thanks don, i appreciate the response!
after a lot of hair pulling and head banging i have it working somewhat, although not working properly.
i am able to login and add items to the cart however it is acting very strange
1) when i am not logged in and add items to the cart and then attempt to login the items in the cart disappear and there are items that were previously in the cart (from yesterday)
3) even when i'm logged in and add items to the cart, when i checkout it still shows the 1 item that i had in there from yesterday
2) when i go to the store's homepage (while i am logged in) it shows the guest welcome screen
any ideas? or what i should look for?
here is the configure.php that i now have:
define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://www.inveniotechnology.com'); // eg, http://localhost - should not be empty for productive servers
define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'https://server6.totalchoicehosting.com'); // eg, https://localhost - should not be empty for productive servers
define('ENABLE_SSL', true); // secure webserver for checkout procedure?
define('HTTP_COOKIE_DOMAIN', 'www.inveniotechnology.com');
define('HTTPS_COOKIE_DOMAIN', 'server6.totalchoicehosting.com');
define('HTTP_COOKIE_PATH', '/store/');
define('HTTPS_COOKIE_PATH', '/~shulmdj/store/');
define('DIR_WS_HTTP_CATALOG', '/store/');
define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG', '/~shulmdj/store/');
many thanks,
dale