the readme.txt file that is packed inside the download? Did you have any pronblem with any particular step in those instructions? Did you go through CC's five installation screens?

Noiw try the edit while in Microsoft IE and see if that allows the edit.

I had the same problem. I usually operate in FireFox. But when I switched to Internet Explorer, the edits worked. No one else has reported the same cause and cure - but it's worth trying.

Have you read the readme.txt file the is in the download? What is the name of your domain?

Yes, I was thinking about that. I guess the solution is to provide blank fields on the printed form and tell the end customer to fill them in by hand before faxing. Thanks for the response. Anyone else?

I had a good meeting today with a prospective CubeCart client. He's asked for something I've never seen discussed here - but one that seems pretty simple. I'm here asking just in case there are issues I have not considered. He wants orders to become a filled-in faxable form that would include both the order details as well as his credit card info. The customer would printout the completed form and fax it. As an alternative, if his customer's computer has the ability to fax directly from the computer, he wants offer that as an option to the print out. As I see it, the fax form only needs be an edit of the mailable printable form that now exists . . . right? As for offering a choice between print / fax or direct fax, insight into relevant issues that should be considered would be welcome. This is a pizza shop that does a lot of catering into large office buildings in his area. In addition to pizzas he does a lot of platters, coffee setups for meetings, party spreads, salads, etc. The cart would not need a shipping module or payment gateway.

First let's make sure your server is ready and what tools are there. What kind of hsoting package do you have (RedHat Apache? Windows?) If you are not sure, what is the name of your hosting provider and I'll check out what they probably are providing.

You'll get a lot more help from more people if you keep the discussion on the open forums. As for your problem, I just checked and you are hosted by Yahoo. I don't know if Yahoo supports Cube Cart. Anyone confirm if there are CCs hosted on Yahoo? It may be that there are but I don't know of any. They have their own proprietary shopping cart and the days when everyone played nice together and shared toys on the Internet are long gone. This is not a problem with the Open Source Software and the smaller guys like CC, but I don't know of any of the 800-pound guerillas who lack a pretty blatant and selfish agenda. If you were using any of a few thousand competetive RedHat Apache hosters you would find that many offer cPanel in their hosting package. It makes setting up a database a three or four step process that requires you fill in an online form and hit"go."

At the moment, I'm on a bench in Madison Square Park and I haven't got time to go looking - but as I rceall there should be a file called pear.php in the upload/temp folder. If it does not exist (whixh is what I think the error msg is confirming, you can create one and then it can be written to. Good luck

Agreed - and I fixed the problem by re-installing. Please see my PM rto you e reinstalling mod.

I've tried that. The new pw is accepted but does not change the fact that neither I nor the site owner can log in using FF and only the owner (the Admin account created when the site was set up) can login via IE. As I said, I'm worried that this is the tip of the iceberg, signaling something that will cause problems further along.

Yep seems to work fine here too. The ~username access is a standard feature of shared hosting and usually the only way to access a site (using the host's nameserver) until the dns propogates. I'd recommend you now edit your original post to remove username identifying information. Leaving it there may ultimately prove a security risk as it is just one less variable needed for a hacker to attempt access. It was puzzling because the server was set up a week ago and appeared to have been fully proagated. Well, it's not a bug; it's an Internet. Oops - it is definitely not a DNS propagation issue. I can invoke it by opening the store through the ACP. And that act of logging into the ACP has its own set of problem. See: http://www.cubecart.com/site/forums/index....showtopic=18308 I'm concerned that this combo of weirdness is telling me that the installation is corrupt and has some unpleasant surpises further down the road if not addressed now before I spend much more time on skinng and mods, not to mention adding 1500 products. Suggestions, please?

Using FF, I can not log into ACP as the second Admin (which has super privileges). FF just flips back to the "no session" login page. The primary Admin account works fine. In MS/IE, again as secondary admin, I get what I can only describe as a "partial login." See the attachment. Note that it displays both the login as well as the menu. Note that except for the Navigation menu links, everything else is grayed out. Those two links work. But this is too weird for me to ignore. Anyone have ideas as to what's going on? (URL and the usual access codes available on PM resuest)

Yep seems to work fine here too. The ~username access is a standard feature of shared hosting and usually the only way to access a site (using the host's nameserver) until the dns propogates. I'd recommend you now edit your original post to remove username identifying information. Leaving it there may ultimately prove a security risk as it is just one less variable needed for a hacker to attempt access. It was puzzling because the server was set up a week ago and appeared to have been fully proagated. Well, it's not a bug; it's an Internet.

