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Hey, glad that I was able to help. I didn't realize that you could use the server name for the ftp host. Well, duh. Thanks for that. Thanks but my out-of-town clients are within drive-and-return range. Have you ever seen the show "Desigining Women"? You remember the character Charlene? She was from a town in Missouri called Poplar Bluff. Well the town is real and about an hour and a half south of me. I was there yesterday with two clients. Then today I had to go 45 minutes southeast to work with two other clients. Anyway. My clients reach from Poplar Bluff to St. Louis and I'm kind of in the middle. I am able to do most of my work from the office here, but sometimes you just have to be onsite to get a project going (or completed)! Next week I get to go north, oh joy. Lianna

Good Call, KW! Man, it has been one of those weeks. I am writing my note right now and will get it to you this weekend. Thanks. Lianna

Nope, a link to phpMyAdmin, does prompt for a username and password, but requires the cpanel username and pass, not a db user/pass. Lianna

Ok, this is not correct....but you knew that. If the floridas domain name has not propagated, then you will need to use the IP address found right next to that account in the account list in WHM. Something like: Access: FTP FTP Host: 123.123.123.123 Host Directory: public_html Login: floridas Password: ********************* If the floridas domain has propagated, then you should be able to: Access: FTP FTP Host: ftp.floridasdomain.com Host Directory: public_html Login: floridas Password: ********************* Lianna PS: If these don't work, let me know. I have DW MX but have not used it to publish anything to TCH. I can test it for you though and get the exact settings.

*YAY* When you get a few extra minutes and if you feel like sharing, could you post here the information that is requested from oscommerce and the 'right' answers? I'm sure that you won't be the last to ask of oscommerce. Your proven install could be very helpful to someone else, too. Thanks. Lianna

Beth, Thank you very much for your honest review and we appreciate your business. (That's from the TotalChoice side of me.) Now, welcome to the wonderful world of Life-After-FeaturePrice, sister! I am also a survivor of *that other very lame host*. I came to TCH when it was *****. I was scared to death of being burned again and was very leary of the claims being made on FindMyHosting.com because they were all too good! So, I figured, why not? If they don't give me my money back when I'm not satisfied, I will have lost like $4? That's one pack of cigarettes that I didn't need to smoke anyway. Well, that was the beginning of a great and trusting relationship! While I still haven't quit smoking....I'm working on it ....not only did I never ask for my money back, but jumped into a reseller package and brought all of my clients over inside of my first 30 days. As for *that other very lame host*, they lose in more than one category. Support and just simple communication with their clients was the big miss with them. Second to that was the gall and odasity to *test while live*. I don't know how many times my site, mail or webmail was down, disrupted or even CHANGED without any warning whatsoever. They would test out scripts and new server apps on a live machine. So all of my clients' sites were impacted and of course I get yelled at for it. I'm not that hard to please and am pretty easily impressed, but TCH has completely won my heart. Family and Home are not just words from the salesman. They are real concepts here and practiced by real people. ...........blabbering on............ Anyway, thanks again. Welcome Home, Beth! Lianna

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Teehee. That means that you created a database! Tah-da! Oh, you mean what does all that jibberish translate to? Well, if you were actually writing the code to connect to the database, then that's the stuff you would need to include in your code. Chances are that oscommerce is going to create the code for you by asking some specific questions during its setup. Like: Host Server Name? localhost DB Name? asiapdp_linh It may even ask you if the tables in the database will be prefixed? Yes and that prefix will be linh_ There are two different codes given to you. One is for use with Perl and the other with PHP scripts. Hope that helps. Lianna

Sure, I can do that. ....provided that I remember to do that! LOL Please remind me if I somehow drop it, ok? Lianna

I'm on my way out of town for the day, but you can try the following: what do i put as the database server hostname? localhost Is the database called XMB1? yes, you may try yourusername_xmb1 Is my username XMB1 too? no, your cpanel username Sorry, I can't stick around and help. I'll be back this evening. Lianna

(Does anybody else think that's the ugliest 'winkie' face in the world?) I like that better. Lianna

Well, a cheaters way: Create a subdomain called webmail Setup a redirect to the secure path. Teehee. It works. Lianna