It's easy to find out - and I can anticpate the answer. In order for a CC store to work, the server has to be running something like Apache Red Hat or similar Operating Sytem - and have PHP and MySQL installed - and then finally - here's the killer - you have to access to the root of the server so you can install and manage the store. I don't see that MySpace would grant any third party root access for any reason at all, ever. To saitisy my curiousity about how MySopace pages are created, a quick look at the code in which MySpace pages are written revealed they are genreated in .CFM. Googling ".CFM" reveals it is, "An application development tool from Macromedia for writing Web pages that interact with databases. Instead of writing tedious CGI and Perl scripts, operations are coded in the ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML) which uses HTML-like tags embedded in the Web pages. The ColdFusion engine, which interfaces with a Windows-based Web server, interprets the codes, accesses the database and delivers the results as HTML pages for the Web browser. ColdFusion was originally developed by Allaire Corporation, Cambridge, MA, which merged with Macromedia in 2001." Note that ColdFusion runs on a Wndows server - end of story. But the good news is that there are a lot more hosting servers that would run CC than there are of the Windows kind.

Please go to: www.winterbottomsantiques.com Note the resulting URL. http://www.winterbottomsantiques.com/~username/index.php It is revealing the user name. It should not. Secondly, I'm having strange behavior at admin login. There are two admins, both correctly configured as top admins. But I cannot login as the second admin. I only have an hour of work in this project. I'm thinking that before I go any further I should just do a fresh installation. Comment - or does someone know what may be causing these problems?

While the wrench (for the benefit of anyone who may be a dyslexic perv, there's an "r" in that word) is being poked about in this particular area, I'm at a loss to find font where to define text colors for the regular boxes. I keep thinking it should be in either layout.css or style,css, but no joy. See: http://winterbottomsantiques.com The texts should mostly be FFFFFF (except for the shopping basket numbers which are red). Advice, please?

Based on the previous design and this one, you could call your skin shop The WOW Shop. I don't think that anyone who has been hanging around the CC forums, even for long, has seen anything like your stuff. Minor picky-picky. The banner is unnecessarily tall. Please consider moving the search box and log-in links up to about 50 pixels below the top, reduce the size of the font and cut the height of the banner to 1/3 it's present height. Keep in mind that the banner appears on every page. This banner is shouting at the top of each one. Once the visitors have arrived, that banner does nothing to keep them - and therefore wastes the opportunity to put something they might want to buy in front of them in that now-wasted space. After a few pages, even at 1/3 the height, visitors will not forget where they are. By reducing the banner your products will have less competition for the attention of the eye and viewers won't have are sense of being hovered over. Except for that WOW!!! Please stick around here and teach us how to do that stuff?

Second that. 3.08 has a few serious security issues and a couple of pesky bugs. Definitely go 3.010.

That sems to be the problem I was having. In the shopping cart, every item was duplicated but if I used the CC admin tool to remove one of the dupes they both disappeared. Go into your phpAdmin, open the Db, in the left hand menu that lists all the ables, click on CubeCart_inventory. When that comes up, look at the "browse" tab at the top. When you click on that you will see all the 5100 items - and their duplicates (assuming our problems are identical.) The problem arises because items in the Db are managed by their ID. The dupes have the identical ID. So if you remove one using the CC Admin, you are removing that ID - meaning both of them. In other words, the simplicity of CC Admin is unable to differentiate between them and treats them as a single product but expressed twice. (Making sense?) Now the trick is to remove the dupes. First of all, click on the column heading that will sort them so the dupes are in sequence. At this point you have at least two choices - and maybe someone else has more to suggest. 1) tediously go down the list checking every other product to tag the dupes, and then click delete at the bottom of the list. You can speed up that process a little by changing the number of rows that are displayed, for example, to 100. That means you'll only have to go through 51 screens (ugh) instead of the 150 that the 30-row default display would require. Maybe the better solution is the next. 2) export the table to an Excel file or a TXT file - and do the dupe deletions there or in some other program. If I had more time and wasn't pressed today by paid client needs, I probably could tell you how to do an auto delete of dupes while in one of those formats. For example, I build apps using FileMaker Pro which has a good auto-dupe eliminator that will run through the entire file and kill dupes in a few seconds. I then could export the results back to a clean TXT file. I would not be surprised if phpMyadmin has a dupe eliminator but I don't know where to invoke it. Anyone else suggest how to do an auto delete of dupes? And then, with the cleaned file back in TXT format, use the function "import from a text file" at the foot of the table screen (the one you see when you first slecet the table from the menu, before you click "browse) to import the cleaned file back into your CC Db. That should do it. Good luck.

In a private message I said I didn't think that your problem and mine had the same cause and cure, but now that I see your entire message, I think it may be. Mine was due to screwing around with the database tables, specifically cubecart_inventory. Does your hosting service give you access to phpMyAdmin? Joe

Higher resolution screens do not mean they use full screen windows. Those stats are very misleading. They also are not relevant to my point. The design you have can be delivered to both hi and low res users. You do not ned to chose between them.

Nice graphics, simple and therefore effective, layout. But have you looked at the site in 800 by 600 res? There are millions of potential customers who have their displays set for that. You can make your pages display well at higher res - yet also avoid the left to right scroll that confuses and turns off lower res users. Also, there's a lot of empty space in the 116px-high banner. A 100px-high version would be sleeker and display more of the selling area. Those coments aside, it's excellent work. I especially like the menu.