Elusive, Sorry, but your link makes no sense. I think it should be: http://foreverkiefer.elusive-dreams.net instead. Yes, it is painfully slow trying to connect. If I go to http://elusive-dreams.net, the page pops fairly quick. But when I go to http://elusive-dreams.net/foreverkiefer, again with the painfully slow stuff. So some things to check: 1. Is the subdomain created (foreverkiefer.elusive-dreams.net) 2. From cPanel File Manager, look in public_html to verify the existence of a folder called foreverkiefer. 3. From cPanel > Manage Subdomains, have you setup a redirect for the subdomain and if so to where? Should not be necessary to set up a redirect if it is going to public_html/foreverkiefer 4. What kind of page is in the foreverkiefer directory? Make a simple index.html file and place it there to test. If you have a php page or some such, there's a good chance that the code is causing the loss, not the subdomain setup. In other words, I need more information than you've given me here to try to troubleshoot this problem. Looks like you have some kind of loop going on and it can't find a place to land. Lianna

level3.test.stoverdatasystems.com is currently being redirected to Error: while opening /home/lstover/public_html/level3.test/.htaccess http://stoverdatasystems.com/test/level3/index.htm I see what it's trying to do. Do you? BRB Lianna EDIT - I'm back. Did you figure it out? See that by creating a thirdlevel domain (sub.sub.dom.com), cpanel thinks that the third and second should be combined into a single name for a second level domain. That's lear as mud, but here: I make 2nd level: test.stoverdatasystems.com and then apply no redirection, because I want it to use the folder that it creates (public_html/test/). Then, I create 3rd level: level3.test.stoverdatasystems.com and two things happen: 1. When it create the 3rd level domain, it created a folder in public_html, not in its 2nd level, public_html/test/ 2. When I try to redirect it to a folder that I manually created in public_html/test/, it bombs stating that there is an error trying to access the file "/public_html/level3.test/.htaccess " and proceeds to try to combine the level3.test name as a single entity. Of course the folder public_html/level3.test/ does not exist, so it will bomb. Does that give you any ideas? I imagine that cPanel is not properly handling the 3rd level domain. The concept is possible and used quite often (especially in gov organizations - go check out their email addresses like soso@city.state.us.gov which is a 3rd level domain). Anyway. Yep It can be worked but I think not giving you quite the result that you were hoping for. Lianna

Whoops. Hang on let me go do some testing......Off to the lab I go. Lianna

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Side Curiosity? Hope you don't mind me delving this topic a bit deeper.... How does Mailman store its users names and passwords? Is it a db or what? Are you using the Mailing list bi-directionally or are you the only one that can post to it (more like a newsletter)? The reason that I'm asking is that I wonder if Mailman is the right tool for the job here. Recently came across aMember - a membership /subscription based application. The Pro version will allow: The term product refers to your offering whether that be a paid or free membership area of your site. You can look into it at: http://www.cgi-central.net/scripts/amember/ There is a free version as well, but doesn't support the broadcast mailing. Lianna

Or, another idea? Customize the cPanel News with some appropriate links. The cPanel News area, for those that don't know, is where it currently says your domain name and your last login IP lookup. Like: That area can be customized by TCH to deliver whatever message, links, news, support options, etc. they wish to display there. Lianna

There ya go. Got it all fixed up. From now on though, you will need to use the following IP address instead of the one you were originally given in the welcome email. 66.246.87.127 You can now see the directory listing for http://slowthinkers.com Lianna

I see the problem. Hang on. Lianna

You're welcome. Lianna

Woohoo! Then you get to help everybody else!

Until I (or someone else) can get good step-by-steps put together for aMember installation, here are my notes. They are JUST NOTES. I jot things down as I go through so I don't forget where I've been. Maybe they will be of benefit to someone though. Download the .pdf documentation. It's "fairly" clear. This is not inclusive and should be used to help supplement the .pdf documentation, but my jotted notes: Create db and user for db in cpanel upload and extract amember chmod /data to 777 chmod /templates_c to 777 Create config.inc.php Create config_plugins.inc.php chmod both to 777 Run setup create directory to protect create product in admin create .htaccess file in protected directory create user through signup and test. These are just jottings so that I would remember what order to do it in. Please read the docs! Now, I don't even have ssh and wouldn't know what to do with it if I had it. So, this entire thing can be done within the capabilities of cpanel and cpanel's File Manager! Lianna

No, I'm sorry. As of January 27, 2003, we stopped taking payments via any method other than credit card. Lianna